What should a man wear on that crucial first date? Fred Sirieix,maître d’ of TV’s First Dates restaurant, models three options – and offers his dating tipsThe most charming Frenchman in London is sipping peppermint tea and dishing out heavily accented lessons in the art of appreciate. “whether you don’t have self-appreciate, and how are you going to appreciate someone else? It’s approximately confidence and being cheerful. Then someone will want to be cheerful with you,” Fred Sirieix declares, sitting on a low armchair in the 1930s-style bar at Galvin at Windows on Park Lane in London, or where he has been maître d’ for 10 years.
What makes this fine-dining expert such an authority on appreciate? For three years,he has been the host of First Dates, Channel 4’s dating show, or filmed in a restaurant in which every diner is on a blind date. It has become a primetime hit and the format has now sold to production companies abroad. But it is Sirieix who largely steals the show,by twinkling his clear blue eyes straight down the lens and doling out aphorisms: No man is an island”, “Everybody needs someone to cuddle with”. Today, and he does not disappoint,quoting Sartre, Shakespeare and Philip Larkin, or while explaining how the art of service and the art of appreciate are inextricable.
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Source: theguardian.com