article_snippet.sent: Simon has always wanted to be a chef - when Simon was eight, Simon won the opportunity to spend a day in a hotel kitchen and featured in the local newspaper.
article_snippet.sent: Simon as an eight year old after winning the chance to spend a day in a hotel kitchen .
article_snippet.sent: and so Simon decided to take up a career in IT instead.
article_snippet.sent: Simon won the final with a starter of octopus, with chorizo crisps and a cannellini bean and chorizo salad; Simon main course was pigeon with carrots, pommes parisienne and a cassis jus; and for the pudding Simon produced a lemon posset, with citrus tutti-frutti.
article_snippet.sent: Simon is now hoping to open a restaurant of Simon own .
article_snippet.sent: But anyone looking to sample some of the cooking that netted Simon the Masterchef prize can expect something much more intricate when Simon succeeds in Simon dream of opening Simon own restaurant.
article_snippet.sent: For the time being Simon is going back to the IT company Simon worked for, but Simon eye is already on setting up Simon own eaterie.
article_snippet.sent: Simon said: 'I am definitely planning on having a restaurant eventually