However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you've brought the pan to the table.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

Bread Street Kitchen is a big operation, a unique beast, and it needs bedding in.

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

My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.