Chef! is a British sitcom starring Lenny Henry that aired as 20 episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC. Image File history File links Chef!.jpeg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Lenny Henry, CBE (born Lenworth Hinton on August 29, 1958 in Dudley, West Midlands) is a British entertainer, whose family moved to the UK from Jamaica in the 1950s. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). ...

Henry stars 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 treats people, except his wife Janice, but including customers and investors, with contempt and humourously goes into sarcastic tirades when someone especially attracts his ire. One of his favourite targets is his inexperienced sous chef Everton. A chef (also executive chef or chef de cuisine), from the French for chief or head person, is the executive in charge of a kitchen, responsible for recipe and menu creation, staff training, and overseeing all cooking. ... Toms Diner, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld Eating Out redirects here. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... A sous chef is a chef ranking above line cooks and below an executive chef or chef de cuisine. ...

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. Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Latin Oxonia) is a county in South East England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. ... Raymond Blanc is a French chef born in Besançon, France in 1949. ...

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 Season

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

Second Season

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

Third Season

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

External links

• A Canadian fan site for Chef!
• Chef! at the British Film Institute Screen Online