Heston Blumenthal

Well, you'll get lured into that.

I went to a dinner, I went to a place, it was Heston Blumenthal's place.

I don't go to big restaurants a lot, but I went in, I was there with a few of us and they said, okay.

So I was like,

so we didn't because we were away but I was a bit gutted because it looked amazing did you go on that one

yes it was amazing so I think he trained with Heston Blumenthal so his food's very theatrical and always has like a theme like a you know Roald Dahl books or something like that so that was amazing but yeah I mean I'm trying to think where else I've been.

My absolute favourite dish, weirdly, was at a little cafe in Bath called the Green Rocket Cafe.

We

So there's pressure already in the tax debate around the hospitality sector.

The likes of Green King, Fuller's, Wetherspoons and individual chefs, including Tom Kerridge, Angela Hartnett and Heston Blumenthal, have all signed this letter urging Mr Burnham to make good on his earlier statement Suggestion that VAT is too high in the hospitality sector.

Of course, the sector itself has been somewhat clobbered in the first two budgets of the Labour government.

The first one in 2024 increased by about £2 billion the national living wage.

I cooked a chili con carne, and it was off the hook.

Oh, did you see Heston Blumenthal's In Search of Perfection?

Do you know he-

He is brilliant

... didn't-- Is he?

Oh, he's so good, Heston Blumenthal.

But he's, he's the, the scientist of the chef world.

Is that fair?

Who

did Heston Blumenthal work for? Right.

Kind of a pretty good chef.

Yeah.

And that was one of the best decisions I made at that gig, because I went into the kitchen, did some stuff for those chefs, and the chef was very high up.

He used to work for Heston Blumenthal, and then he went on and worked with Gordon, and when they wanted entertainment in London... uh they said oh we know this amazing guy you should get him in so it wasn't gordon who phoned me it was one of his his uh his people and i went in and and that was the so literally i can see where that came from just by me going in the kitchen and doing magic for someone so you never know where some of these opportunities come from and then you know since that i've so i work at bread street kitchen which is the original one is near st paul's cathedral I used to do every other Sunday or one Sunday a month and two Sundays in a month and at some point it was every Sunday.

And then it became sort of more seasonal and then they moved me to other restaurants and Lucky Cat in Mayfair, which I love working there because I always sort of get fed as well at the gig.

It's nice, you know, from going from a steak or beef wellington to, you know, really nice sushi and cocktails.