Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we talk to Michelin-starred chef Sally Abe. She is the head chef at The Harwood Arms and previously worked at The Ledbury and Elystan Street. Brett Graham is a director at The Harwood Arms and Sally explains why it’s great to have him around for advice.Talking about the impa...
May 25, 2020•37 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we spoke to Adam Handling.It’s important to note that we spoke to Adam before the recent announcements regarding lockdown and the furlough extension.Adam is the chef owner of the Frog restaurant group, the AH restaurant group, Eve Bar, The Stag and Ugly Butterfly. His busine...
May 18, 2020•34 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we talk to Great British Menu finalist Roberta Hall-McCarron from Edinburgh’s The Little Chartroom.She talks about how the thought of cooking on TV made her feel physically sick but once she was in the competition she definitely wanted to win!We also discuss how she has reac...
May 11, 2020•35 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode I spoke to Great British Menu 2020 finalist Kerth Gumbs.Kerth is the head chef Shaun Rankins Ormer restaurant in Mayfair, he has previously worked for Tom Aikens, Joël Robuchon and Jason Atherton. We spoke to Kerth about the tough situation the hospitality industry is facing...
May 04, 2020•43 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode I talk to Kaori Simpson, chef owner of Harajuku Kitchen in Edinburgh.She started in kitchen’s as a child in Manila cleaning cuttlefish in her mum’s Japanese restaurant. Her journey to Scotland came after she studied international relations at Plymouth University and met her ...
Apr 27, 2020•37 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we catch up with Paul Wedgwood co-owner of the Wedgwood restaurant in Edinburgh.Paul started his career in the Lake District working in a variety of establishments from pubs and leisure parks to fine dining Michelin starred restaurants. He has been in Edinburgh for 13 years....
Apr 20, 2020•29 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we catch up with Tom Aikens.Due to the lock down we are recording out podcasts over the phone so we apologise if the quality does drop at times during the interview.We spoke to Tom about Coronavirus situation and the future of his restaurant Muse and the industry as a whole....
Apr 13, 2020•34 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we spoke to Jack Stein following the criticism of the Stein Group last week as The Daily Mail reported they had told staff across their restaurants that they would receive no pay from March 21st until government grants come through.Jack puts the record straight and tells the...
Apr 06, 2020•32 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UK's best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!This episode was recorded last month, so it offers a much-needed break from Coronavirus, at Mana in Manchester with chef owner Simon Martin.Simon has previously worked at The Chester Grosvenor, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Noma where he was for three years before opening Mana in 2018.He spo...
Mar 30, 2020•45 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!We talk to to Neil Bentinck from Skosh in York. We talk about the current coronavirus pandemic and the effect it is having on his business and the hospitality industry.Just a note that this was recorded before the latest government announcement about covering wages to allow employers to keep...
Mar 23, 2020•48 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode our deputy editor Tani, talks to David Bush, the head chef at The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.Born and bred in Essex, David started his career working at a hotel in Brentwood - the Mary Green manor - while he trained at college and for another four years afterwards.Du...
Mar 16, 2020•28 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we met up with Tony Parkin from Michelin-starred Tony Parkin at The Tudor Room.We had a special giest in the form of a pigeon with no toes in the pub so appolgies for that interruption towards the end of this interview! The Staff Canteen budget is pretty small so we took Tony...
Mar 09, 2020•47 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode we went to Hjem in Hexham in Northumberland to meet chef and owner Alex Nietosvuori.Originally from Sweden His cooking journey has led him to the north of England where his partner Ali is originally from.Clearly ambitious, Alex said aged 16 he wanted his own restaurant by the...
Mar 02, 2020•44 min
Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this episode of Grilled, we spoke to renowned chef Paul Ainsworth about his Padstow restaurant kingdom, and he told us how he put everything on the line to buy the freehold on Caffe Rojano's. If you enjoyed this we will be uploading a new episode each week - if you are not already become ...
Feb 24, 2020•50 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.Sam Carter is the chef owner of Restaurant 22 in Cambridge. Having worked in pubs before going to work at Maze in London, the chef intended to own a public establishment, not a restaurant. However, because of a scarcity of affordable property, he and his fiance Alexandra Olivier 'settled', s...
Feb 17, 2020•40 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!Thanks for listening to Grilled, we talk to the UKs best chefs every week so make sure you follow us so you don’t miss out on the latest episode.This week we chat to Edoardo Pellicano, the executive head chef of Mãos at the Blue Mountain School in Shoreditch, London.The son of a Southern Italian chef and a Singaporean food-lover, he has worked at renowned restaurants like Locanda Locatelli, trained with the likes of Leandro Carreira,...
Feb 10, 2020•36 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!Obsession 20 is on now at Michelin-starred Northcote and we caught up with executive chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen to find out about the annual event and why they do it.She also talks about women in the kitchen, how she maintains a good environment for her own brigade and what has kept her at Northcote for over 15 years. Interestingly, Lisa has a shellfish allergy, so she tells us how she gets around that as a chef and gives her thoughts o...
Feb 03, 2020•42 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!Chef Ben Wilkinson didn't come to The Cottage in the Wood expecting to earn a Michelin star.A fortnight turned into a permanent position as the person he came to replace at the restaurant tucked away in the depths of the Lake District's forest of Whinlatter never showed up. He eventually stepped up to the head chef position when his predecessor left to found a family.And a year later, his invitation to the awards ceremony came in the...
Jan 27, 2020•39 min
Thanks for downloading Grilled, please give us a follow on SoundCloud so you don’t miss a single episode.For this podcast we spoke to Skye Gyngell, chef patron of Somerset House restaurant, Spring. We had a great chat about how chefs can make their kitchens sustainable - from reducing waste and reducing their use of single-use plastics to cooking with responsibly-sourced produce.We upload a new podcast every week, subscribe if you want to tune in: www.thestaffcanteen.com/index/registerNothing in...
Jan 20, 2020•38 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!This episode of grilled is sponsored by Rational, your leading provider in multifunctional hot food preparation equipment. Register now for a free rational live demo at www.rational-online.comWelcome to the first episode of the second series of Grilled. Our first guests of 2020 are Jason Atherton and Paul Walsh. They talk to The Staff Canteen’s Mark Morris about their careers and working together for six years plus their latest proje...
Jan 13, 2020•47 min
Thanks for downloading Grilled, please give us a follow on soundcloud so you don’t miss an episode.This is our final episode of the series so if this is your first time listening you’ll be happy to know there are 24 more episodes for you to go and enjoy. We’ll be back in the New Year with series 2.For this final podcast we went to Adam’s in Birmingham to talk to head chef Tom Shepherd.He told The Staff Canteen exclusively that he is leaving this month to go and open his first solo venture, liste...
Dec 23, 2019•48 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!In this speecial episode we chat to winner of MasterChef: The Professionals 2019, Stu Deeley.Stu is the head chef at The Wilderness in Birmingham but he will be leaving at the end of this year to open his own place.He spoke to us about winning MasterChef and why he wanted to take part, he talks us through his career and workinf with Luke Tipping, Nathan Eades and Matt Cheal at Simpsons plus he quotes Glyn Purnell on foraging in Birmi...
Dec 20, 2019•44 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!in this episode founder Mark Morris talks to Michelin-starred chef Alex Bond.Alex is the owner of Alchemilla in Nottingham, he was awarded the first star of the Michelin Guide 2020 when the guide turned up at his restaurant three days ahead of the launch of the official guide and surprised him and his team – social media went into melt down!He previously worked for Sat Bains before opening his own solo venture in 2017 – the restauran...
Dec 09, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!Matt Gillan is the Chef Director of Heritage restaurant, he talks to us about why he left Pike and Pine, his experience with Kickstarter and his new venture.He has lived and worked in rural Sussex for the last 10 years, he was previously at Pike and Pine in Brighton and held a Michelin star at The Pass. He has appeared on Saturday Kitchen, Yes Chef and the Great British Menu, where he successfully managed to get his main course dish ...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!Lee Westcott from Pensons restaurant talks to The Staff Canteen about finally getting his hands on a Michelin star, he talks about why he didn't get one at Typing Room and wether it's easier outside of London.He discusses his first experience of shooting a deer and how it made him feel - he was suprised that the expereince made him sad and he couldn't eat the meat.But he enjoys getting in full animals to butcher with his team and he ...
Nov 25, 2019•43 min
Please give us a follow and rate us so more people can find us!As part of vegan month The Staff Canteen, in association with Hellmann's Vegan Mayonnaise, hosted a live chat with chefs Kirk Haworth and Jamie Park.Kirk, chef owner of Plates in London, practises a vegan diet after contracting Lyme Disease. His menu is completely plant based but he admits ten years ago he wouldn't have had a clue where to start when creating a vegan menu.Jamie Park is the head chef of The Frog in Hoxton. They offer ...
Nov 18, 2019•31 min
Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari are the joint chef owners of Caractère. They opened the Notting Hill restaurant last year - after almost two years of preparation - with a concept menu reflecting their French and Italian origins. We caught up with them to talk about the influential figures that set them on the path to success, the implications of owning a restaurant as a married couple, and what it means to be the youngest chef in a family of gastronomes. Both Diego and Emily started working in kitc...
Nov 11, 2019•21 min
George Farrugia is the head chef at the two AA-Rosettes Fenchurch Restaurant at the top of London's 'Walkie Talkie' building.The Mancunian chef got a university degree in law before shifting his gaze to the kitchen. He learnt to cook with some of the best French chefs around: first with Pierre Koffman at Koffman's, then with Éric Chavot at Brasserie Chavot, before becoming the head chef at Bob Bob Ricard. We spoke to George about how he caters for the eclectic clientele at Fenchurch and how his ...
Nov 05, 2019•21 min
In this episode we met Josh Niland, Australian chef and auther of the book which is the latest craze sweeping through the UK’s kitchen’s. The Whole Fish is a detailed insight into Josh’s ‘no waste’ philosophy. He wants people to look at a fish beyond the fillet and to do this he has written a book which inspires chefs and home cooks to push the boundaries creatively and technically when it comes to working with fish.We met Josh for lunch at Mien Tay in Battersea, it was a busy lunch service so e...
Oct 28, 2019•50 min
Paul Foster, chef owner of Michelin-starred Salt, talks to The Staff Canteen about his own podcast, The Night Cap. He also discusses how customers expectations chnage when you recieve a Michelin star, why some chefs are crap at tasting menus and which chef would be his top guest on the podcast if he could have anyone. If you enjoyed this we will be uploading a new episode each week - if you are not already become a member of The Staff Canteen and keep up to date: https://www.thestaffcanteen.com/...
Oct 21, 2019•58 min
