Background
The third of four brothers, Tanner was born in Maidstone, Kent.
The third of four brothers, Tanner was born in Maidstone, Kent.
Since then, he has appeared on the British Broadcasting Corporation cookery programme Ready Steady Cook and more recently the Independent Television Breakfast programme Lorraine. Tanner worked his way up through the ranks until he was invited by the Roux brothers, Michel and Albert, to move to the United States and work in upstate New York, where he was Chef de partie at the Lake Placid Lodge. Within four months, he was promoted to junior Sous-chef.
Tanner worked his way up the ranks and on returning to England took a job under Martin Blunos at the two Michelin-starred restaurant Lettonie in Bath before a Head Chef role at Right on the Green in Kent.
The restaurant closed in October 2014. In Spring 2006, the Tanner brothers opened a second restaurant in Plymouth, The Barbican Kitchen, a brasserie sited within the Plymouth Gin Distillery, a 500-year-old building in the heart of Plymouth"s oldest area, The Barbican.
In April 2011, the Tanner brothers opened The Kitchen Cafe, serving snack style foods as an offshoot from the brasserie style cuisine. In early 2014, the brothers bought a public in Bidborough in Kent for £1.5m which opened in May 2014.
At the heart of his style during his television appearances is the repetition of his catchphrase "Like so", used to make various culinary techniques seem easy, encouraging members of the public to give them a try, and also to assuage viewers" fears of unfamiliar ingredients, as well as "dig down deep".