Kicked Out Of College, Michelin Restaurant Fire, Stage 3 Cancer | The Life of Jun Tanaka

Jun Tanaka got kicked out of college at 19. The letter that told him so is where his career in food started.

From there, Le Gavroche, Chez Nico, Marco Pierre White's three-star kitchen, and eventually his own restaurant, The Ninth, where he won a Michelin star he never set out to chase.

He opens up about the two hardest years of his life, a 3am call about a fire at his restaurant, and a stage 3 cancer diagnosis in the middle of running it.

Whilst holding the same mindset got him through all of it… Focus on today, not the thing you can't control.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome, Jun Tanaka  

01:37 Childhood: New York, Tokyo, and moving to London at 7  

05:03 Kicked out of college  

08:56 First day at Le Gavroche  

13:13 Life inside a 1990s three-Michelin-star kitchen  

21:45 The hardest kitchen he worked in  

31:13 Joining Marco Pierre White  

43:38 The Square, The Pearl, and starting a food truck  

1:03:04 Opening The Ninth and winning a Michelin star  

1:17:26 The fire at The Ninth  

1:31:48 Diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer  

1:41:21 Life’s lessons and what's next

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