Simon Rimmer: Restauranteur, Chef and Presenter

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Simon Rimmer

Simon is probably best known as the co-presenter of Channel 4's Sunday Brunch.

Simon has presented a whole host of different TV programmes over the years, and he’s also written five very successful books and he regularly writes for food magazines.

He is a chef/owner of nine restaurants in the north west of England and one in Dubai. Many people may not know that Simon has a degree in fashion and textile design and actually used to be a textile designer and ceramic decorator.

*Desert Island Dish:

Glass of Billecart-Salmon Rose to start before moving on to Kingfisher lager

Indian banquet:

To start: tandoori fish, tandoori lamb chops, plain naan, samosas, onion bhajis,

Main course: chicken tikka masala, saag lamb, prawn madras, pilau rice, poppadoms,

Pudding: Ras Malai

Luxury item: limitless supply of books*

Don’t forget to head to www.desertislanddishes.co for the recipe I’ve created inspired by Simon’s choice of Desert Island Dishes.And you can find me on Instagram @madebymargie and twitter too but it’s a lot doing both isn’t it? So mainly instagam

I will see you next week, thanks for listening!

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0:44.4	further ado, here is today's episode. My guest today is Simon Rimmer. Simon is probably best
0:53.2	known as the co-presenter of Channel 4 Sunday brunch.
0:56.4	Simon has presented a whole host of different TV programs over the years, and he's also written
1:01.5	five very successful books, and he regularly writes for food magazines. He is the chef and owner of
1:07.3	nine restaurants in the northwest of England, and one in Dubai. Many people may not know
1:12.6	that Simon actually used to freelance as a textile designer and a ceramic decorator. Welcome, Simon.
1:19.3	Thank you. Who knew? I mean, I love the sound of a ceramic decorator. Well, you know, when I did a degree
1:26.6	in fashion textiles specialising in print. And obviously, when you do print, then it's any medium,
1:31.8	really. And I got friendly with some people in the ceramics department, and I did some
1:36.1	hand-decorated tableware. So I used to sell in Liberty's, Harrods, Harvey Nichols. Yeah.
1:43.5	Two shops in Osaka, Berndorf Goodman, in the States, and then loads of small shops.
1:47.3	So, yeah, it was brilliant.
1:49.3	And then when we started Greens, then we used to do bits of our own hand-decorated tableware.
1:55.2	That's so cool.
1:56.0	You weren't messing around.
1:57.0	Those are some pretty serious stockists.
1:58.9	Oh, yeah. around. Those are some pretty serious stockists. Yeah. So we are sitting in Greens in Manchester, which was the first restaurant in what would
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