Being a celebrity chef requires more than just a little frying pan panache: you have to create something that will turn people's eyeballs into saucers and their saliva glands into waterfalls. A dollop of drama also helps.With his latest restaurant, Marble, opening in May, super chef David Higgs is hoping to tick all of those boxes.Marble will be a live-fire restaurant featuring all manner of culinary contraptions designed to elevate cooking over a flame from something you do with your friends while spilling beer on yourself to a gourmet experience."A combination of things made me want to open Marble. We wanted to appeal to a wider audience [than at 500 restaurant at the Saxon Hotel]. We wanted to do something different and the live-fire concept is one that is taking the world by storm," said Higgs."South African cooking is such a broad spectrum but I think the one consistent thing is that we all love to cook over a fire."With that in mind Higgs enlisted the help of local businessman Gary Kyriacou and found a spot along the Rosebank Art Mile that didn't have qualms about flames on their premises.The concept of a live-fire restaurant may seem to contain a hint of anti-vegetarianism but Higgs has that base covered."One of the main components of the menu will be meat but there will also be great vegetable options. I think the common perception people have is that live-fire cooking and vegetables do not go together but that just isn't true," said Higgs.When celebrity chefs set up their own stalls, their fare tends to take on the term ''fancy" and the food, decorated in edible gold dust, is often finished off with a healthy splash of zeros. Marble, however, will have far fewer airs and graces."[Marble] will be a mix between fine and casual dining. Obviously I want it to be sophisticated but the plan is to also make it accessible to a much larger audience," he said.Marble could herald the end of the gourmet burger joint era and that is more than enough reason to throw your money at Higgs as soon as the doors open.Marble opens towards the end of May..