If everyone could just cook properly I wouldn't have a problem.

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.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

It has always stood for f***ing great food.

I think when we opened in 2001, it was holy ground. There was nothing here. Back then, being on the Dubai Creek was an amazing position, and I would come one or two times a year, max. Now it's so different. The travel dilemma has disappeared and it is so easy to get to Dubai. What is it, seven hours from London? It's pretty easy.