If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I'm actually not really a breakfast person.

We launched it in the London branch - phenomenal sausages, incredible eggs, homemade baked beans, black pudding - and it's something I wanted to bring to Dubai.