I loved it, but I spent it with the faith that there'd be more money. I was never going to sit on a suitcase of money out of fear.
"We had signed the lease in 2007... quite an expensive lease, which was a regular lease at the time," the chef tells Katie Byrne on the latest episode of the Money Talks podcast. "It was about €125,000 a year rent for the space. We signed that with personal guarantees - we were a bit naive going in, we kind of said, 'ah yeah, sure we'll just sign whatever we need to sign'. And then the crash happened and it was... yeah, it was difficult."