Chef!

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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 driven chef, and later owner, of a gourmet restaurant called Le Chateau Anglais in the English countryside. Gareth usually treated people, except his wife Janice, but including customers and investors, with contempt and humorously went into sarcastic tirades when someone especially attracted his ire. One of his favourite targets was his inexperienced Commis Chef, Everton.

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.

Contents 1 Quote 2 Episode list 2.1 First series 2.2 Second series 2.3 Third series 3 External links

Quote

Gareth: "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."

Episode list

First series

• "Personnel"
• "Beyond the Pass"
• "Subject to Contract"
• "The Big Cheese"
• "Fame Is the Spur"
• "Rice and Peas"
• "A Bird in the Hand"

Second series

• "A River Runs Thru It"
• "Time Flies"
• "Do the Right Thing"
• "Masterchef"
• "A Diploma of Miseries"
• "Private Lives"
• "England Expects"

Third series

• "Gareth's True Love"
• "Reeny/Renée"
• "Leassons in Talking"
• "Love in the Air"
• "Rochelle"
• "Paris? Jamaica?"

External links

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• {{{2|{{{title|Chef!}}}}}} at The Internet Movie Database
• Chef! at the British Film Institute
• A Canadian fan site for Chef!Template:UK-tv-stub