Nikesh Patel
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive
4.8 • 20.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Actor, ‘Starstruck’ star and fellow runaway on ‘Celebrity Hunted’ Nikesh Patel is this week’s guest diner. And James Acaster reveals when he very rude to Nikesh's wife, Nicola Thorp.
Nikesh Patel is currently starring in ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’ on Netflix. Watch it here.
Follow Nikesh on Instagram @inikeshpatel
Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 26 Feb.
Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcast
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And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.
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 | It's James A. Castor. I have an announcement to make. Cinema Goers Welcome is out on March 6th in cinemas nationwide. |
| 0:09.3 | It's my heckler's welcome show, but filmed in three different locations, Truro, Dublin and Northampton. |
| 0:15.9 | And it's all stuff that wasn't part of the actual Heckler's Welcome special. Some of it's the same material, but in a different location going differently, being heckled |
| 0:24.4 | differently under different circumstances. |
| 0:27.6 | So there's the special that is on HBO and Sky, and there is this cinema goers welcome |
| 0:33.2 | companion piece. |
| 0:35.9 | Anyway, March 6th, |
| 0:38.4 | cinema go is welcome. |
| 0:39.2 | In cinemas, |
| 0:40.7 | enjoy the podcast, |
| 0:41.6 | off menu. Welcome to the off-menu podcast, cooking the apples of conversation, adding the sugar of humour. |
| 1:01.9 | Why are you laughing? |
| 1:03.6 | Because there's a fizzy apple drink on the table. |
| 1:06.1 | It's not apple crumble, is it? |
| 1:07.2 | No, but I just think you've looked at the... |
| 1:09.5 | Yeah, well, how else am I going to do it? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.6 | We're on episode like hundreds and hundreds. Yeah. Hundreds and thousands, that's a good one. Anyways, apple crumble. That is egg gamble. My name is James Agaster. Together we own a dream restaurant. No, Paul, you spoiled the surprise now. Every single week, we invite it against. We don't have an apple crumble on the table. |
| 1:28.1 | And we ask them their favourite ever start, make or dessert, side dish and drink, not in that order. You spoiled the surprise now. Every single week we invite it again. We don't have an apple crumble on the tape. |
| 1:28.1 | And we ask them their favourite ever start, make or dessert. Side dish and drink, not in that order. And this week our guest is Nick Hesbattel. Nick Hesh Patel is a wonderful actor, James. He's been in many, many brilliant things. Starstruck. Yes. Wonderful series. and also he was on the run against us in hunted. |
| 1:45.9 | Not as an actor, as himself. |
| 1:47.6 | Yes, Wonderful series. And also he was on the run against us in hunted. Not as an actor, as himself. |
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