Jamie Oliver Catherine St
6 Catherine Street, WC2B 5JY. Meal for two plus drinks and service about £180. Open Monday to Sunday, noon10pm, jamieolivercatherinest.com
Wait, hang on, sorry. He actually took a £5.2 million payout that year while settling into his new £6 million Elizabethan pile. "I don't know if you guys have ever had a second chance," he said sombrely at Catherine St's launch, "but this is mine!" Given it's a second chance where Lloyd Webber is the landlord, there were plenty of dry eyes in the house. And yet Oliver helped change the way many of us see food. His recipes work. He's likeable, sincere, appealingly emotional. "It would make much more of a story, really," I said as we shivered up to the door, "if this were a rave review".
Oliver grew up in his parents' pub, was on the pass at 14, and Catherine St is serving food inspired by those days, and those that followed at the River Café, Fifteen and Barbecoa. "I don't want it to be cool. I want it to be predictable," he says.
Predictable is often throupled with safe and comfortable, and here there's a sense of all three. Black-and-white celebrity photographs fill the walls.
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