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Article: Food & drink: We're ready for you now EATING OUT: `Can I offer you a Twiglet while you're waiting?' Not in this Green Room you can't: Belgian endives are hovering in the wings
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2000
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It would be a fair exchange. For every chef who leaves a
restaurant kitchen to clown around in a television studio, a savvy
employee could give up making programmes and open a restaurant. Then
there would be more places as pleasant to eat as The Green Room. The
early-retirement escape route is lined with tearooms, guest houses
and coffee-cum-bookshops, as corporate drop-outs turn their hand to
hospitality, and a couple of months ago, Donna Goddard, a former
director from Central News, opened this restaurant in Belper.
She's called it The Green Room after "the exclusive area reserved
in TV studios for VIPs and celebrities to enjoy the highest standards
of hospitality and relaxation" - also ...