How to do to the new year the Tom Kerridge way (hangover optional)
Drinks, nibbles, a juicy sirloin, and an obscene trifle, the two Michelin-starred chefs are seeing out 2021 in style and you can too, he tells Damian Whitworth.
In the run-up to Christmas Tom Kerridge was one of the loudest voices in the hospitality industry calling for government support after advice to minimize socializing led to restaurants experiencing a sudden run of cancellations. During the pandemic he has also been one of the nimblest chefs, pouring his considerable energies into a range of fresh projects, from a TV series called Saving Britain’s Pubs to teaming up with the England football star Marcus Rashford to launch a social media home-cooking campaign. When restaurants were allowed to reopen in outdoor spaces in April Kerridge served diners at his Bar & Grill in the Corinthia Hotel in London on a roof area that had to be accessed through the back of a lift and involved setting.