Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it.

We have never done anything in a cynical fake way

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

A lot of people think that I am only in town when I'm doing the publicity circuit, but I actually come [Bread Street] regularly. I just don't publicise it.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.