Lucas Wootten is getting ready for the third supperclub of his pop-up restaurant Lahmacun, which he runs with his wife Sophie, when we speak over the phone ahead of the big night. He is on hands free to make sure he stays on track to be ready for the three-course Middle Eastern fire feast - his speciality - on Thursday, April 6 which has sold out.
"I'm so excited," he tells me referring to the pop-up which is being held, once again, at Pontcanna's Kings Road Yard. "There's a certain level of confidence; the fact that we've gone there a couple of times before now and we just know what we're doing."
And after receiving great feedback from the first two supper clubs - which were both hosted in the same location - he says: "The feedback was amazing. I still to this day think it's nice to stay humble, it's nice to still get overwhelmed. There's a level of confidence - and I think chefs, quite often, are on the line between confidence and cockiness. And you've got to try and pull it back and remain humble all the time but have confidence in your product and to have confidence that other people will receive it well. We wouldn't be continuing in the way we are doing if we didn't have such good feedback."
