Richard E. Grant: Nigella recommends restaurants to me! Take your holiday food and drink seriously
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Be honest... do you pick your holiday destination based on the food you can eat there? You’re in good company – that’s just what Richard E. Grant does!
Welcome to The Happy Place Guide To Holidays! In this chat – brought to you by British Airways Holidays – Fearne and Richard share their thoughts on how to take your holiday food and drink more seriously, including asking mates (Nigella Lawson, if you’re Richard!) for recommendations, looking for restaurants with small menus, and testing ingredient quality via a Caesar salad starter.
They also get into a heated debate about whether perusing the aisles of a foreign supermarket is the best way, or the worst way, to spend your holiday! And Richard offers to pack Fearne’s suitcase for a very specific reason...
Plus, Richard explores why grieving can make us more likely to notice the little joys in life, as well as wondering if we all need praise and accolades to some extent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Happy Place Guide to Holidays, brought to you by British Airways Holidays. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Fern Cotton and today I'm chatting to Richard E. Grant. |
| 0:11.4 | There's a restaurant called La Petit Maison in Nice, right on the seafront, and they, off-menu, have a baguette that is filled with butter, melted butter, and stuffed with black, shaved black truffle. |
| 0:28.7 | I've never eaten anything that is quite as good. You have to take out four mortgages and bribe the woman who runs this restaurant, but that is, that is |
| 0:39.2 | somewhere I would go to. So this is, of course, happy place, but maybe a little sunnier, a little warmer |
| 0:45.5 | than your regular episodes. This is the Happy Place Guide to Holidays, an exclusive mini-series |
| 0:51.8 | brought to you by British Airways Holidays. |
| 0:57.1 | They're all about helping you take your holidays more seriously. |
| 1:01.1 | And this series is all about making the most of our travels. |
| 1:04.9 | In each episode, we're getting to grips with the things that I and you lot, |
| 1:08.7 | according to British Airways Holidays, love most about going on holiday. |
| 1:12.9 | Things like getting to actually read a book uninterrupted. |
| 1:18.8 | Oh, can you imagine? Discovering new passions and taking time out for some much needed self-care. |
| 1:24.8 | Today, oh boy, we are going to get stuck in to a real treat of a topic, food and drink. |
| 1:28.5 | And I know this chat is going to resonate with so many of you because according to a recent UGov survey commissioned by British Airways holidays, 69% of us agree that |
| 1:34.3 | food is an important factor in picking where we want to go on holiday. I wonder if you're one of |
| 1:40.5 | these people who properly crafts their entire itinerary around finding local specialities |
| 1:47.1 | and viral dishes. High chance of the latter given 40% of you have tried a dish on your travels |
| 1:52.7 | that was inspired by something you saw on social media. I'm totally with you. I'm more than happy |
| 1:58.6 | to put the research ahead of time to make sure I'm |
| 2:01.1 | finding the most delicious food while I'm away. And I know today's guest, the delectable Richard E. |
| 2:08.0 | Grant, feels the same. Now, we had this chat a couple of weeks ago. And can I just say, Richard is |
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