Simon Rimmer

Simon Rimmer
Born	Simon Rimmer (1963-05-05) May 5, 1963 Wallasey, Cheshire
Occupation	Celebrity Chef
Years active	1990–present

Simon Rimmer (born 5 May 1963) is a chef who appears on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch and before that on BBC2's Something for the Weekend.

Career

Rimmer founded Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in West Didsbury, Manchester in 1990. Two years later, The Guardian described Greens as one of the most exciting new restaurants in the UK.

His television career began with Granada Breeze and he has also appeared regularly on programmes including This Morning, Granada Tonight, A Taste for Travel, Lunchtime Live and The Afternoon Show, Gloria’s Open House – Channel 5, Xchange for CBBC and a spot of co-presenting on UKTV's Great Food Live and BBC1's To Buy or Not to Buy. Simon presented This Little Farmer for BBC One and Making a Meal of It, also for BBC Two. He was the mentor on the Channel 5 programme Breaking Into Tesco in which people competed to get their food products sold by Tesco.

His first book, The Accidental Vegetarian, was published in October 2004. His second book, The Rebel Cook, was published in October 2006. His third book Lazy Brunch came out in spring 2008. It was co-written with Tim Lovejoy and based on a feature in Something from the Weekend. In spring 2009, Mitchell Beazley published his fourth book, The Seasoned Vegetarian.

Rimmer opened his second restaurant, Earle, in Hale in October 2006. It has been named top celebrity restaurant to eat at in the Observer Food Monthly.

In 2012, he appeared on the CBBC series, 12 again.

Personal life

Rimmer is married with two children. He supports Liverpool Football Club but chose the history of Tranmere Rovers as his specialist subject on the BBC quiz Mastermind.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Greens Restaurant
• Earle Restaurant
• Eat The Chef - Video Recipes by Simon and others
• Simon Rimmer recipes
• The Cheshire Cookery School