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Ash Mair wins Masterchef: the Professionals 2011

Ash Mair has been named the winner of Masterchef: the Professionals. Judges Michel Roux Jr and Gregg Wallace gave the title to Mair at the end of the final cook off, which saw the finalists prepare a three course menu of their own design.
Posted: 16 December 2011 | 10:37

Antonio Carluccio to host Clink fundraiser

Antonio CarluccioAntonio Carluccio will be at the Clink Restaurant next week to host a lunch to raise awareness and funds for the Clink Charity. The Italian chef will work with inmates at HMP High Down who are being trained by Catey winner Alberto Crisci in the first fully operational restaurant built within the secure walls of a UK prison.
Posted: 13 December 2011 | 17:23

London Cocktail Club to open second site

JJ Goodman and James HopkinsThe winners of the BBC's TV show The Restaurant with Raymond Blanc will open their second cocktail bar in central London next year, Caterer and Hotelkeeper can reveal. JJ Goodman and James Hopkins will open their second London Cocktail Club on Shaftesbury Avenue in February.
Posted: 07 December 2011 | 17:38

Fat Duck rejects claims it reacted slowly to norovirus outbreak

Fat DuckHeston Blumenthal has hit back at a report claiming that many of the diners affected by the norovirus outbreak at the Fat Duck in 2009 could have been spared if the restaurant had acted sooner. Blumenthal closed his iconic three-Michelin-starred restaurant for two weeks in February 2009.
Posted: 06 December 2011 | 12:54

Seasonal recipe of the week – Five-spiced duck breast, by Heston Blumenthal

Five Spiced Duck BreastScore the skin of the duck breasts in a criss-cross pattern with a very sharp knife, and dust both sides with the five-spice powder and salt. Heat a frying pan over a medium heat and, when very hot, place the duck breasts in the pan skin-side down.
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 17:12

Chef Revelations – Michel Roux

What was your first job? Pâtissière in Paris, aged 14; What do you do to relax? I smoke a cigar - but I don't get to relax very often; Which is your favourite restaurant? Any Bib Gourmand; What's your favourite hotel? Michel Guérard's Le Couvent des Herbes...
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 16:57

Book Review - Heston Blumenthal at Home

Heston Book JacketHeston Blumenthal is one of the most innovative chefs in the world. His cooking at the Fat Duck and, more recently Dinner, as well as his numerous television programmes have helped make him a household name.
Posted: 29 November 2011 | 16:50

Who's Cooking Dinner charity line-up announced

The line-up for next year's Who's Cooking Dinner charity event to help raise money for the cure of leukaemia and other blood cancers has been announced, featuring 20 of London's top chefs with 15 Michelin stars between them...
Posted: 25 November 2011 | 10:33

Jamie Oliver to open second Union Jacks branch in Chiswick

Jamie OliverJamie Oliver is to open the second branch of his new restaurant concept, Union Jacks, in Chiswick, west London. The celebrity chef, who launched the British-influenced restaurant group at the Central St Giles development in London's West End earlier this month, has taken over the former site of the French Kitchen on Chiswick High Road.
Posted: 23 November 2011 | 10:32

Hans Neuner among Obsession festival line-up

Michelin-starred chef Hans Neuner from Portugal is among the line-up of 10 chefs taking part in next year's Obsession food and wine festival at Northcote, Langho, Lancashire. Now in its 12th year, the event has seen more than 70 chefs appear on the Northcote stage...
Posted: 23 November 2011 | 10:22

Caterer and Hotelkeeper interview – Ben Murphy

Ben Murphy competingKoffmann's commis chef Ben Murphy is on top of the world after being awarded a gold medal for cooking at WorldSkills London 2011. Lisa Jenkins asks him about the challenges involved in the competition
Posted: 11 November 2011 | 17:39

Jamie Oliver’s latest school dinners plan gets a mixed response from the industry

Jamie OliverThe school meals industry has broadly welcomed Jamie Oliver's new mission to 'save school dinners', but the celebrity chef has come under fire over the practicality of some of his proposals. In his Feed Me Even Better campaign manifesto launched last week, Oliver outlined his eight-point action plan.
Posted: 04 November 2011 | 14:35

Tickets still available for Michel Roux Jnr's Hospitality Action dinner

There are still tickets available to see Michel Roux Jnr host an evening at Roux at Parliament Square to help raise funds for industry charity Hospitality Action. The two-Michelin-starred chef has created a special menu for the event at his second London restaurant...
Posted: 28 October 2011 | 16:57

Jamie Oliver appeals for help to find missing Fifteen apprentice

Kevin BoyleTV chef and mentor Jamie Oliver has appealed for help in tracing one of the original apprentices at his Fifteen restaurant, who disappeared on 12 October. Kevin Boyle, 26, made it to the final 30 of 1,500 people when he featured on the Fifteen project, set up to help disadvantaged young people in London, in 2002.
Posted: 24 October 2011 | 17:12

Nick Nairn to open Aberdeen cookery school

Celebrity chef Nick Nairn is to open a new cookery school in Aberdeen. Nairn, who already has a school in Port of Menteith, Stirling, will create 10 jobs when he opens the school in Back Wynd next year. As well as all-day cooking experiences, the school will feature quick-cook classes for those short of time.
Posted: 21 October 2011 | 15:03

Vivek Singh to launch new restaurant in Soho

Vivek SinghIndian chef Vivek Singh, owner of London's Cinnamon Club in Westminster, is to open a new restaurant and bar in the West End. The chef-restaurateur, who also owns Cinnamon Kitchen and Anise in the City, has taken over the site of the Red Bar on Kingly Street, off Carnaby Street in Soho.
Posted: 18 October 2011 | 13:52

Pollen Street Social’s Jason Atherton to open Singapore restaurant

Jason AthertonPollen Street Social chef-proprietor Jason Atherton is to open a restaurant in Singapore. The chef, who was awarded a Michelin star for his London restaurant earlier this month, has bought a Chinese launderette in Chinatown, which he will convert to a 15-cover "gastro tapas bar".
Posted: 18 October 2011 | 13:22

MPW's plans to improve school meals don't impress the Department for Education

Marco Pierre WhiteMarco Pierre White has drawn up plans to improve the UK's school dinners, but following discussions with Education Secretary Michael Gove, the ideas have been shelved. The former-Michelin-starred-chef turned Bernard Matthews spokesman met with Gove last year.
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 11:00

Gordon Ramsay ends consultancy at Verre in Dubai

Rex FeaturesGordon Ramsay is to end his involvement in his restaurant in Dubai after more than a decade. The celebrity chef opened Verre at the Hilton Dubai Creek...
Posted: 17 October 2011 | 10:16

Lexington chefs cook for Ferran Adrià

Lexington chefs and Ferran AdriàLexington Catering chefs were given the honour of cooking for Ferran Adrià, when the world-renowned El Bulli chef visited the London Business School last week. Adrià was in town to launch a competition for the world's top business students to design an innovative business model for the El Bulli Foundation.
Posted: 11 October 2011 | 12:10

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