I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

In any situation, location is crucial.

Eating out doesn't have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it's badly done.

[Long Island] is buoyant, it's on the outskirts of Manhattan, and so they have access to phenomenal restaurants.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

We have never done anything in a cynical fake way

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.