With his Michelin-starred restaurant L'Enclume having scored significant screen time in the new Steve Coogan flick The Trip (during which visit the comedian does a positively brilliant Ray Winstone impersonation), Simon Rogan arrives now in fashionable Marylebone with the wind decisively at his back. But his latest foodie mecca Roganic (get it?) actually has an pre-ordained expiration date: he plans to close it up in just two years time.

"My success is a poison chalice."

On the subject of art, you’ve heard the skeptic standing in front of, say, an Alexander Liberman “Circle Painting,” ponder, “Well, I know what I like. But is it art?” Or is it just a circle that a Montessori geometry teacher may have rendered in oil on canvas with a protractor for a brush? When is a urinal a urinal, and not a Duchamp “readymade,” and so on?

The U.K.’s leading comedian Steve Coogan takes Hollywood by thunderous storm. Here, a cock and bull story about his rise to the top.