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Prescot Bistro Is Subject of Channel 4 Documentary
The ‘rebel chef’ owner of Pinion Prescot is the star of a TV show airing this evening (10pm, Thursday 19 September, Channel 4).
Gary Usher opened Pinion on Eccleston Street last September, after raising the last few thousand pounds he needed for the restaurant in a high-profile crowdfunding campaign.
Despite appealing for only £50,000, he received over £86k in less than 24 hours to make his mission ‘to bring exceptional food to the masses’ through a French-style bistro a reality.
Tonight’s hour-long doc follows Gary’s efforts to convince Prescotians that a fine dining restaurant serving steak tartare, slow-braised octopus and deep-fried pig’s head croquettes can work in their town – and that a sweary, tattooed, occasionally controversial chef can deliver it.
Liverpool actor Ricky Tomlinson (Brookside, The Royle Family, Mike Bassett: England Manager) narrates the hour-long doc, The Rebel Chef: My Restaurant Revolution.
In related news, Usher announced last week that all six of his restaurants in the ‘Elite Bistro’ group, including Pinion Prescot, have made the pages of Waitrose & Partners’ 2020 Good Food Guide.
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