156 episodes

Crackling anecdotes and blistering chat, lubricated by killer cooking. Jay Rayner, one of the world’s top food critics, lunches big names in a restaurant of his choosing. Stars this season include: Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Rose Matafeo, Rob Brydon, Lolly Adefope and many more.

To access The Cheese Course, an exclusive monthly bonus episode, subscribe on Apple Podcasts for just £1.79 a month. In each episode Jay invites a previous guest back for a catch up over a plate of the finest cheese and biscuits. And, as well as enjoying an extra helping of cheesy conversation each month, subscribers also get every episode of Out To Lunch completely ad-free. Delicious.

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Out To Lunch with Jay Rayner Out to Lunch

    • Arts
    • 4.7 • 170 Ratings

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Crackling anecdotes and blistering chat, lubricated by killer cooking. Jay Rayner, one of the world’s top food critics, lunches big names in a restaurant of his choosing. Stars this season include: Stephen Fry, Bill Bailey, Rose Matafeo, Rob Brydon, Lolly Adefope and many more.

To access The Cheese Course, an exclusive monthly bonus episode, subscribe on Apple Podcasts for just £1.79 a month. In each episode Jay invites a previous guest back for a catch up over a plate of the finest cheese and biscuits. And, as well as enjoying an extra helping of cheesy conversation each month, subscribers also get every episode of Out To Lunch completely ad-free. Delicious.

A Somethin’ Else / Jay Rayner production with Sony Music Entertainment

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    Introducing... Please Tell Me A Story

    Introducing... Please Tell Me A Story

    Omid tells his story to Abi. Abi tells Omid’s story to Sean, then Sean to Kai, Kai to Sikisa and Sikisa to Helen… each time with hilarious misrememberings, improvisations, stumbles, fumbles and laughs.

    Six comedians have a funny story to tell. Can they pass the story along the chain without completely twisting the tale? But this isn’t like the game you play at school where you only whisper short sentences. Each episode is a complete, beautifully written story, with each retelling getting funnier (and weirder!) as it passes on.

    And boy, does season one of Please Tell Me A Story feature an all star comedy cast: Omid Djalili, Abi Clarke, Seán Burke, Kai Samra, Sikisa, and Helen Bauer.

    Join them as the story gets weird…https://listen.sonymusic-podcasts.link/qxhC1Drl



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    • 1 min
    Extra Bites: Richard E Grant

    Extra Bites: Richard E Grant

    As the Out to Lunch season comes to a close, we are serving up our final moreish dish for you, dear subscribers, something to keep you sated until the next season.

    Answering Jay's six questions: actor, writer, and presenter Richard E. Grant reflects on his worst fashion mishap (it involves patchwork) and the praise he received from Paul Rudd and Jim Carey at the Oscars.

    Richard and Jay enjoy their final supper together at Sartoria: www.sartoria-restaurant.co.uk

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    Richard E Grant Part Two

    Richard E Grant Part Two

    On the generosity of Nigella Lawson and the then-Prince Charles in the months before his wife’s death, hiding his boxers on top of a wardrobe at Sandringham, and finding a pocket full of happiness in every single day. For the series finale, Jay welcomes back his first ever Out To Lunch guest - actor and writer, Richard E. Grant.

    Richard and Jay go back to where it all began and enjoy a delicious meal at Sartoria, London: www.sartoria-restaurant.co.uk

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    • 54 min
    Extra Bites: Meera Sya

    Extra Bites: Meera Sya

    Leave your napkin tucked in and stay seated at the table, we’re serving up some more Extra Bites exclusively for subscribers. Jay asks his guest some quick questions to help cleanse your palate between new episodes of Out To Lunch.

    This week he’s joined by actor, comedian, playwright and author Meera Syal, who tells us about an awkward encounter at the doctors, and why she treasures her parents' old photographs.

    Meera and Jay enjoy a delicious lunch at Pizarro: https://josepizarro.com/venues/pizarro-restaurant-bermondsey

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    Meera Syal

    Meera Syal

    On cutting her comedy teeth writing and performing for The Real McCoy TV show, having her semi-autobiographical novel Anita & Me become a GCSE set text, and the moving story behind her father’s experience of the Partition of India. Comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress Meera Syal goes Out To Lunch with Jay.



    Meera and Jay dine on a delicious meal courtesy of Pizarro: https://josepizarro.com/venues/pizarro-restaurant-bermondsey/



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    • 40 min
    Introducing... Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

    Introducing... Where There's A Will, There's A Wake

    If you could plan your perfect death, what would you do?

    If you were getting married you’d consult a wedding planner, who takes you through everything from what music you're walking into, what flowers to buy and who you’re going to invite.

    Now change the word “wedding” to “funeral”...

    Kathy Burke is the host of the brand new podcast, ‘Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake’, where she chats to her famous friends about their fantasy funeral.

    How do they want to die? Where are they going next? And who gets their prized possessions?

    It will be a hilarious, irreverent, dark and sometimes moving podcast with guests from the world of comedy, TV film and celebrity. From Dawn French to Diane Morgan, Jamali Maddix to James Acaster, our guests will see their death brought to life as they plan their final day from dawn to dusk and into the afterlife.

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    • 1 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
170 Ratings

170 Ratings

Jimmy jj catman ,

All

I’ve gotten through the backlog and enjoyed almost every minute of it! Being a listener from the States I still enjoy hearing about the restaurants and food out of my reach. I can only hope to hear the bonus episodes sometime without having to pay(there is advertising for that). Love show, please keep up the good work Jay!

Jim

now-bekka ,

Money grabbers

I do not need this podcast in my feed.
The constant begging for five stars is getting really old.
If you were that good we would already have given you five stars

SecludedinSedona ,

Really enjoyable - mostly

Up to the Jimmy Carr episode, I think I had enjoyed every one of these interviews and eagerly looked forward to the download on Mondays. It sounded from the interview that Jay does not like Jimmy Carr and I can only imagine how uncomfortable it must have felt having lunch together. It was certainly uncomfortable listening to it. Hopefully Jay will stick to people whose company he enjoys and I can go back to looking forward to these podcasts, instead of squirming in my seat and wishing it would stop.

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