HE MAY have won a Michelin star and cooked for Queen Elizabeth, but Meath-born chef Richard Corrigan admits he buys all his pans from charity shops.

Richard, whose London eateries include Bentley’s Oyster Bar and Grill, said Hampstead’s second-hand stores have plenty of posh cookware, especially Le Creuset, that’s almost as good as new because they are ‘pots for middle-class people who hang them up and never use them’.