Ep. 63 – ALEX POLIZZI – Checking The Mattress Covers And Other Hotel Tips – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to hotelier and TV presenter Alex Polizzi. Tim and Alex discuss how she began in both the hospitality and TV industry, the intricacies of the hotel starring system, and working with Marco Pierre White. Alex also tells Tim what makes a great hotel and Tim and Alex chat about what they both look for when they book one.

Alex’s new show Peyton and Polizzi’s Restaurant Rescue is on Channel 5, on Wednesdays at 9pm.

If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy

And you can find Alex Polizzi on Twitter here
@alex_polizzi_

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast.
0:02.0	This morning's special guest, actually this afternoon, isn't it?
0:06.0	Is Alex Polizzi, welcome to my kitchen. Do you like it?
0:09.0	Yes, I love your house.
0:10.0	Thank you very much.
0:11.0	This is the first time we're ever filming it.
0:13.0	I feel very honored.
0:15.0	Yeah, it could work.
0:16.0	Thank you.
0:17.0	Now, all my guests always buy a present. I didn't know what to get you because I often buy people wine or food and things like that.
0:22.9	But I was in a really lovely deli and I saw these.
0:26.9	Amarishi biscuits.
0:27.8	Is that what they were?
0:28.7	So I didn't know what they were.
0:30.4	But I just thought they looked nice because they were all individually wrapped.
0:33.9	So that's your present.
0:34.7	But I said to the person who served me, what are these?
0:37.8	And they went, I don't know. And this is a wonderful brand. And Brutie Buoni means ugly but
0:43.4	delicious. Wow. Do you like those? Have I done well? You've done so. Thank you.
0:49.4	Excellent. So for anyone who doesn't know who you are, which everyone knows who you are, can you
0:53.5	expect you come from a long line of hoteliers and restaurateurs and things, don't you?
0:58.0	So I'm the third line, a third generation of my family who are involved in the hospitality business.
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