The recent chat between Rishi Sunak and Gordon Ramsay produced by HM Treasury’s PR team did not do either participant any favours. Brand Rishi was definitely dealt an adverse blow, Chef Ramsay marginally less so. Days after the video was released, Nihal Arthanayake, who presents his afternoon news and interviews show on BBC Headliners spoke with Gordon Ramsay. Both … [Read more...]
An Invitation to accompany your KP to play golf at The Belfry this summer
Meiko UK have always been champions of Kitchen Porters by manufacturing the warewashers KP’s like to use most. Also, through running The Kitchen Porters Club, the twitter page dedicated to KP’s. The Kitchen Porters Club highlights jobs for Kitchen Porters across the UK, alongside news and just about anything related to KP’ing, as well as some fun stuff too. Meiko UK and The … [Read more...]
Roux Scholarship 2021 set to resume this autumn
After the 2020 Roux Scholarship was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Roux Family have set new dates for the competition to take place in autumn 2021: the regional finals will take place in London and Birmingham on 9th September and the national final will take place on 25th October. The 18 regional finalists, as well as the first reserve, selected at the … [Read more...]
Chefs and Restaurateurs’ react to roadmap
Boris Johnson’s roadmap on Monday may not have contained many surprises, but the timelines are not what many had hoped for. Restaurateurs have told us, it does at least provide a framework around their planning to reopen, but the concern for many is cash flow. All are now eagerly waiting on the chancellor next Wednesday, to deliver further extended and increased fiscal and … [Read more...]
Rishi meets Gordon, we consider other candidates
Rishi Sunak has launched a series of online meetings with industry leaders, the first of which with Gordon Ramsay. The meeting is quite enlightening, as it is choreographed to present both as ordinary blokes having a chat, when neither are anything of the sort. That said the meeting flows well and is engaging to viewers. The meeting can be watched in full below to formulate … [Read more...]
3D steak looking and tasting better than the real thing coming to the UK
With the ‘alternative’ protein and meat market forecast to have a compound annual growth rate of 9.7 % between 2020 and 2025, steaks manufactured by 3D printers are looking ever more likely to appear on UK menus soon. Redefine Meat has recently received $29 million in funding to build a manufacturing and distribution plant in Israel, targeting not just their home … [Read more...]
Cook at home alongside 54 of the UK’s best Chefs for Hospitality Action
54 of the UK’s most respected chefs, including Michel Roux Jr, Angela Hartnett and James Martin have contributed to a unique collection of home-cooked recipes, in aid of charity Hospitality Action, to mark the one-year anniversary of the first national Covid-19 lockdown. Chefs at Home is a compilation of the dishes our nation’s most renowned chefs prepared at home with their … [Read more...]
Cambrian Training pledges support for hospitality charity when it is needed most
The leading provider of apprenticeships in the hospitality industry in Wales is supporting a charity that provides financial relief to alleviate poverty for people who work or have worked in UK hospitality. Cambrian Training, which has its headquarters in Welshpool and offices in Llanelli, Builth Wells, Holyhead and Colwyn Bay, has become a corporate member of Hospitality … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay Academy announces 2021 opening
World-Renowned, Multi-Michelin starred Chef Gordon Ramsay announces his first GORDON RAMSAY ACADEMY is to open Autumn 2021. As one of the world’s most famous chefs, with one of the UK’s largest, privately-owned restaurant groups including 18 restaurants in London and an additional 17 restaurants internationally including USA, France, Dubai and Singapore (with further openings … [Read more...]
Andrew Bennett MBE, a eulogy from a friend
We received the following from Cyrus Todiwala OBE and thought we would share it with others, in memory of Chef Andrew Bennett MBE. Cyrus Todiwala OBE: “Andrew was a great man who worked tirelessly to help develop future generations of chefs. “It was only a few weeks ago that Andrew resigned as Chairman of the Craft Guild of Chefs realising that cancer was close to finally … [Read more...]
Green Stars headline Michelin Awards 2021
The MICHELIN Guide selection 2021 for the UK and Ireland was held online, presented by Claudia Winkleman in a way that provided other award ceremonies with a template of how to do it. The assessments throughout 2020 were like the restaurants tested to the full by the on and off lockdowns that escalated as the year progressed. So, a testimony to the tenacity of the … [Read more...]
MICHELIN Stars 2021 UK and Ireland Live Broadcast
Watch live as the newly awarded restaurants for the MICHELIN Guide selection 2021 for the UK and Ireland are announced. Just click on the image below and sit back as the culinary sensations are unveiled. You can also follow the event and get involved on our twitter page here. … [Read more...]
First and landmark plant-based Michelin star awarded in France
ONA restaurant in Arès nearby to Bordeaux aims to be a place of life where respect for people, nature and animals is at the centre of all concerns. From this ‘aim’ and much more ONA has also become the first plant-based restaurant in France to be awarded a Michelin star. Claire Vallée is the Founding Chef of the ONA Restaurant and on the homepage of the restaurant’s website … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay announces his latest new restaurant opening
Sunway Resort, the spectacular flagship of Sunway City Kuala Lumpur, has announced a ground-breaking partnership with Gordon Ramsay Restaurants to open the world-renowned, multi-Michelin starred chef’s first-ever restaurant in Malaysia, marking the start of an exciting new era of international gastronomy for the country. Under the historic collaboration, guests at … [Read more...]
Adam Handling Restaurant Group installs UV protection for safe reopening
ARC Services are delighted to partner with ENS Group to integrate automated technology touch point cleaning enabling restaurants to minimise the spread of Covid-19. Our competition winner, Adam Handling Restaurant Group, was the recent recipient of the UV-Clean range on their high touch IT-equipment - point-of-sale and mobile payment devices, including tablets for table … [Read more...]
A short statement on the passing of Albert Roux from the Roux Family
The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021. Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London’s culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967. His son, Michel Roux Jr, says that Albert’s sheer love of life and passion for making … [Read more...]
“Our determination to see this competition through remains undimmed.” The 2020 Roux Scholarship postponed
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing regulations, the Roux family has decided to further postpone the 2020 Roux Scholarship regional and national finals, due to take place in Birmingham and London. This follows their earlier announcement in July to reconvene the 2020 Roux Scholarship in March 2021. These dates (March 4th/29th) are now … [Read more...]
