Founders of the Roux Scholarship, Michel and Albert Roux, are to host a charity gala dinner to celebrate 21 years of the competition at the hotel where its first winner, Andrew Fairlie, has a one-Michelin-starred restaurant.
The event will be held on Monday 27 October in the ballroom at Gleneagles in Auchterarder, Perthshire, and the 140 guests will enjoy a menu devised by a team of former Roux Scholars and cooked by the Gleneagles brigade.
Guests will include members of the competition's judging panel, Michel, Albert and Alain Roux, Gary Rhodes, Brian Turner and Rowley Leigh.
Gleneagles is selling "hosted" (by a judge or former scholar) tables at a fully inclusive price (eight places for dinner and four rooms bed and breakfast) for £4,000. A draw will take place before dinner to allocate the table hosts. Tickets are also available at a cost of £1,000 a couple. Bookings can be made through the Gleneagles website at
www.gleneagles.com/rouxdinner.
Funds raised from the evening will go to the Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland and St David's Care in the Community.
For further information visit
www.hitscotland.org or
www.stdavidscare.co.uk.