I’d been talking to Richard Corrigan about working together
“I liked him, and it was real. It was about food. I felt like I would get back to cooking.”
Richard came up with a deal, a partnership, and we shook hands in his front room. Although I still didn’t know what we were going to be doing together, because he was keeping a lot of things in the air. In the end I went to give his sous chef Malcolm a hand as he was just opening a new place. Corrigan had been trying to keep me away from Malcolm, because Malcolm was a nut case. Anyway, I met this famous nut job, Malcolm, who was manic, and mental. We got on like a house on fire. We ended up like brothers through my whole time with Corrigan. We’re still really good mates. Without Malcolm, I couldn’t have opened The West House.