‘Diamond in the very, very rough, I don\u2019t know where to start with what an abomination this is’<\/a><\/p>\nAs he dashes into Carluccio’s restaurant, he says: “I’ve just come back from Ibiza. I live in Austria, Ibiza and the UK.”<\/p>\n
While most of us would find living in three countries a logistical nightmare, for Recardo it is normal – he craves being busy and works `24\/7′.<\/p>\n
As for his diet, he avoids red meat and opts for the Verdure Alla Griglia – seasonal grilled vegetables, chicken and fresh orange juice with fruit salad for desert.<\/p>\n
I choose the Agnello Alla (a lamb steak), which was delicious, followed by bread and butter chocolate pudding.<\/p>\n
Recardo’s always thinking ahead to his next project.<\/p>\n
“I want to achieve something everyday, I never switch off,” he says.<\/p>\n
He puts his drive for success down to a tough upbringing, as a fostered child in Manchester.<\/p>\n
Right now his latest `baby’ is promoting the new party drink Rich Prosecco, with Paris Hilton fronting the campaign.<\/p>\n
Recardo’s inspiration<\/h3>\n
“My upbringing spurred me on to where I am now. I was raised in care and by foster parents – I lived in over 25 care homes,” he tells me. At 14, Recardo joined the Seventies soul band Sweet Sensation, with whom he toured numerous European cities.<\/p>\n
But it was the Manchester Evening News’ Search For a Star talent competition in 1982 that kickstarted Recardo’s success.<\/p>\n
He says: “I was on four TV shows in a week off the back of that.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t really have the normal teenage years that most kids did,” he adds, ruefully. Recardo eventually bought Balearica in 2001 – a bar, restaurant and club in Manchester – but after a year the restaurant folded. At that point, Recardo was at his lowest: “I lost everything financially – but you have to experience sorrow to know happiness.”<\/p>\n
Since then he’s built up a career as a broker selling major clubs, theme parks and bars. Currently he’s got property deals lined up amounting to \u00a3100 million. Among the venues are Manchester’s Ritz and M2.<\/p>\n
But Recardo’s not cagey about his success – in fact, he’s keen to share the secrets.<\/p>\n
“You protect your circle and always think laterally – you have to think of the possible consequences of everything you do when it concerns the projects that are most important to you,” he says.<\/p>\n
A Christian, Recardo stresses that you have to `believe in yourself, if you have an idea – execute it’.<\/p>\n
His philosophy has paid off – when not working he leads a glamorous lifestyle packed with motorbikes, snowboarding and doing up his Ibiza beachfront home.<\/p>\n
But as we part company Recardo admits: “I’m a true northerner: I love cheesy Blackpool as much as the glitzy European cities.”<\/p>\n
Carluccio’s, Unit 13, Hardman Square, Spinningfields, Manchester. 0161 839 4738.
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