Tom Kerridge has shared his top picks for breakfast and lunch in Marlow and why he ‘functions better on less sleep'. 

If you think it’s a walk in the park (no pun intended) being king of Marlow’s culinary scene, think again. Tom Kerridge, Michelin-starred chef and owner of The Hand and Flowers, The Coach and The Butcher’s Tap and Grill, has a jam-packed weekend routine – spanning 6:30am to 1am.

In a column for The Daily Telegraph, the 50-year-old dad-of-one recapped an average day in his life, including go-to breakfast and lunch places in Marlow, organising Pub in the Park and watching his son play rugby.

Kerridge’s average Saturday begins at 6:30am, thanks to his eight-year-old son Acey and a religiously observed black coffee – no longer accompanied by eight Nurofen, as in his alcohol-drinking days.

That’s followed by a 30-minute or two-and-a-half-hour gym routine and a concentrated effort to focus on his “little man”, despite a nagging to-do list that makes taking a full day off a tall order.

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By 9am, Kerridge is at his Michelin-starred pub on West Street, The Coach, for an unorthodox breakfast of Bavette Steak with eggs and hash browns (£15) then onto watch Acey play rugby – tapping into his inner “classroom assistant” and getting out of his busy mind by mucking in with the other parents.

For lunch, he heads back to West Street and picks up a sandwich from The Cedar Coffee Shop, a popular local cafe that also got a shout-out from head chef at The Hand and Flowers Tom De Keyser in an interview last week.

A trip to a go-karting track with his eight-year-old and checking in with the organisers of food and music festival Pub in the Park – which concluded its Marlow stop-off last month and will arrive in Chiswick on June 28, and for which “everything” goes past him – make up the rest of the afternoon, followed by a TV box set and a night in with his wife Beth.

Even on a day off, Kerridge doesn’t turn in early. “I function better on less sleep,” he told The Telegraph, adding: “There’s a lot of things bouncing through my head that get solved overnight. I hardly ever go to bed on the same day I get up.”