Oliver Peyton
Irish restaurateur and judge
Oliver Peter Patrick Peyton, (born 26 September 1961), is an Irish businessman, restaurateur and television personality.
Early life
Peyton was born in Sligo and raised in Killasser near Swinford, County Mayo, his mother was the owner of a knitwear factory and was fond of cooking. Peyton attended Summerhill College in Sligo until he was 17 when he left home and went to New York where he was employed in a range of jobs including digging artesian wells, roofing and as a waiter. He gained a scholarship to Leicester Polytechnic in the UK, where he studied textiles. He has two sisters.
Career
After two years at Leicester Polytechnic, Peyton moved south and with a partner opened two nightclubs, The Can in Brighton – favourably reviewed during 1983 by The Face magazine – and later Raw in London. In the 1990s he moved into restaurants, opening the Atlantic Bar & Grill near Piccadilly in 1994 and Coast in Mayfair in 1995. These were followed in Manchester by Mash & Air, a brasserie and a restaurant respectively, both in a former warehouse in the Canal Street district. The name was derived from stages in the brewing process, and beer was brewed on site, ahead of the craft-beer curve.
Further developments saw Mash opening in London in 1998 and in 1999 Isola in Knightsbridge.
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