Robert Clayton

1. Name your favourite restaurant?

Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Great Milton

2. Name your favourite hotel?

Malmaison, Glasgow

3.What is your favourite food/cuisine?

Thai food - I had a Thai friend at college who used to cook "proper" Thai meals

4. What is your favourite drink?

Guinness

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

Tinned anchovies. I fell ill once after eating tinned anchovies, and have never had them since

6. What flavour combinations do you detest?

Red pepper sorbet. A chef who used to work here made one once and every sorbet that was ordered soon returned to the kitchen. It was horrible.

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

When I was younger I ate a pizza that was so appalling, uncooked and soggy that I walked out and refused to pay the bill, having not eaten it. I was stopped by the police and forced to pay

8. What is your favourite holiday destination?

Austria - skiing has to be top of my list

9. What is the best film you have seen?

I'm a self-confessed movie junkie so it is impossible to decide on just one favourite

10. What is your favourite book?

The Firm by John Grisham

11. What sort of music do you like?

U2

12. Who is your favourite supplier of the moment?

Mike Morph - Herbs & Vegetables (Tel: 01275 818764) Totally brilliant produce. Loyal and always there when I need him

13. What is your favourite prepared food product?

Fruit purées from Western Food Brokers (Tel: 01761 411999)

14. Who would be in your ultimate "fantasy brigade"?

So long as I had a full brigade who could cook - I don't care

15. Which chef do you most admire?

Nico Ladenis

16. What star sign are you?

On the cusp - Cancer and Leo

17. Describe yourself in five words

Happy, motivated, achiever, fiery, perfectionist

18. Reveal something personal about yourself

I am an obsessive cleaner