Celeb chef Dame Prue Leith has revealed how a romantic date along with her now-husband John Playfair was spoiled by an excessively chatty chef.

The Nice British Bake Off star revealed that she and John had deliberate to take pleasure in a meal at a complicated Michelin-starred restaurant earlier than tying the knot.

Nevertheless, in an interview with The Oldie journal, Dame Prue claimed their romantic night was interrupted by fixed “lectures” concerning the meals they had been served.

The 85-year-old TV persona expressed her annoyance on the rising pattern of restaurant workers explaining each element of the menu. She even talked about that she and her future husband got a map of their meals suppliers throughout their meal.

Her irritation reached its peak when the chef emerged from the kitchen for a chat simply as they had been about to depart the restaurant.

Dame Prue stated the chef was eager on partaking in “foodie discuss” and “would not go away”. She stated: “Pandering to foodies, menu devisers now write essays on each course: ‘Hand-dived Scottish king scallops, every day picked marsh samphire from the Solway Firth, Arran victory natural new potatoes’. “

Dame Prue’s illustrious profession within the culinary world started in 1960 when she moved from South Africa to London to check on the Cordon Bleu Cookery Faculty. She opened her first Michelin-starred restaurant, Leith’s, in Notting Hill in 1969.

She additionally established a culinary academy, Leith’s Faculty of Meals and Wine, and has penned quite a few recipe books while contributing meals articles for nationwide publications.

Dame Prue gained larger recognition when she featured as one of many specialists on the debut programme The Nice British Menu in 2006, departing to take over from Dame Mary Berry on The Nice British Bake Off in 2017.

Although not too long ago withdrawing from the celeb version, she has confirmed her intention to proceed with the first programme alongside fellow decide Paul Hollywood: “I’ve given up celeb (model of the present), however I nonetheless do The Nice American Bake Off, and I nonetheless do The Nice British Bake Off. I am a lover of all of them.”

She continued: “It is the perfect job in telly! I haven’t got to be taught traces, I haven’t got to put in writing a script, I haven’t got to rehearse. As you say, all of us go and eat cake.”

The TV persona declared “lastly we are able to shout about it” as GBBO’s return to Channel 4 was introduced for Tuesday, September 2 at 8pm.

Dame Prue additionally options in her personal programme, Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen present on ITV, the place she welcomes the general public into her kitchen alongside husband John and mates together with GBBO co-star Alison Hammond and former colleague Sandi Toksvig.