At his Michelin-starred Mayfair restaurant Giorgio Locatelli likes to emphasise "the quality and freshness of the produce".
For his latest venture, however, the Italian may need to lean a little more on his flair with food, since the ingredients will be - quite literally - rubbish.
The TV chef behind Locanda Locatelli and award-winning cookery books will, for one night only, be serving up dishes made from fruit and vegetables discarded by supermarkets.
Locatelli, 49, will cook a three-course vegetarian dinner for 31 at FoodCycle, the Haringey-based charity that sells meals using food that would normally end up on the tip.
He said: "I was really shocked by how much is left over from supermarkets and shops. But I could understand why people wouldn't want to buy it.
"It abhors me to think of the amount of food that gets wasted every day. At Locanda Locatelli we enforce a policy that keeps waste to minimum/zero level. We have our own baker and I get upset if I can't use bread for toast because it's got mould on it."
He said of the challenge: "It is daunting because the parameters of what you have - food that no one wants to buy - are rather limiting. But I think I will go for something with a Sicilian flavour."
He admitted, however: "I'm still probably going to cheat and bring some of the bread from my own restaurant."
FoodCycle, in the Station House Community Café serves "pay what you can" three-course meals every Friday lunchtime at the MIND centre.
The café co-ordinator, Daniel Turi, said: "Our community café is staying open for another year thanks to the people who donated to us, so we really wanted to reward them.
"Thanks to Giorgio, we can do this in style with an amazing Michelin-quality three-course meal created out of surplus ingredients."
