When You Cook Under Pressure You Trade

[molecular Gastronomy] Was A Great Trend, Because It Experimented With Food. The Benchmark Was [former Elbulli Head Chef] Ferran Adrià, And Now He Is No Longer There It Is Harder To Gauge.

It Has Always Stood For F***ing Great Food.

First Of All, For Me The Secret Is In The Ingredients. You Don't Need To Start Spending Fortunes On Organic Foods And Start Becoming Way Over Budget. The Better The Ingredient, The Littler That Needs Doing To It.

The Issue I Have Is That The Cooking Techniques Are Up For Questioning, Today More Than Ever Before. If You Waterbath Beef At 22-degrees For 12 Hours, It May Taste Fantastic, But If You Don't Cook Food At A High Enough Temperature, You Risk Not Killing The Bacteria. Things Like That Make Me Nervous Of Venturing Into It.

I Think When We Opened In 2001, It Was Holy Ground. There Was Nothing Here. Back Then, Being On The Dubai Creek Was An Amazing Position, And I Would Come One Or Two Times A Year, Max. Now It's So Different. The Travel Dilemma Has Disappeared And It Is So Easy To Get To Dubai. What Is It, Seven Hours From London? It's Pretty Easy.