The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

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

How many chefs do we know that prefer cooking for chefs than they do customers, yet customers are returning repeatedly and it's the level of support that determines the level of success that restaurant will have.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Why can't it be a curriculum? Why can't it be a life skill that they learn just to look after themselves in terms of a healthy way of eating? I think we need to shake up that whole curriculum and give them a little bit more of a lifestyle early on, before they leave school at 18.

Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.