Month: November 2017

You wouldn’t have thought Michael Jackson would have got stuck into haggis and deep-fried Mars bars during his brief love affair with Scotland. And you’re right, he didn’t. But he…

A chef and a waitress have reportedly found themselves in hot water for romping on the lawn at Sandhurst – in full view of summer party-goers. The pair allegedly got…

A chef has told how he fought off a man in a gorilla suit trying to rob his restaurant. Scott Sanders was taking a bag of rubbish out to the…

By ‘eck. That bloooody James Martin has slammed a hornets’ nest into a hedge and they’re all now after his sticky Parkin cake. All I can say is it couldn’t…

Keith Floyd once said if he were to die tomorrow, he’d choose oysters for his last meal. And as it turned out, he did. The legendary TV cook’s last gourmet…

Keith Floyd’s life was a chaotic affair, so perhaps it’s fitting that confusion surrounds his funeral too. The TV cook parted with his long-term manager Stan Green some 15 month…

On my last blog, I wrote about the confusion over Keith Floyd’s funeral arrangements. Now it turns out he is to be cremated in a banana leaf coffin in Bristol,…

TV cook James Martin has already boasted about how he likes watching the look of “sheer terror” on cyclists’ faces as he forces them into hedgerows. Now he has his…

On the whole, we had a fairly good relationship with the ‘Dereks’ on front-of-house. The main problem was Keira the bar manager, an Irish woman in her forties, with braided…

John Burton Race must be wondering when his problems will end. Months after going bankrupt and a costly divorce, the TV chef has been arrested and charged with drink driving.…

The suffocating claustrophobia of the kitchen was getting to me. Whenever I could snatch an hour or two away in the idle period between lunch and evening service, I’d head…

A Michelin-starred restaurant has temporarily shut its doors after 80 diners became ill. Several members of staff at The Star Inn, in Harome, North Yorkshire, have also been struck down…

We were half-way through lunch service when Liz, the restaurant manager, came waddling into the kitchen like an asthmatic hippo. The only time I’d seen her move quickly, was to…

The confit chicken terrine was the most ‘cheffy’ recipe on my starters menu, and therefore the most time consuming. Because of the time they took, once I was half-way through…

As soon as I stopped working, the tiredness set in and the chest infection that had been brewing turned into full-blown gammon flu (it started off as swine flu, but…

An article I wrote for Khmer 440… The worst service I ever had was in London’s Chinatown. There was a cloudburst and then heavy rain so I scurried into one…

There is a book called The Art Of Simple French Cookery by Alexander Watt, a notorious gourmet who spent much of his life lounging around in Gallic restaurants, which perfectly…

There is a view in Asia that famous fast food brands from the West are subjected to more rigorous food health standards than their Asian competitors. There is apparently a…

A French restaurant in Catford, south London, faces closure after allegations of customers having sex on the premises, brawling, drug use, and people defecating outside the building.Le Bourgeois, situated under…

It says 8 per cent more beef on the Tesco Everyday Value Beef Burgers box, and promises no artificial preservatives, flavours or colours. But what Tesco doesn’t tell you is…