The definitive guide to people in the UK hospitality industry whose actions are having the greatest impact in 2005.
Click on the names below to view the full profile for each chef listed.
| 1 | Jamie Oliver | Fifteen & Bambino |
| 2 | Gordon Ramsay | Gordon Ramsay Holdings |
| 3 | Heston Blumenthal | The Fat Duck, Hinds Head |
| 4 | Rick Stein | Seafood Restaurant & other businesses |
| 5 | Raymond Blanc | Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Le Petit Blanc |
| 6 | Brian Turner | Restaurants at the Crowne Plaza NEC, Millennium Hotel London & Copthorne Hotel, Slough |
| 7 | Michael Caines | Article continues below
Royal Clarence Exeter, Arthouse Hotel Glasgow |
| 8 | Chris Galvin | The Wolseley Restaurant |
| 9 | Tom Aikens | Tom Aikens Restaurant |
| 10 | Rainer Becker | Zuma & Roka |
| 11 | Philip Howard | The Square, Chez Bruce, the Glasshouse, La Trompette |
| 12 | Nigel Haworth | Northcote Manor |
| 13 | Marcus Wareing | Gordon Ramsay Holdings |
| 14 | Mark Edwards | Nobu |
| 15 | Claude Bosi | Hibiscus Restaurant |
| 16 | Bruce Poole | The Square, Chez Bruce, The Glasshouse & La Trompette |
| 17 | John Campbell | The Vineyard at Stockcross |
| 18 | Andrew Pern | Star Inn at Harome & The Star at Scampston |
