The Clink - Revisited
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Sheila goes behind bars to visit the most popular restaurant in Cardiff, The Clink, which is run by prisoners.
Ten years ago Al Crisci was a winner at the BBC Food and Farming Awards for his work at High Down prison. At the ceremony he announced that he was going to open a restaurant in the prison which would be run by inmates and would serve high end food to the paying public. Now there are currently three prison restaurants across the country, with a fourth about to open in HMP Styal.
Sheila visits The Clink Restaurant on the site of HMP Cardiff which has recently been voted the top restaurant in the city by Tripadvisor. She speaks with inmates and ex-prisoners about working in a restaurant and whether this model can help reduce prison re-offender rates.
Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma Weatherill.
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| 0:45.0 | The other week I went to a restaurant that's just been voted the top eating place in Cardiff. |
| 0:51.0 | According to the mail a restaurant in a prison where the dishes are cooked and served by India. Cardiff. open to the public two years ago. It's been rated top on TripAdvisor out of 946 places. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a restaurant run by inmates on the site of Her Majesty's Prison Cardiff, |
| 1:11.0 | which might not sound like the most inviting place for a |
| 1:14.2 | glamorous night out. Well, we can see over the wall now. There we are. Klink |
| 1:18.9 | restaurant. But we've been following the story of the Klink for the past decade as it's grown from idea to reality to success. |
| 1:27.0 | The man behind it is Al Krizky. |
| 1:29.0 | Al-Krizky. |
| 1:30.0 | Al-I-Sis is so different. |
| 1:32.0 | Have you not been here? |
| 1:34.0 | Outside the building is plain red brick. |
| 1:37.0 | Inside is all high style. |
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