Chef competitions
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Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants' decision to adopt a cluster approach to hotel management isn't a new one. Forte Hotels experimented with the same concept...
Posted: 24 June 2011 | 16:05
In March the annual Festival Culinaire Bernard Loiseau took place in Mauritius. Christopher Barber, managing director of Leiths Food Solutions, represented the UK as a judge, with Michael North, chef-proprietor of the Michelin-starred Nut Tree in Murcott, Oxfordshire, competing. Barber reports
Posted: 17 June 2011 | 17:53
The semi-finalists for the 2011 Craft Guild of Chefs' National Chef of the Year have been announced. They have been selected through a paper judging process and will compete at three cook-offs held in London, Portsmouth and Sheffield between 5 and 15 September...
Posted: 15 June 2011 | 11:11
Food service suppler Brakes has teamed up with brewer and pub company Shepherd Neame to launch its Best of British chef competition in conjunction with British...
Posted: 09 June 2011 | 15:45
Bruce Poole chairs the panel of chef judges at the Young Chef Young Waiter competition and says he's always impressed with what the entrants achieve
Posted: 03 June 2011 | 11:34
Louise Witterick has been named School Chef of the Year 2011. Witterick, a West Midlands finalist, is a catering manager for Solihull Catering Services. She was voted Britain's top school chef by a panel of judges at the national final held at University College Birmingham last week.
Posted: 25 May 2011 | 10:28
Last year, Claire Lara became the first woman to win Masterchef: The Professionals. She spoke to Janie Stamford about how the BBC series has helped her career.
Posted: 11 May 2011 | 16:21
The National Association of Care Catering (NACC) has announced the six finalists of its 2011 Care Cook of the Year competition (CCOTY). The six cooks from across the UK will compete for the title at Unilever's Knorr Kitchen in Leatherhead, Surrey, on 6 July.
Posted: 09 May 2011 | 12:07
The Academy of Culinary Arts has unveiled a shortlist of potential candidates to represent the UK in the next Bocuse d'Or culinary competition. Following former entrant Simon Hulstone's decision to retire from the prestigious biennial contest, the academy has narrowed the search for his replacement down to three chefs.
Posted: 06 May 2011 | 10:49
Last week Mark Birchall, head chef at the Michelin-starred L'Enclume in Cartmel, Cumbria, became this year's Roux Scholar, after his fourth attempt at the...
Posted: 03 May 2011 | 16:05
Forty nominees for the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards 2011 have been announced. The list sees Lisa Allen from Northcote up against Ed Wilson (Terroirs) and Abdul Yaseen (Cinnamon Kitchen) for the Restaurant chef award, while Bistrot Bruno Loubet and Viajante in London take on Pea Porridge in Bury St Edmonds for the New Restaurant Award.
Posted: 21 April 2011 | 17:31
Mark Birchall, head chef at the Michelin-starred L'Enclume in Cartmel, Cumbria, has been named the 2011 Roux Scholar. Birchall, who had entered the...
Posted: 19 April 2011 | 09:53
The British team for La Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie is looking for the best pastry chefs in the country to represent the UK in January 2013. Applicants are asked to include their CV, an explanation on what motivates them to compete with the British team, and which discipline in which they would like to demonstrate their skills.
Posted: 18 April 2011 | 11:37
Jamie Brittain, demi-chef de partie of the Midland hotel, Manchester, has been crowned QHotel's Chef of the Year, following a cook-off among members of the group's intermediate Chef Academy training programme.
Posted: 15 April 2011 | 17:41
In this week's Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine... Chefs with allergies How does it affect their work? Top chefs share their own...
Posted: 07 April 2011 | 16:37
A young chef who stood in at the last minute as the British representative in a culinary competition in France carried off the prize for the best pastry dessert. Jack Brown, a commis chef at the Westerly in Reigate, had just four days' notice of the competition after the original UK competitor fell ill.
Posted: 25 March 2011 | 14:47
Garret Keown from the Bell Inn in Horndon on Hill, Essex, has been named the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs Young Chef of the Year 2011. Now in its 35th year, the competition, which is sponsored by Gaggenau, is open to contestants aged under 27 and aims to recognise and promote young talent.
Posted: 22 March 2011 | 12:44
Sixteen-year old Jessica Higgins has been crowned winner of Futurechef 2011. Higgins saw off stiff competition from 11 other finalists with her menu, impressing a panel of high profile judges, including Theo Randall, Cyrus Todiwala OBE and Joe Queen, led by David Mulcahy of Sodexo.
Posted: 22 March 2011 | 09:49
Sodexo chef Ross McMillan was a runner-up in the Young Chef of the Year category in the ScotHot awards. McMillan, who is originally from Tillicoultry, works at the University of Stirling's Stirling Management Centre.
Posted: 18 March 2011 | 17:09
Mike Friel has won the first Incentive Catering Cook Off, which took place last week at AGFA Graphics' premises in Leeds. Three of Incentive Catering's...
Posted: 18 March 2011 | 14:03
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