There's a food revolution going on with new hidden restaurants opening in far flung places and extraordinary venues. They are breaking the conventions of the restaurant world by creating bespoke and unlikely establishments that demand diners to get off the beaten track to discover.
Last summer, as a challenge to himself, Michel Roux Jr set up his own hidden restaurant far away from his two Michelin starred London restaurant, Le Gavroche. A place near where he grew up as a child in Kent.
His converted Oast House restaurant, with just 18 covers, will afford him the chance to cook in a simpler, more personal and rustic style.
Along the way, Michel visits a restaurant in one of the world's biggest treehouses, another in a shed at the bottom of a suburban garden, one made of scaffold poles and plastic sheeting and even one that exists in a work of sculpture.
Helping him on this adventure is chef Freddy Bird; a man who created his own hidden restaurant in a once-dilapidated Lido in a back street of Bristol. Michel sets Freddy the mission to leave no stone unturned and to find the unlikeliest venues, from a self-build restaurant in the wilds of Scotland, where only nine people live, to a smart restaurant hidden in a caravan park and a four-seater bistro in a Citroen van.
In each episode, Michel visits three different restaurants and from each he takes the inspiration to create a dish – start, main and pudding; creating a unique three-course menu that he serves at the end of the programme to a crowd of locals who have booked into his long-hidden Oast House restaurant.
| CHANNEL |
BBC Lifestyle (DStv 174) |
| PREMIERE |
9 November 2017 |
| TIMESLOT |
Thursdays, 20h00 |
| REPEATS |
Fridays, 03h45 / 15h00 |