Ep 284: Meera Sodha

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 20K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Superb chef, food writer and author (including one of Off Menu’s favourite cookbooks, ‘East’) Meera Sodha joins us for a Dream Restaurant booking this week. If anyone says ‘ship’ they have to put 50p in the Naan Jar.

Meera Sodha’s new cookbook ‘Dinner’ is out now, published by Penguin. Buy it here.

For more of her books visit Meera’s website, meerasodha.com/books

Follow Meera on Instagram @meerasodha

Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.

And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.

Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

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0:00.0	Huge news from off-menu towers, James. Big announcement. We are doing off-menu live, the tasting
0:07.9	menus at the Royal Albert Hall. Yeah, we've been doing some tasting menu episodes recently. You may
0:14.1	have remembered John Kearns' tasting menu episode. And that's the only one that's been out so far,
0:18.9	to be fair. But that's when we give a guest, the menu of a previous guest.
0:24.4	So there's a guest who's already been on the podcast,
0:26.5	and we give them another guest who's been on the podcast's menu,
0:29.9	and we see what they think about that.
0:31.5	It's a reason to book fan favourites,
0:32.9	and we thought, hey, what better way to celebrate this wonderful new format
0:36.7	than by doing it live at the Royal Albert Hall?
0:40.2	Friday the 13th of March.
0:41.8	2026.
0:42.6	At 7.30pm.
0:44.0	Saturday the 14th of March.
0:45.4	2026.
0:46.3	At 2pm.
0:47.3	Saturday the 14th of March?
0:48.9	20206.
0:49.6	At 7.30pm.
0:50.9	That's two gigs in a day.
0:52.2	We got the energy.
0:53.3	These go on sale 10 a.m. on Wednesday
	...

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