In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.

We have never done anything in a cynical fake way

It's amazing. Long Island, I don't know really. It's quite a fascinating area.

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.