Serving simple bistro food using the best quality ingredients possible across 6 Bistros in the North West plus our pub:
@thewhitehorsepu
(# 68 Gastropubs 2024)
I’m giving my car back tomorrow. I’ve cancelled everything from gym membership to life insurance. I spoke to my mum about moving in to hers. Theres a lot of self preservation going on in the restaurant world & I won’t be a part of it. No one gets sacked at elite bistro until I do
My account was suspended yesterday because I got annoyed at
@Nigel_Farage
comments about the people we’ve been cooking for the last 5 months in an Ellesmere Port hotel.
When someone is hungry you don’t ask why ? Or where are you from ? You just feed them.
Nigel you are vile.
For all the people that unfollowed the account & for everyone that won’t come to one of the restaurants again because they support Nigals views, hand on heart I couldn’t fucking care any less. All the best & I hope you’re never homeless & hungry.
Someone no showed last night so we charged them 10 pounds. She was furious. So then her mum called. To say shes furious. Her mum said if we dont reimburse her daughters no shoe deposit she will write it absolutely everywhere. So if you see it graffitied down the canal that’s why
The heavens opened up in Heswall & the chefs
@BuRntTruffle
saw someone had left a convertible with its roof down & no sign of the owners so they got some cling film & cardboard & made a roof for them 😩
Something I’ve noticed big time is scousers are the most unpretentious people you’ll meet. They seriously look after each other & anyone else that makes Liverpool their home. I hate snobby cunts & you never meet any from Liverpool
As a direct result of our elite bistro cook at home demands being quite good we are joyfully unfurloghing 5 more team members.
Thank you so much to everyone for ordering. So sorry for mistakes. We will definitely get better 🙏
Honestly hundreds of you asking me to do deliveries but who the fuck wold want these truffle & Parmesan chips delivered to their house personally by me while they sit in their pyjamas ?
If you put a shitty message on all your social media’s to your millions of followers about not being let into an elite bistro a day after they’ve been closed for four months & running at 40% capacity...
I will find you & I will kill you.
I know some of you were offended about me saying I would throw him in a dingy and lob him in the sea if I saw him near the hotel in Ellesmere Port, I just want to apologise. To the sea. I wouldn’t dream of contaminating it with that poisonous substance.
I haven’t opened six restaurants to watch six restaurants close down & never open again. The future holds no certainty that is one of very few facts. Another fact is you will have to drag my stubborn corpse out of sticky Walnut before someone tries to take Elite bistros from me.
I want all of you running your own restaurants to know that we are just as in the shit as you. That we panic every day about all the same things you do.
EHO. The VAT bill. Wages. Only cooking for two guests on a Wednesday night. You’re not on you’re own. We’re all fighting
@Matthew__Murray
@elsalwilliams
Mathew thank the lord for your sense! I absolutely agree but I also think they should all be killed, particularly the joyous ring leader in the mustard yellow roll neck! I was so disgusted at this positivity I immediately changed my screensaver to the burning gates of hell.
Our main goal as a restaurant business is to ensure the guests that dine with us have a wonderful experience. My job is to defend & support the teams while they do that.
We have zero tolerance to rude abusive cunts.
Restaurants are completely in the shit.
We need you. We need you on
#EatOutToHelpOut
out too. It is helping. BUT, please don’t be rude to us. Yes we are in the shit but we’re not desperate enough to accept rudeness in return for business. Same rules apply.
Thank you 🙏
I know lots of people in the industry think I’m a cunt for the way I deal with certain guests. I think they think I’m giving hospitality a bad name or something. Lots still believe “the customer is always right” lots just think I’m a cunt regardless, which is fair. Anyway X
One of our guests bought a focaccia yesterday...
He gave us 250 quid for it
We tried to say no & he told us to shut up & just take it. He’d kill me if I named him but thanks Mr R
This is one of hundreds of stories from you lot over the last 4 days.
You lot make our fucking days X
Hey,
This account is getting massively unfollowed & I’m guessing it’s because I’m retweeting all the elite bistro at home messages. I absolutely respect that & get how irritating it is but I’m going to carry on doing it. It’s like brand awareness or some shit. Sorry X
Ok so a lot of you have been asking me about the young lad on the documentary called Danny...
Danny (Champ) moved from
@PINIONbistro
to
@kala_manchester
& this evening was asked to go to the
#OFMAwards2019
because he’s just won YOUNG CHEF OF THE FUCKING YEAR!! X
Proud as fuck
Was a bit nervous about sending the post about
@BuRntTruffle
this morning. Been there the last three days wondering what to do. In the end just told it as it is. Cris the GM just text me buzzing & said we’ve taken 59 bookings today. Thanks everyone. It’s such a positive feeling X
Don’t worry this hasn’t fucked with our vibe. We’re all positive as fuck & the last few days of reopening has been amazing. I just think it’s important to share this to help people understand whats also still going on.
All our other guests have been so lovely.
Big love X
We are making some changes & we’d like you to know.
I have no idea if this is the right decision. The future of Elite Bistro isn’t in our hands anymore but we will do our best by the teams & by the guests to adapt. We won’t give up. We won’t moan. We won’t beg. We will fight it X
Let me introduce you to Billy my shit eating disobedient rescue dog. Might as well be called bus stop or Stephen or limestone for all the fucking good billy does though.
I’m not explaining the nail varnish, we’re in isolation ffs.
Morning everyone! Xx
Men that piss on toilet seats can you let me know you do this because I don’t want to be your mate.
My first question is why tf would you not lift it up. My second is who the fuck do you expect to clean it. & my final question is when you’re at home do you sit in your own piss ?
Polite notice to people that have ordered from Elite bistro at home.
If your finished dishes look better than the ones I did on the video & you send them to me I will fucking block you & all your friends. Other than that, happy cooking! X
Good evening everyone.
At 11 a.m this morning while I was sat in
@BuRntTruffle
the local EHO walked in for my requested unannounced re-inspection.
We have now moved up to a 4.
I hope this will give you the confidence in us. We will work closely with them now to get to a 5.
It’s fucking hard to be excited by anything at all with six closed restaurants. Yesterday was particularly grim from a completely fucking selfish point of view watching others re open.
I’m not sure why Jay has been so kind to us again because that’s not his job.
Thank you 🙏
This week’s restaurant column: I take on the challenge that is the dish packs by
@GaryUsher_Chef
and Elite Bistros at Home. My kitchen ends up a mess but the food is great. (Comes with bonus Les Dawson gag).
He doesn’t fucking deserve you.
Find you a better bloke on here anyway. Twitter what you saying ?
Table of two on me
@PINIONbistro
for valentines if we find you a decent date. You into in ? X
I have some good news!
We re opened six restaurants tonight. It was busy. The teams have absolutely smashed it & we’re all proud & all buzzing.
Thank you to all of you that support us either on social media or by visiting.
We might just get through all this X
Morning world.
As a business we wont pay our VAT or PAYE. we got a 33 grand bill yesterday for rates at Wreckfish which we sent back the same way it came.
We will use the grants we will take the loans
Today we will put a page up with things like vouchers on.
We will do deliveries
If you don’t approve of me trying to promote the restaurants while abiding to guidelines that’s ok. Maybe just don’t comment at all. Maybe reserve your judgement, open your minds & understand I’m trying to save jobs. Thank you 🙏
Restaurants that are wondering what to do ?
Be the fucking best you’ve ever been. Be the cleanest. Give the best service. Cook your fucking hearts out. Do the best social media posts. Just be better than you ever have. Raise your game & absolutely smash guests expectations.
I want to make it crystal clear I have zero money in the bank personally & every single fucking penny in elite bistro will be evenly distributed to the teams until there’s nothing left.
I will not hang on to anything. I won’t try and save elite bistro instead of paying everyone.
I’ve probably taken 100 photos this morning because it’s so fucking beautiful.
There’s no coffee or drug better than this to start a day.
Me & billy sending positive vibes to you all. Morning you lot X
Fuck. It’s been an emotional 5 months.
But we’re back!
Elite bistro is back!
Our fist service is the evening of Friday August 7th & you can book now!
Our new opening hours are Wednesday-Sunday
We’ve missed you, we can’t wait to see you!
Bookings open X
Cats out the bag
Danny not only won young chef of the year at
#OFMAwards2019
but he’s also on the front cover this Sunday!
Life can be a right cunt cant it & Danny has stood up to those times & told it to go fuck itself. He could teach us all a lesson in resilience...
& cooking X
I feel a lot of guilt about the way I feel & have felt over the last few months with regards to the business. The debt & situation is overwhelming & I’m not sure I had it in me to save elite. Thank fuck for the people I work with because they’ve carried me through.
Who the fuck would give a restaurant a bad review in this current fucking climate. Of course it’s a reduced menu you fucking basic bitches. Do me a favour if you’ve got 5 spare minutes go onto Atinas trip advisor page & give them a 5 star. Let’s get them to number 1 in Chester
Can I just say that
@djwhitmore
& Kevin the owner at Hoptons Butcher in Hoole have supplied the ingredients free of charge for me to cook for
@soul_chester
for 60 homeless people this afternoon.
As If you needed anymore reason to get your meat from Hoptons in Hoole 😊
Announcement! All costa coffees around
@ShitChester
have reopened! ...
so swerve the fuck out of them & go & taste real coffee from a real independent on brook St in Chester. Grab your mangos a few doors down 🤗
Sunday times Rich list as most of us wonder if we will still have a job or a home in a few months is a bit dark.
Reading that most of them including 20 billionaires furloughed their staff makes me question absolutely everything in life. This is Grim.
Men that intimidate women working in restaurants. You are low. You’re fucking low. You’re fucking pussies. You’re weak. You’re scum.
To the friends that dine with these men...
See above.
Makes me a little sad to see chefs slagging me off for whatever reason with the cook at home boxes but I’m absolutely mature enough these days to put it into perspective & realise it’s just born out of frustration from how covid 19 has effected them. They could also @ me...
This isnt me rubbing a bit of lamb telling you how glorious it is with rosemary because I dont give a fuck about all that.
This is an observational doc about real fucking life behind the scenes of the ups & downs of opening a bistro.
Hope you all like it X
This was March on my 6am dog walks. I was walking the poor dog for 3 hours a morning. Was such a strange time having the restaurants closed & not knowing if they’d ever open again. Felt really lost,useless & helpless with absolutely everything.
Anyway...
Tomorrow we fucking open!
Dinner for
@soul_chester
feeding the homeless tonight.
70 meals of chilli con carne.
Mince generously supplied by Hoptons in Hoole & pasta supplied by
@djwhitmore
.
Tomorrow’s fish has been generously supplied by the stars
@bricklandsfish
& to be cooked by
@Joseph_Benjamin
heros
Some really great news for hospitality. It’s making things feel possible. I feel really good. Really fucking good. Positive for the first time in fucking ages
& to the two guests that helped themselves to wine off the shelf in sticky last night ...
That little white ball thing by those shelves is a camera HIYA 🤓
Served by - looked after by.
Works for me - works with me.
Staff - team.
Customer - guest.
Job - career.
It sounds like a post for a Territorial Army advert but...
Change a few words to change a whole culture.
We fuck up all the time btw.
We send raw fish, overcooked venison, we fuck bookings up, forget birthday cakes ... all sorts.
We try & rectify. We give food away. We comp whole bills. We make mistakes. We’re human. We’re fair though.
What we don’t do is give free food to blaggers
Fuck sake this next one is so fucking controversial so I totally appreciate people will unfollow but a bar of Cadburies once at home
In the fridge first ?
For me it needs to be fridge cold.
Please just accept we’re all different.
Thanks X
A post from one of the best chefs in the country who’s had to delete it because it’s been completely taken out of fucking context. The only fucking point he was making was if the allergies are this intense please let the restaurant know in advance so we can make sure it’s amazing
Because of
@soul_chester
No homeless person in Chester through the corona virus lockdown will go without a daily meal (if they don’t want to)
Every day Chester indies will take turn to cook for them. They will cook for them in their closed restaurants.
If people think you’re a cunt when you’re being yourself don’t change. Just accept you’re never going to be everyone’s cup of tea. This is something I’m getting to grips with. Tell people to FUCK OFF too, it’s good for the soul. Yours obviously.
This is so useful thank you. The last thing we would want to do is rip anyone off so we’ve looked closely at your maths & after extensive investigations it turns out you’re just a miserable cunt.
Can I ask a favour
@BuRntTruffle
is fucking dead at the minute. Like we’re doing nothing for lunch & 4 for dinner. Not giving it the old “use us or lose us” sympathy beg but what I will ask is IF you do go & you enjoy it can you tell us on here & stuff & ill RT it all
Thank you X
Morning everyone.
I’m sorry for slamming your timelines with RT’s about the documentary.
That was my plan.
My priority is the business & getting it out to as many people as possible in the hope that it turns into ‘bums on seats’
Instead of @ ing me calling me a cunt block me X
I’ve got a bit of good news.
This is Carl. We’ve worked together for years & he became the elite bistro maintenance man about 2 years ago.
He’s coming off furlough tomorrow & will begin working alone starting to redecorate each bistro.
@BuRntTruffle
is first in line ☺️
Oh. My. God!
@liamgallagher
is ordering from our ELITE BISTRO AT HOME thing!
Guys please get your orders in now as it’s about to go crazy I think!
Online ordering is open now for next weekend. Ham hock for two. Featherblade of beef. Octopus & chic p stew!
Amazing! X
The last 20 years of my career I knew was building up to some kind of pinnacle moment where Things would reach a moment of glory & total clarity.
That moment came an hour ago when stephanie came into my life
I am ...
Poundland Gordon Ramsey.
If you’re the blokes that were being aggressive to the guys trying to do their jobs last night 1) you’re pathetic cunts. 2) you’ll have the opportunity to be aggressive to me today. 3) I’ll be banning you from all elite bistros & finally I’ll be sharing your names on here. 🎄🎄🎄
We missed the sunrise cause it went up behind the clouds. Sunset redemption.
Hope you’re all well.
If you’re like me You’re up & down pretty fast. Feel like giving up one minute then taking on the world the next.
Just got to remember it’s day by day init. Bit by bit.
Also
Booze X
So I won Cheshire chef of the year last night but I want to dedicate it to
@sharples_chef
elite bistro executive chef because he’s the main man not me. He writes the menus, he does the cook offs, he organises fucking everything. I do twitter.
@cheshirelife
we’re honoured X
Two days ago the daily mail asked me to do an article with “three other top chefs” about food I eat at home or some shit. I’m guessing they didn’t get the memo about the last time they asked me to do something for them ...
Important that I tell you the good stuff too...
The revenue for this weeks cook at home doubled over night. All because of you lot sharing the post & obviously ordering too. To be honest it means we’ve now smashed it. Thank you & fuck the daily mail exposure 🙏
Today’s been nice.
Watched the sunrise.
Cooked for 61 homeless people.
Swerved social media again.
Drew a cartoon penis.
& now I’m sat under this tree.
See you tomorrow 😊
I have no idea what’s going to happen to my life & the business. Literally none. Nor do you. Or does the chancellor. Trump Doesn’t know. Ya mum doesn’t know. Ya best mate that wins all the pub quizzes doesn’t know. No one knows...
So FUCK IT 😊
Morning X
Good morning.
I’m not going to be on here for a while.
I’m taking some time out because I don’t like the person I’ve become & how addicted I am to a phone. It’s pathetic to be honest.
Please keep an eye on all the restaurants though.
Much love
Gazza X
101 meals! It’s chilli con carne with zero salt or spice cause I know most of the guys on the streets prefer stuff a little plainer. It’s still tasty as fuck though cause I just had one for my lunch. Not gonna lie it does make me feel good doing this.
Thank you to
@soul_chester
Guys put your cynicism back in your store cupboards.
To cook for 60 homeless people today out of my closed restaurant cost me nothing.
If you can, you should.
The only reason I’m posting about it is to hopefully encourage others in this horrific time we’re in.
I’m gonna get so trolled after this aren’t I 😩
Shit cook
Dirty cunt
Shit tattoos
Bad role model
Shit restaurant
Filthy language
Begging crowdfunding cunt.
You lot ready ?
Thank you everyone. You’ve made our night. I’m always fucking shocked at the support. Honestly every fucking time you make us feel good about our decisions. The last five months has been so fucking shit & we don’t doubt the next 12 won’t be wank too but you lot make it bearable X
Good afternoon you lot 🤗
At 8pm this evening we will be launching our Elite Bistros at home menu. We can send it to you anywhere in the country in chilled boxes.
Orders to be placed on a Friday to be delivered the following Friday.
We’d love you to join us in our next chapter X
Messaged on here last night saying that there’s definitely more to the trip advisor guest than I’m letting on & that it’s unfair on them ... & that all I wanted was publicity & PR. The guests were disgusting cunts & if I wanted publicity I’d go on telly & bake a fucking cake.
I want to wish each & every person in the bistro teams the best of luck & love today with their reopening. I know a lot of you are nervous about being a bit rusty & I know that first check on will probably be terrifying but by the end of service it will be like you never closed
Polite notice.
I blocked everyone that said they toasted the bread for their bacon sandwiches.
Just thought rather than entertain these animals just get them immediately out my life.
Thanks for your support as always x
I know nothing about life or politics but if it was up to me and a boat of people risking their lives to cross the sea fleeing from Syria wanted to stay in the UK I’d be helping them to do that.
I get it’s complex but it’s so sad
We won’t fucking moan. We won’t fucking blame. We will be the most stubborn fucking group of bistros this cunting world has ever seen.
I want & fucking relish this responsibility.
Elite fucking Bistro for the win!
Who’s with us ?
People giving me advice on how I should have better worded my question 😂
Guys it’s a basic bitch Twitter poll on a Saturday morning, I’ve not been commissioned by government to collect vital statistics.
Us being on the telly has really got us out the shit. Sure it’s temporary but still it’s been such a fucking relief to get some more bums on seats & cash into the business. Obviously I was super worried about us looking like a bunch of basic bitches but we didn’t did we X