Biography
Oliver Peyton is the founder and chairman of Peyton and Byrne and a renowned restaurateur whose restaurants are recognised as much for their impressive design as they are for the quality of their cooking. Described by Matthew Fort as having a “penchant for the spectacular and the idiosyncratic", Oliver now oversees the restaurants and cafés for the majority of London’s famous galleries and parks, and Peyton and Byrne now lead the way in public space dining. He is also one of the judges on BB2’s Great British Menu and the author of two cookbooks. He was recently awarded an OBE for his services to the hospitality industry. On the 8th February 2013, when responding to questions on Channel 4 News about the quality of supermarket meat products, and referring to the Irish meat industry, stated Ireland was 'an airport for meat.' Furthermore, he said that he would never buy Irish beef, claiming that meat labelled as Irish was probably sourced in Indonesia.
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