By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Published: 00:01 BST, 11 September 2025 | Updated: 01:10 BST, 11 September 2025
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is slashing portion sizes at his flagship restaurant to cater for diners with suppressed appetites due to fat jabs.The culinary icon – who takes Wegovy himself – is looking at serving smaller meals at his Fat Duck venue and creating a slimmed-down menu for Britons on the weight-loss drugs.He said: 'We are going to look at reducing portion sizes and give options of a much smaller menu, because with these weight-loss drugs, Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy, people are eating less and the quantities of food will put them off – I want to do something about that.'The TV cook, 59, famed for controversial food pairings such as snail porridge, was speaking to industry journal Restaurant as his three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.Blumenthal who also owns one-Michelin-starred gastropub The Hinds Head, also in Bray, last week called for government help to save the British pub from the 'really big' threat from fat jabs.It comes after the Future of Food seminar, held by trade body UK Hospitality, heard 7 per cent of UK adults were using weight-loss jabs, equating to 3.6 million Britons.Research by KAM Insight found a third of these fat-jab users reported eating and drinking out less often and a quarter slashed their alcohol intake while at pubs and restaurants, attendees heard.Last month, Blumenthal told Times Radio that he'd been taking Wegovy to help combat the effects of his bipolar medication, having been diagnosed with type 1 bipolar in 2023. Heston Blumenthal is slashing portion sizes at his flagship restaurant to cater for diners with suppressed appetites The culinary icon is looking at serving smaller meals at his Fat Duck venue (pictured) and creating a slimmed-down menu for Britons on the weight-loss drugsHe added: 'I've put on so much weight, but it's starting to come off now', adding that his use of the drug is a 'paradox' given the fact he's a restaurateur.And last week he told The Daily Mirror: 'We have another problem looming, a big one, a really big one [from a rise in weight-loss drug prescriptions]. They're good, but people just won't eat as much.'Blumenthal was sectioned following an acute manic episode in 2023. The illness caused the father-of-three to suffer hallucinations that led him to see phantom guns and believe the television was talking to him. He was eventually admitted to a psychiatric hospital for three weeks, where he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
