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Feb 2025
1h 26m

Ep 278: John Kearns (Tasting Menu)

Plosive
About this episode

In an Off Menu first, we invite a previous guest back to the Dream Restaurant. But they’re not choosing their meal – they’re being served another guest’s choices. This is the first Tasting Menu episode with fan favourite, John Kearns.


John Kearns’s special ‘The Varnishing Days’ is available to watch now on NOW. Watch it here.

John stars in Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE ‘Ball & Boe’ at Soho Theatre in London. Get tickets here.

Sign up to John’s mailing list at www.johnkearnscomedy.co.uk/mailing-list


Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.

Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.

Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.

Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).


Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.

And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.


Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.


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