Contents News & Opinion
7 Steigenberger to operate new luxury hotel at the Great Scotland Yard 8 News in brief The week’s top stories 14 Week in hospitality 16 Review of reviews What the papers say
22 Viewpoint Mark Linehan asks what a living wage really means
7 Chef 24 More online
www.thecaterer.com 44 Business
24 The Caterer interview Hugh Taylor, chief executive of Michels & Taylor
Public sector focus
28 School of fish The creative cooks ensuring fish is top of school lunch menus 34 A day in the life of a busy care home cook
T Crowd-pleaser After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Burnt Truffle has finally
opened its doors. Janie Manzoori-Stamford speaks to Gary Usher about the pressures of opening restaurant number two
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he Caterer’s interview with Gary Usher was rather appropriately arranged via direct message on Twitter, arguably the
chef’s favourite method of communication. Dates were negotiated, train tickets from Lon- don to Chester were booked and Usher offered to cook for me ahead of our chat. The interview that followed lasted more than an hour and a half, but it was only as the conversation drew to a close that he thought to ask what it was all for. Had it really not occurred to Usher that the
hotly anticipated opening of his crowdfunded second restaurant Burnt Truffle might be the perfect excuse for a catch-up? Genuinely not, it would seem. Usher is the man behind restaurant Sticky
Walnut’s Twitter timeline, which features gems such as last week’s: “We're number 15 in the country on the Square Meal list. Sorry to anyone who feels we shouldn’t be there. I don't fucking ask to be on them,” and this wonderfully sar- castic riposte to a vitriolic TripAdvisor reviewer: “We’re so rude at Sticky that once a guest gets back to their table from visiting the toilet, we walk past the table pinching our nose.” One might imagine that such a character
might carry himself with swagger. But while Usher is undoubtedly charming, his manner when we meet is surprisingly self-deprecating. Any assumption that he might be a shining beacon of confidence, which some might sug- gest is a hair’s breadth away from arrogance, is undoubtedly mistaken.
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36 LACA 2015 round-up All the news from the Lead Association for Catering in Education Main Event in Birmingham
Chef
44 Crowd-pleaser Gary Usher talks about the pressures of opening Burnt Truffle
52 Recipe of the week Cherry and almond crumble cake from Summer Berries & Autumn Fruits
56 Products
54 Product news What’s happening in the world of suppliers 56 Cocoa power Upcoming chocolate trends
People 52
64 This much I know Paul Elliot, executive chef at the Rag private members’ club, London
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