Ruthie's Table 4
Episodes
Rick Rubin
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Rick Rubin is a decades-long creative force in the music industry - Co-founder of Def Jam, and winner of seven Grammys. Rick has discovered, mentored...
Dame Judi Dench
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Dame Judi Dench is not just a national and international treasure, she's an interplanetary treasure. If there is life on Mars, they're talking about ...
Brian Chesky
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'In November, I sat down in New York to talk to Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. Now, I've never stayed in an Airbnb, but then again, B...
Martha Stewart
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine for a moment, you are Martha Stewart. It is 1992 and you are the most important woman in the world of food. You say your best quality is your ...
Eddie Redmayne
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago, I used every bit of access and influence to get tickets to Cabaret for one reason only - to see Eddie Redmayne the star of the show. And l...
Look Book Special
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two years after starting the River Café, Rose Gray and I were asked by a publisher to do a cookbook. We replied sternly that we were chefs, not write...
Gwyneth Paltrow
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some years ago Gwyneth Paltrow worked for a day in the River Cafe Kitchen. She arrived early. in professional chef’s whites, ready to cook. Gwyneth ...
Announcing Season Two
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ruthie's Table 4 returns for Season 2!For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers...
From The Archive: Steve McQueen
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sitting here in The River Café on a sunny Monday morning with chefs in the kitchen making ravioli with girolles, and waiters laying tables in the gar...
From The Archive: Tracey Emin
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our limited art series we are reposting our favourite episode from season 1 just in case you missed it the first time round. This is a conv...
Sam Taylor-Johnson
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Taylor-Johnson is an artist, photographer, and film-director - and she has been a friend of Ruthie’s since the day they met at the Tate gallery ...
Jonas Wood
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Jonas Wood was in London for his show at Gagosian Gallery. He came to The River Cafe for lunch, leaving behind the gift of a beautiful drawi...
Best Of Season One: Part 2
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year, I’ve had the great luck to sit with 46 fabulous guests on our podcast ‘Ruthie's Table 4’ - talking about food, family, and m...
Best Of Season One: Part 1
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year, I’ve had the great luck to sit with 46 fabulous guests on our podcast ‘Ruthie's Table 4’ - talking about food, family, and m...
Matthew Barzun
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Barack Obama’s chief fundraiser, Matthew Barzun was acclaimed for encouraging many small-scale donors to contribute in 2008 and again in 2012. As...
Danny Huston
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In front of the camera and behind, Danny Huston has spent his life in movies. Danny, son of John Huston, grew up watching rushes, travelling to film l...
Valerie Biden Owens
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Valerie Biden Owen’s family are typical Americans in some ways, but not that typical. Her brother Joe is the President of the United States. In to...
Darren Walker
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Recently a friend led me across a crowded room with the words—“Talk to this man about food; he is passionate!” So, I did - and put away all my...
Josh Berger
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Ruthie was asked to debut a live podcast, her first call was to Josh Berger. In his thirty years at Warner Bros. UK, Josh gave audiences some of ...
Austin Butler
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My favourite line in this conversation from our 41st episode of River Cafe Table 4, is Austin Butler saying he and I are ‘family’. Austin arrived ...
Adam Schiff
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When Congressman Adam Schiff came to London, giving a dinner for him in our home was a great honour. On Episode 40 of Ruthie's Table 4, Ruthie and Ada...
Sian Wyn Owen & Joseph Trivelli
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody is interested in process. How do actors memorize their lines, how does an airplane stay up in the sky? The question I'm most often asked is ...
Mark Carney
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Carney does more than you can imagine – previously Governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, he is now UN Special Envoy for Clima...
Afua Hirsch
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Having read Afua Hirsch’s political memoir Brit(ish), I was both moved and informed. So I asked her if we might have a conversation for Ruthie's Ta...
Erdem Moralıoğlu
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Often when you meet someone in a foreign country there is immediate friendship. Erdem, the designer of beautiful clothes, and his husband, Philip Jose...
Christiane Amanpour
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is no such thing as a simple phone call with my beautiful friend Christiane Amanpour. Asking, as I did yesterday, where she’s been she answers...
Stanley Tucci
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are actors who write, producers who direct and cooks who campaign for social change. Stanley Tucci does all of these. He writes cook books, cr...
Rag'n'Bone Man
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A few months ago, I walked into a very busy River Café lunch to be greeted by a buzz from the young waiters and chefs working here. They were incredi...
Duro Olowu
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Duro Olowu is a man of many parts. Fashion designer, art director, mentor to young entrepreneurs, and a passionate lover of food. Whenever he calls ...
Bob Iger
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Say the name Bob Iger, former CEO of Disney and Chairman of the Board, and everyone will think of the man that acquired Pixar, Lucas Films, and Marvel...
Stella McCartney
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I will tell you something about Stella McCartney. Stella is a fashion designer with ethics, a spokesperson for sustainability, a supporter of young de...
Iwan Wirth
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Iwan Wirth - Swiss gallerist and co-founder of Hauser and Wirth - and Ruthie Rogers met through a mutual admiration and love for the artist Philip Gus...
Nancy Pelosi: Part 2
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activis...
Nancy Pelosi: Part 1
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activis...
Alfonso Cuarón
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alfonso Cuarón is a man who combines beauty in film, with a passion for telling stories. On Episode 26 of Ruthie's Table 4, the Academy Award–winni...
Lily Allen
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If food and life have a close connection, then so does Lily Allen and The River Cafe, both born and raised in Hammersmith, West London. Lily in May 19...
Norman Foster
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activis...
Maggie Gyllenhaal
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tell anyone who works at The River Cafe that Maggie Gyllenhaal is coming in, and you will see a happy face. And if you listen to Episode 23 of The Rut...
David Adjaye
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Architect Sir David Adjaye fuses beautiful design with strong values in everything he creates. Now living in Ghana, in episode 22 of Ruthie's Table 4,...
David Beckham: Part 2
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did he really eat in the same restaurant in Paris twice a week while playing for PSG in 2013? Does he really believe the best pizza in the world can b...
David Beckham: Part 1
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Beckham loves family, loves football, and loves cooking. On Episode 20 of The Ruthie's Table 4, he discusses it all with Ruthie Rogers—telling...
Kathleen Kennedy
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a career that has spanned over four decades, Kathleen Kennedy has produced more than 60 movies. On Episode 19 of Ruthie's Table 4, she talks to R...
Roo Rogers
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Social entrepreneur and family cook Roo Rogers had no ordinary childhood, but then his mother, Ruthie Rogers, was no ordinary mother. In episode 18 of...
Tracey Ullman
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activis...
Salman Rushdie
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Salman Rushdie tells his stories writing beautiful prose, inspired by his Indian and British upbringing. Ruthie Rogers tells her stories through cooki...
Nigella Lawson
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers,...
Jude Law
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For Jude Law, food is family. On episode 14 of Ruthie's Table 4, Jude talks to Ruthie Rogers about cooking ‘breakfast in bed’, with his grandf...
Jeff Goldblum
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation with Jeff Goldblum is like a walk along a river, it just keeps flowing. Jeff talks to Ruthie as he takes us through his garden and the ...
Glenn Close
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Ruthie's Table 4, episode 12, Ruthie talks with her friend Glenn Close about eating food on a film set whilst wearing a tight corset, the...
Al Gore
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Ruthie's Table 4, Ruthie Rogers sits down with the forty fifth Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, to discuss State Dinners at ...
Edward Enninful
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ruthie is here with Edward Enninful, and he is the Editor in Chief of British Vogue, they are looking at the Thames, at the blue sky, and most of all...
Pete Davidson
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Davison is funny. In River Cafe Table 4 he makes Ruthie Rogers laugh a lot - describing his life as a waiter in Staten Island, giving his recipe ...
Tracey Emin
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a conversation about food between two friends - Ruthie Rogers a chef, and Tracey Emin, an artist. Listen when you have a quiet time - time to ...
Michael Caine
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Caine is a man Ruthie admires and adores. Listen to him on Ruthies Table 4 describing the food of wartime Britain, insisting that every movie ...
Emily Blunt
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, on the sixth episode of Ruthie's Table 4, Emily Blunt gives Ruthie the recipe for the roast chicken she cooked, leading to a proposal of marria...
Steve McQueen
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Ruthie's Table 4, the artist and director Steve McQueen talks beautifully about the heritage, ethical values and social impact of f...
Cary Joji Fukunaga
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ruthie and Cary talk about the Japanese and Swedish food he grew up with, eating spiders in Cambodia, and his favourite River Cafe re...
Paul McCartney
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, Ruthie and Sir Paul McCartney talk about the first time he tasted wine in Paris with John Lennon, what it was like being a v...
Victoria Beckham
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s episode, Rogers hosts fashion designer and entrepreneur Victoria Beckham who reveals the secret use of her mother’s oven, what the ...
Jake Gyllenhaal
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activis...
Introducing: Ruthie's Table 4
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activis...