Anyone see Big Chef Takes on Little Chef last night on Channel 4?
The roadside cafe and the Happy Eater chain were the height of gastronomic delight when I was a child, so seeing Heston Blumenthal try his hardest to revamp the menu and kick start a bit of life into the British standard was a funny and at times gripping show, although he was definitely taking the p*ss with some of the dishes like Lancashire Hotpot with sweetbreads and oysters!
Alas as with all these things, the firm and their “blue sky thinking”, “thinking outside the box” chief executive failed to get their website in order so when I went on during the show it had crashed!
Now the second part of the show is on tonight, so I hope they stick a few more 50ps in the meter and pump up the bandwidth because they have a great way of driving folks back into their restaurants here, and if people want to find their nearest branch or check out the new menu, then the web if the first place they’ll start.
