No one saw the recession coming.
Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.
