When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

The amount of customers who take pictures before they eat is insane.

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.

Very few restaurants do five services a day - breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail, theatre and dinner - and because of that we can offer something for everyone.