Above me is hell ,its the infamous haunt of Sopwell House a workhouse for poor chefs misled by the head chef,ridiculed by the sous chef overworked by an internal management you never saw I have written to the manager several times about how much I hated his hotel and his ability to manage..never did get that reply.

Too continue this fourth and upsetting biographical blog I left the Gatwick hilton in 1993 late into the year I was called by an agency who recommended this place (never work anywhere an agency sends you to ,go to the interview and use your gut feelings) boy I walked into a minefield long hours a hot kitchen and a chef (paul reed I think his name was) who spent his time in his office looking at books and arranging his diary for any holidays the p**** was due.

I did well at first working on the meat section sweating away we got a michelin star back the night I was on cooking the main meat basically to order then passing the meat on (I only screwed u one piece of meat not bad I got to eat it I hadn’t eaten all day) ,the meat was passed to the front a chef garnished the plate another sauced it and the head chef looked at the sous chef who said take it.

19 hours later Im in my room tired but fired up I had been promoted to the health food bar or whatever its called now it’s been modernised since I last fed the England team and chatted to David Batty about Blackburn lol,this promotion was my reward for a good job they needed a decent chef in the health food bar.

the chefs I’d worked with were non too talkative and the ones in the health food bar were more relaxed maybe too relaxed,I did ok at first talked dirty to the waitress I only did that to fit in besides she started the dirty talk with the other chef who was popular my number 2 and my boss in the kitchen did the same.

unfortunatly being new this girl didnt take to me and I found myself under a verbal warning for sexual harrassment I was not happy at  I gess the girl really didnt like me I wasnt really that bad I was joking around if anything she was as bad as me and I was just trying to copy what the other two guys were doing.