At Greedy Gordons, Steve’s been able to call on his extensive
experience and Italian heritage to delight diners after an authentic alfresco dining experience at T e Red Lion, which will host a range of regular weekly events and live entertainment throughout the summer. Steve’s newly designed menu includes everything from home-
made smoked Italian sauces to hand-made focaccia bread and piadina fl atbreads to Italian burgers and all are his own recipes, with everything made fresh from scratch. Regarding his new Greedy Gordons role, Steve said: “T e posi-
tion is varied; I could be over at T e Snooty Fox cooking lobsters or the trio of pork tasting dish before being back at T e Red Lion creating the extensive Italian sharing boards - it’s a challenge but I am really enjoying it. “It is giving everybody pleasure, when you fi nish the night and
everyone has gone away happy, you know you’ve done a good job and that’s the most rewarding thing about it.”
For more information or to make a booking at T e Red Lion visit
https://redlioncranford.co.uk/
Numerous famous faces savoured Steve’s creations when he
worked at Langan’s, then part owned by actor Michael Caine, and which was popular with an array of Hollywood stars, before he made the move to another popular celebrity haunt, Quaglino’s, where he cooked for the royals and stars of stage and screen. Steve’s soared throughout his hospitality career after having
started off washing dishes in a small Northamptonshire village pub at the age of 14. After attending Tresham Catering College in Corby, he landed his fi rst professional job in London at the world famous Langan’s Brasserie. Cooking for the rich and famous became a reality after Steve’s
ambition and initiative to make his hospitality mark paid off follow- ing a college trip to the capital which included a lunch at Langan’s. Steve said: “While we were there I asked if there were any positions available, I applied and got in, working as a commis chef to start with. “Working in a professional kitchen at 18 and moving to London
was a bit scary but it was all good. Langan’s was a great place to learn - you had to speed up as you were doing meals for 400 people a night. T ere were diff erent celebrities dining there every day. T e paparazzi were always waiting outside because of all the celebrities who dined there regularly. “I also worked at Quaglino’s where we’d have a thousand people
a day dining. T at was also full of famous people, including Princess Diana, and during my career I’ve cooked for the Queen Mother, Tom Cruise, Steve Martin and many more famous faces.” While Steve has worked in numerous prestigious places,
including Nicole’s, Nicole Farhi’s brasserie in Mayfair and was head chef at Covent Garden’s PJ’s restaurant, when deciding to start their family, the now father-of-two Steve and his wife returned to his native Northamptonshire, where he fulfi lled his long-held ambition of opening his fi rst restaurant in Northampton called Steven Bott at Kettering Road. In the ensuing 22 years Steve’s purchased or run restaurants
in Stoke Bruerne, where he owned Bruernes Lock; worked at T e World’s End in Ecton as well as at Shearsby Bath restaurant and wed- ding venue in neighbouring Leicestershire, where he was head chef. T e culinary couple also ran T e Italian Market Kitchen restaurant in Rothwell for eight years.
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