00:00 Michel Roux is opening a new restaurant, Chez Roux, at the Langham Hotel in London on May
00:06 22nd, serving French and British cuisine.
00:09 But which is his favourite and who is he supporting in the Euros?
00:13 So Chez Roux is opening very very soon in the Palm Court at the Langham.
00:18 Really exciting, a great menu inspired on my childhood, food that I was brought up on
00:25 and the very very first menus of Le Gavroche.
00:28 So some of my favourites are the oeuf en gelu for example which is a poached egg, soft
00:32 poached egg, encased in a beef tea or a beef consommé.
00:37 So that's really a step back in time.
00:39 But we've also got a Welsh rarebit with some pickled walnut ketchup, a roast lobster with
00:44 garlic butter, so things like that.
00:46 The menu is a mixture of great British classics that have got a little French touch to them
00:51 and some great French classics of course because that's what I was brought up on.
00:55 Do you prefer French cuisine over British cuisine?
00:58 Obviously I love French cuisine, that's what I was brought up on and that's what I love
01:02 cooking.
01:03 However, England now has a great food identity and based on some of the great classics.
01:11 But it is beautiful and I love eating them and cooking them.
01:14 And obviously you're French, going into the Euros as well, do you have a kind of favourite
01:21 going into them at all?
01:22 Going into the Euros, well I'm win-win, France and England.
01:26 Amazing, I know you've got a restaurant in London, how excited are you to just be in
01:34 London and have a restaurant here?
01:36 What does it mean to you to be at the Langham as well?
01:39 I really consider myself as a Londoner.
01:41 I was brought up here and I just love it, I love the buzz, the atmosphere, the creativity,
01:49 it's electric.
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