Entries are now being recieved for the fifth annual South West Chef of the Year. Last years winner got a head chef job immediately after the competition.
TVs original celebrity chef heaps praise on Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson while claiming that she isnt a great chef and cooking doesnt require a great amount of skill.
Michelin-starred celebrity chef opens Foxtrot Oscar in Chelsea, just down the road from his flagship restaurant, as his empire continues its relentless growth.
What can I say? I've been asked to review a book by a chef from what is probably the best restaurant in Australia. The name Tetsuya Wakuda is one that young Australian chefs like myself have grown up with. His remarkable story is told from humble...
Envelope-pushing. It's not a discipline on the syllabus at any regular catering college, but judging by the activity in the culinary world it's part of a young chef's job description these days. Now, we know that many of you are ...
The Maverick Grant Achatz and his trailblazing Alinea have helped Chicago challenge New York's standing as gastronomic capital of the USA The entrance to Alinea is down a long narrow corridor, a dimlylit windowless portal that gets narrower as ...
Legislation has always been big in the States, but in New York restaurateurs are now fighting to stamp out dish plagiarism. The owner of West Village Pearl Oyster Bar, Rebecca Charles, is taking her Sous Chef, Ed McFarland, to court for ;copying ...
The owners of The Greyhound pub in London's Battersea are to open a pub just outside of Bromley which will be the first of the company's slightly more casual ;suburban pubs;. Mark and Sharlyn van der Goot have bought The Crown in ...
Jason Atherton is to open a Maze Grill next door, and a new Maze in Prague It's going to be a busy year for Jason Atherton, Executive Chef of Gordon Ramsay Holdings' Maze in London's Mayfair. Atherton is to oversee the opening of a Maze...
Jessica’s head chef leaves to pursue dream of opening own restaurant Glynn Purnell, Head Chef of Michelin-starred restaurant Jessica's in Edgbaston, Birmingham, is leaving the restaurant to open his own restaurant this summer. Purnell's .
Keeping it in the family with good ingredients and wholesome cooking at Magdalen When I meet Roger Faulks at Magdalen in Southwark, it's clear I'm talking to a happy man. And deservedly so – the restaurant he owns with his son, Head ...
Claude Bosi bids for London site, Murchison to move on vacated Hibiscus: Claude Bosi has put in an offer on a site on London's Maddox Street W1 and hopes to move his two Michelin-starred Hibiscus restaurant, currently based in Ludlow, into the ...
The Craft Guild of Chefs has voted Nick Vadis, Master CGC, into chairmanship at the Annual General Meeting held on March 25. Vadis, who has been Vice Chairman for the past three years, spent 25 years in the Royal Navy and is currently the Group ...
Jeffrey Chodorow’s back in town and his latest offering is sure to make waves Life is never boring with Jeffrey Chodorow around. Whenever his global restaurant group, China Grill Management, opens something new there's always a bit of ...
Club 31 was a Spanish Capital classic, but its new redesign has brought it bang up to date Stepping into Club 31, a culinary monument beloved of the Madrileños, you feel temporarily flung back to 1950s New York, to the days when women wore ...
The winner of the Knorr Scottish Chef of the Year has been named as Pamela Fowlis, a chef lecturer at Adam Smith College in Glenrothes. Fowlis is the first woman to win the title, beating nine other finalists in a live cook-off in the ScotHot ...
Jesmond Dene House Hotel & Restaurant in Newcastle has appointed a new two man team to head up its kitchen. Executive Chef Andrew Richardson and Chef de Cuisine Michael Waugh trained under Jesmond Dene's owner Terry Laybourne at his ...
The annual William Heptinstall award is now open to entries from young chefs hoping to further their culinary knowledge through foreign travel. The competition is open to all chefs, though preference will be given to applicants 20 to 26 years old. ...
You don't need a big kitchen to produce great food, but you do need to be organised. That's the message from chefs who work wonders in small spaces When it comes to kitchens, it's true that size doesn't matter, it's what you do...
Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney on how they plan to keep the quality high and get the staff in place as they get ready to take Roka and Zuma worldwide Rainer Becker has probably thanked his hairdresser more than a few times. I'm not talking about ...
Two years after the contracts were signed, ‘London’s first truly modern Brazilian’ is here. When Mocotó opened its doors last week in the site that formerly housed Oliver Peyton's Isola, owner David Ponté, founder ...
If you reckon museum food is tired and boring, think again. Forward-thinking operators are dusting off its image and upping the takings A top-name chef and museum food isn't a traditional pairing. Usually, those unfortunate enough to be struck by...
Could you run this Warrington pub? The Hawthorne is a thriving community sports pub in Warrington, showing live sport each day, along with live music every...
