Chef!

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Chef!
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Genre	Sitcom
Running time	approx. 30 minutes
Executive producer(s)	Polly McDonald
Starring	Lenny Henry Caroline Lee Johnson Roger Griffiths
Country of origin	Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	March 11, 1993–December 30, 1996
No. of episodes	20
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Chef! is a British situation comedy starring Lenny Henry that aired as 20 episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC.

Henry starred as Gareth Blackstock, the arrogant, tyrannical and obsessed chef, and later co-owner (with his wife), of a gourmet restaurant called Le Chateau Anglais in the English countryside. Gareth had the utmost contempt and endlessly inventive insults for:

customers who didn't appreciate his creations (or worse, asked for salt [1])
his long-suffering staff whenever they made the slightest mistake, particularly his childhood friend and initially clueless Commis Chef, Everton Stonehead (Roger Griffiths)
his sometime boss, the exceptionally boorish Cyril Bryson (Dave Hill)
anyone else who attracted his ire, with the sole exception of his mostly-patient wife Janice (Caroline Lee-Johnson)

The restaurant was modelled on, and many scenes were filmed at, Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a restaurant in Oxfordshire owned by chef Raymond Blanc.

1 Quotes
2 Episode list
3 External links

[edit] Quotes

Gareth [to an unfortunate underling]: Let me explain the order of things for you. There's the aristocracy, the upper class, middle class, working class, dumb animals, waiters, creeping things, head lice, people who eat packet soup, and then you.

Gareth: You are a pea-brained, prat-faced, pompous, pillock-headed cretin. If you took an intensive course of intelligence injections and studied till you drop, then one day you might make it to moron third class failed.

Gareth [putting on his chef's hat]: Lucinda, I have adorned myself with the culinary condom.