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Kitchen scramble tips rock you1/21/2024 Jon Spiteri with his children Fin, Lorcan and Molly at the brothers’ restaurant Caravel on Father’s Day. But everyone is a bit calmer these days.” “It was work and then go to El Camion until 3am, then to someone’s house and then get back into work at 9am and do it all again. “When I worked at Quo Vadis it was in Soho so there was a lot of that stuff around,” says Lorcan. He suffered what appeared to be a heart attack at the end of the film and we see him in the first episode with a livid scar on his chest.īoth The Bear and Boiling Point deal with addiction, an occupational hazard in a world in which alcohol and stimulants to keep you awake have been, if not obligatory, then commonplace. Many of the same faces from the film return in the TV series, including Graham, although he’s no longer the head chef or main character. “Those kinds of things do happen, but they probably wouldn’t happen all on one shift,” Lorcan says. I saw a chef cooking and necking vodka straight from the bottle, head chefs screaming and throwing pots and things Jon Spiteri, maître d’ Shot in one continuous take, it featured a head chef, Andy Jones (Graham), in the grip of alcohol and cocaine dependency, a critical visit from an environmental health officer, arguments between kitchen and front-of-house staff, stroppy customers, an allergic reaction requiring an ambulance, and more than enough other incidents to send Graham’s character back to the vodka and white lines. Stephen Graham plays the frazzled head chef in BBC1 drama Boiling Point. I watched it with my dad, and for us it was like being at work – quite stressful.” But I absolutely loved Boiling Point, the film. “I didn’t really like The Bear,” Lorcan says. His parents are the celebrated maître d’ Jon Spiteri, who was one of the founders of St John restaurant, and Melanie Arnold, who used to run Soho’s French House dining room and is a co-founder of the Rochelle Canteen in Shoreditch. Head chef Lorcan Spiteri, 31, who with his brother Fin runs the Studio Kitchen and Caravel restaurants in north London, has spent most of his life in and around the food hospitality business. In fact, Boiling Point, created by former chef Philip Barantini, James Cummings and the actor Stephen Graham, has a good claim to be the real pioneer because it is a spin-off of the 2021 film of the same name (itself an expansion of a 2019 short film), written by Barantini and Cumming and starring Graham.īoth the American and British dramas feed off the tension, timing demands and fraught hierarchies that are common to restaurant kitchens the world over. Following closely behind is BBC1’s Boiling Point, whose first episode airs on 1 October. The first season arrived last summer and the second season was released this June.
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