Table Talk: with Jeremy King

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🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy King, one half of the restaurateurs Corbin & King, is behind some of the most iconic restaurants in London, including the Ivy, the Delauney, and Fischers. In this episode, he talks about why he left banking for hospitality, how he redecorates restaurants according to their architectural influences, and people watching in his establishments.

Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to celebrity guests about their life story, through the food and drink that has come to define it. Listen to past episodes here.

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0:00.0	Just before you start listening to this podcast, a reminder that we have a special subscription offer.
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0:19.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Table Talk for Spectators' Food and Drink podcast.
0:24.3	I'm Lara Prendergast.
0:25.4	And I'm Olivia Potts.
0:26.7	And we're delighted to be joined by the restaurateur, Jeremy King.
0:30.0	The co-founder of Corbin and King, together with his business partner Chris Corbyn,
0:33.9	Jeremy has co-owned and created some of London's most iconic and cherished restaurants.
0:38.5	The Capriest, the Ivy, Jay Shiki, the Walsley, the De Launay, Zadelle, Colbert, Fishes, Belanger.
0:44.5	The list goes on, and their latest restaurant, Soutin, opened recently in St John's Wood.
0:49.3	Jeremy, thank you very much for joining us.
0:50.9	That's a pleasure. A very pleasure.
0:53.0	Jeremy, we're going to start where we always
0:54.8	start at the very beginning. You grew up in Somerset. Yes. Can you tell us what food was like for you
1:00.8	as a child at home? You know, the truth of the matter is I can't remember that much in the food
1:08.2	experience. You say I grew up in Somerset. In fact, we were quite,
1:12.9	I was born in Somerset and we ended up back in Somerset, but we were quite peripatetic in the, in the
1:19.5	interim. And I was thinking, when you said food memories, unfortunately, the first one for me
1:26.6	would be the day as a three-year-old,
1:29.5	we moved to Hertfordshire and we stopped by the roadside to have sandwiches. And the family
1:35.3	friend who was driving us had a ham sandwich. And of course you've got to remember, this was in the
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