Nigel Haworth

1. What is your favourite restaurant?

Jamin, Paris (now closed, regrettably)

2. What is your favourite hotel?

Sharrow Bay, Ullswater, Cumbria

3. What is your favourite food/cuisine?

I haven't got one - I'll eat anything

4. What is your favourite drink?

Mild, a dark beer

5. Are there any foods/ingredients you refuse to eat or cook with? If so, why?

Ostrich, because my plates aren't big enough to serve it on

6. What flavour combinations do you detest?

Ones that don't work

7. Describe an eating-out experience that turned into a nightmare

Going to a restaurant where the food was so bad that my wife and kids wouldn't eat it. I knew the owners and was a little embarrassed, so I ended up trying to eat all the food that my wife and kids had left

8. What is your favourite holiday destination?

New York

9. What is the best film you have seen?

Pulp Fiction

10. What is your favourite book?

JR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

11. What sort of music do you like?

Whatever the boys in the kitchen lend me

12. What is your favourite prepared food product?

Salt and pepper spare ribs

13. Which person do you aspire to be like?

My father

14. Which chef do you admire most?

Joël Robuchon

15. What star sign are you?

Cancer

16. Describe yourself in five words or fewer

Dedicated, fussy and unreasonable

17. Reveal something personal about yourself

I used to sell cuddly toys door-to-door

18. Reveal your tips for keeping chefs' whites white

Wear a bibbed apron

19. Cast away on a desert island, what luxury would you take?

Sky Sports

20. Do you have a soul mate? If so, who is it and why?

My partner, Craig Bancroft, because he listens to me