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What does it really take to become a sushi master? And why does one of London's most celebrated Japanese chefs believe that mastering the knife is the easy part? Dan Pope sits down with Endo Kazutoshi, the chef behind Kioku, to explore the extraordinary discipline, philosophy and creativity behind Japanese cuisine. From 17-hour working days and a brutally demanding apprenticeship to a 100-year-old...

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Restaurants lose bookings because nobody can answer the phone during service. Staff get pulled off the floor to handle repetitive questions, customer emails pile up until after the shift, and enquiries that come in at the wrong moment simply get missed. Arran Campolucci-Bordi, founder of Ayra and operator of Liverpool institution Casa Italia, is building an AI solution around exactly that problem:...

Jamie Oliver has spent decades getting Britain cooking — and occasionally pissing people off while doing it. But what does it actually take to build, protect and evolve a personal brand that millions of people already have an opinion about? Alison Corfield, Brand Director at Jamie Oliver Group, joins Dan to unpack the machine behind Jamie: from sugar-tax campaigns and battles with Big Food to Twit...

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Café Continental founders Ryan Robinson and Lee Ferguson join Dan Pope to break down what it really takes to build a restaurant people actually want to return to. From balancing creativity with brutal financial realities to going viral, working with food influencers and knowing when an idea simply isn’t working, Ryan and Lee share the principles behind one of Greater Manchester’s most exciting ind...

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Michel Roux Jr knows what it takes to build one of the world’s great restaurants. But behind the Michelin stars, MasterChef and Le Gavroche was a career shaped by pressure, burnout, family legacy and learning when to let go. Michel opens up about taking over Le Gavroche from his father Albert Roux, pushing against an “immovable” resistance to change, and why closing the legendary restaurant ultima...

Bold Bean Co didn’t just make beans cool. They built a brand people actually care about. Tobey and Amelia join Dan to unpack how Bold Bean turned one of the least glamorous supermarket categories into a cult food brand, and why obsessing over culture, community and product beats blindly following the conventional FMCG playbook. From rejecting boring advertising and building genuine brand obsession...

Max Halley built one of London’s most cult-loved sandwich shops by ignoring almost every piece of conventional restaurant wisdom. In this brilliantly unfiltered conversation, Max joins Dan Pope to unpack how Max’s Sandwich Shop went from an empty Finsbury Park restaurant doing a handful of covers to a genuine London institution — without chasing hype, Michelin stars or customer suggestions. They g...

Most restaurants treat drinks as an afterthought. Santiago Lastra doesn’t. In this clip, the Michelin-starred chef behind KOL explains how learning about wine, mezcal, cocktails, bitterness, aroma, and balance fundamentally changed the way he cooks food — and why some alcohol feels clean while other drinks leave you angry, anxious, or wrecked the next day. From mezcal’s natural production to why h...

How do you build a food and drink brand somebody actually wants to buy? In this Hungry Podcast “Megatron” episode, Dan Pope brings together four masterclasses on all things EXIT with Adam Balon, David Milner, Barney Mauleverer and Giles Brook. They unpack what really makes a business attractive to buyers: genuine product superiority, strong margins, the right team, international potential and a cl...

For this archive replay, we’re going back to one of my favourite conversations with Will and Jack, founders of Fallow — breaking down how they think about food, marketing, teams, energy, pricing, social media and the relentless work behind building restaurants people actually want to visit. The world has changed. The way you build a restaurant has changed too. This conversation shows you how. Yes,...

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Mahesh Raikar wants to build the “Indian McDonald’s.” The founder of SKVP joins Dan Pope to unpack how he’s turning Indian street food into a scalable quick-service restaurant brand — without stripping away the authenticity that made the food special in the first place. Mahesh breaks down the systems behind SKVP’s 23 sites, why a seemingly huge menu can still deliver food in around seven minutes,...

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Riordan Maynard’s story is almost impossible to believe. He left school at 16, learned the art of selling at Foxtons and co-founded Touchbase, a mobile-phone business that grew to around 200 million. Then ego, reckless expansion, the financial crisis and a refusal to accept failure brought everything crashing down. What followed was six years inside the American prison system, separation from his...

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Matthew Jones lost everything. His business was gone. His family had fallen apart. Alcohol had taken control, and he found himself rebuilding his life from scratch. Today, Bread Ahead is one of the world's most celebrated bakeries, with locations across the globe, thousands of students through its bakery school, and queues stretching around Borough Market. In this episode of Hungry, Dan Pope sits...

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Advertising legend Dave Trott joins Dan Pope to explain why most marketing goes unnoticed, why brand should be your second thought, and why simple, blunt ideas beat clever jargon. From Toshiba and Audi to Volkswagen, Nike and Steve Jobs, Trott breaks down the campaigns, principles and creative decisions that made brands impossible to ignore. He explains why the best advertising is useful informati...