Boiling Point (I) (2021)

Jason Flemyng: Alastair Skye

Quotes 

• Alastair Skye : You know the way to not burn out? You know, the way to achieve a successful restaurant is confidence and a great team. Right, chef? You can have a mediocre chef surrounded by a great team and you've got a successful restaurant.

  Andy Jones : Or you can have a shit chef surrounded by a great team.

• Alastair Skye : You've made one mistake in your life and that was marrying the man you married.

  Sara Southworth : Well, I didn't exactly think I was marrying a selfish, self-obsessed, pretentious, narcissist.

  Alastair Skye : Who marries a narcissist? Who falls in love and marries a narcissist?

• Alastair Skye : This menu is... I recognise all this stuff. This is all my dishes. I mean, I love the way it's on a bit of paper, but there's the duck with the soy.

  Andy Jones : Yeah, that was my dish.

  Alastair Skye : Yeah, I see you've added the red chicory, so that's different.

• Sara Southworth : He's making out like it's his first time to see this, but he was pouring over the menu in the car on his phone.

  Alastair Skye : Mate, you don't go and see Chelsea without looking at the team sheet, do you? So you don't go to see your chef's restaurant without having a look at the menu.

  Andy Jones : Without picking the menu apart.

• Alastair Skye : This place is great, okay? But it isn't making a fucking penny because you don't have a business mind. I do. Youse do it. You do what you do in there and let me do what I do out here. We split it. Okay? 70-30.

  Andy Jones : I can't do that.

  Alastair Skye : Why?

  Andy Jones : I've got other partners.

  Alastair Skye : You've got 30 percent to split any way you fucking like. Alright? 30 percent of a lot is a lot. Okay? Agree to this and it won't just be Sarah giving you good reviews, you'll get good reviews from everyone in town. Please, I need this.