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Last night's winners gathered on stage at The National Restaurant Awards 2012

The Ledbury wins National Restaurant Award hat trick

By Emma Eversham

The Ledbury has been voted the UK's best restaurant for the third year running at the National Restaurant Awards, beating Pollen Street Social and The Hand and Flowers to the top spot. 

James Durrant launched his first solo venture, The Plough Inn, earlier this year

James Durrant: Career Profile

By Luke Nicholls

Chef James Durrant recently saw his life ambition come true when he bought, renovated and opened his own restaurant – The Plough Inn in Hampshire. A protégée of Gordon Ramsay, Durrent worked within GRH for nine years, starting at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay...

The Yew Tree was used by White as the location for his 2008 TV series, Marco’s Great British Feast

Marco Pierre White pub sold to Cirrus Inns

By Luke Nicholls

Marco Pierre White’s pub The Yew Tree in Highclere, near Newbury, has been sold to Cirrus Inns, the investment vehicle co-founded by Alex Langsland Pearse and former Gordon Ramsay Holdings executive chef Mark Askew.

Chef Mark Greenaway has greatly increased his profile having opened his eponymous restaurant at No. 12 Picardy Place in Edinburgh last year

The growing relationship between celebrity chefs and hoteliers

By Luke Nicholls

The number of restaurants led by big-name chefs in branded luxury hotels has grown significantly in recent years, and having this 'brand within a brand' can, at first glance offer significant advantages for both parties.

Alan Murchison, head of 10 in 8 Fine Dining Group

Pearls of Wisdom: Alan Murchison

By Luke Nicholls

Alan Murchison took up his first post in the kitchen as a porter at the age of 14. During the 1990s, the Scot worked in a number of Michelin-starred kitchens, including Claridges, Nobu, Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons and L’ortolan. He returned to the...

Career Profile: Clare Smyth

Career Profile: Clare Smyth

By Peter Ruddick

Clare Smyth holds a unique position for a female chef in the UK as the first and only woman to run a restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, with three Michelin stars. Smyth moved to England at 16 from Northern Ireland to train before working in a number...

David Croft's book Food for Thought is 'a combination of life, karate, cooking and disability'

Food for Thought: How to cater for disabled guests and diners

By Luke Nicholls

Former Savoy and Churchill chef David Croft has written Food for Thought – part autobiography, part cookbook – to educate the hospitality industry on the best ways to accommodate for disabled customers in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics and beyond.

Career Profile: Byron Lang

Career Profile: Byron Lang

By Emma Eversham

Byron Lang has been head maitre d' at Gordon Ramsay Holdings' The Savoy Grill since it re-opened for business in 2010. He started his hospitality career at The Ivy before going on to work for Jeremy Corbin and Chris King at The Wolseley and...

Pearls of Wisdom: Elena Arzak

Pearls of Wisdom: Elena Arzak

By Emma Eversham

Elena Arzak is the third generation of chefs to work at Arzak in San Sebastian in Spain. She currently runs the restaurant, number eight on the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Restaurants list, with her father Juan Mari.

Since 1998 StreetSmart has raised over £4.7million for the homeless

Blumenthal and Ramsay sign up to help homeless

By Luke Nicholls

Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner and Gordon Ramsay’s Bread Street Kitchen are among the big-hitting newcomers to join over 500 UK restaurants signed up for a campaign to help raise money for the homeless in the build up to Christmas.

Pearls of Wisdom: Claudio Pulze

Pearls of Wisdom: Claudio Pulze

By Lorraine Heller

Restaurateur Claudio Pulze has been hugely influential in the industry over the last 36 years, opening 50 restaurants including Aubergine, Zafferano and Brasserie St Jacques. He is the founder of restaurant company Cuisine Collection and event caterer...

Career Profile: James Partridge

Career Profile: James Partridge

By Emma Eversham

The Dorchester's new Director of Group Sales and Events' 20-year career in hospitality has taken him from a country house hotel nestled in the Cotswolds to the luxury hotel sector in London. He was responsible for launching Gordon Ramsay Holdings'...

Pearls of Wisdom: Angela Hartnett

Pearls of Wisdom: Angela Hartnett

By William Drew

The UK’s leading female chef recently bought her restaurant, Murano, from GRH and has reopened The Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room in London.

How to run a pop-up restaurant:  Jason Atherton

How to run a pop-up restaurant: Jason Atherton

By Becky Paskin

In 2010, former Maze executive chef Jason Atherton decided to run a pop-up in a disused Caffé Uno in Mayfair, to raise funds for homelessness charity Street Smart. The venue, which ran for just two days, was entirely funded by donations, and raised over...