Our pick of London's celebrity chef-backed restaurants
Have wossisname off the telly poach your egg
Who doesn't love a bit of celebrity spotting? It's quite the hobby in London. You will even see the eyes of the most puritanical cynic flash as Katie Price totters past on route to a cuticle emergency. It's in all of us.
So what fun to be able to combine this, a little, with an evening's dining.
When you attend a celebrity chef's restaurant - as well as the chance of an adrenaline releasing glimpse of a well-known chef through the kitchen swing doors - there's always the distinct possibility that as you tuck into your meal Jamie Oliver could've, just moments earlier, man-handled your sprouts. Figuratively speaking.
... and what greater dining treat could there be, than that?
Richard Corrigan’s credentials include a Michelin star, winning the BBC’s Great British Menu competition, and presenting his own cookery show on Ireland’s RTE One. He also runs two exceptional restaurants: Bentley’s Oyster Bar and Grill and Corrigan’s Mayfair, where he serves up gourmet British cuisine.
Before Heston, you could be forgiven that thinking molecular gastronomy had something to do with genetically modified produce, but as well as favouring experiments with liquid nitrogen, the wacky chef is particularly fond of digging deep into the history of food. At Dinner you’re more likely to find lamb soup cooked to a 1700s recipe than a pear foam.
Atul Kochhar has appeared on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen as well as hosted his own programme, Atul’s Spice Kitchen: Malaysia. He was the first Indian chef to receive a Michelin star, back when he was head chef at Tamarind. His modern Indianrestaurant Benares has held on to its Michelin star for eight years running.
Michel Roux Jr. has lent his expert opinion to MasterChef as well as having appeared in Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen. He also runs one of London’s most acclaimed restaurants, having taken over the reins from his father Albert.
