The menu de degustation is the finest expression of avant-garde cooking.

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.