Greg James
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Radio 1 DJ Greg James is this week’s dream guest in the Dream Restaurant. And James calls in to the radio…
Greg James’s book ‘All the Best for the Future: Growing Up Without Growing Old’ is out now. Buy it here.
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Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 2 Oct.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
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Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.
Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.
Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.
Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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| 0:00.0 | James, huge news from the world of off-menu and indeed the world of the world. |
| 0:05.7 | Yes. Ever heard of the Royal Albert Hall? I have. We've done live shows there and guess what? |
| 0:10.8 | We're doing more live shows there next year. Sure, a lot of them are sold out already, but we thought, |
| 0:16.0 | hey, throw these guys a bone. Let's put on one final Royal Albert Hall show in that run. |
| 0:21.9 | The show will be on Monday the 16th of March. It's going to be a tasting menu, a returning guest. |
| 0:27.0 | Coming back, receiving the menu of another previous guest. Those shows have been a lot of fun. |
| 0:31.3 | We cannot wait to do them live. Who will we pull out of our little magic bag? |
| 0:35.6 | You'll have to come along on the 16th of March to find out. |
| 0:39.0 | Get your tickets from Royal Alberthall.com or offmenupodcast.com. |
| 0:44.7 | Today's episode of Off Menu is brought to you by Lint Excellence, delicious dark chocolate |
| 0:49.0 | expertly crafted by the Lint Master Chocolatiers. Man, if I could swap jobs with anyone, |
| 0:54.4 | it would be the Lint Master Chocolatier. I've always admired their precision and passionate. Those folks are the real deal. We should host one of them on our podcast. Absolutely. I think the Lint Master Chocolatiers would be amazing on the pod. I admire how they artfully combine the highest quality cocoa with the finest ingredients to bring out the very best in dark chocolate. |
| 1:11.6 | And it's not just chocolate. |
| 1:12.8 | It's pure craftsmanship. |
| 1:14.1 | Hey, you know better. combine the highest quality cocoa with the finest ingredients to bring out the very best in dark |
| 1:10.8 | chocolate. And it's not just chocolate. It's pure craftsmanship. Hey, you know better than anyone, Ed. |
| 1:15.6 | I love dark chocolate. I'm a dark chocolate kind of guy. And Lent Excellence is my go-to. |
| 1:20.7 | It's a richer, more flavourful, fine dark chocolate. And when you snap off a square, |
| 1:26.4 | oh, that's satisfying crisp snap. It's indulgence done right. |
| 1:31.5 | And what about the flavors, James? Not only do they have the wonderfully fine dark chocolate itself, |
| 1:35.9 | but then you've got the most incredible, brilliant flavors, like a sprinkling of their finest |
| 1:40.4 | hand-harvested sea salt, or that sophisticated combo of crispy almond slivers and zesty |
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