Westminster Kingsway College and the Institute of Hospitality are to host a lecture to celebrate the 100th birthday of culinary legend Ron Kinton. The Ron Kinton Anniversary Lecture is being held in recognition of the chef, author and educationist’s huge influence on the catering profession and his lifetime of dedication to the industry. The lecture, which is to be an … [Read more...]
Chefs and Summer Balls: stories from the UK’s hospitality family
A book titled, 'Chefs and Summer Balls' has been launched today written by hospitality people who have generously shared their stories to help support industry charity, Hospitality Action. Throughout 2020 and into 2021, unprecedented country-wide lockdowns have forced restaurants, cafes and bars across the UK to close their doors and turn off the lights. As Covid-19 … [Read more...]
Sheffield College student triumphs at Zest Quest Asia 2021
Asian culinary competition Zest Quest Asia has announced Oliver Herrington from Sheffield College as the winner of the Zest Quest Asia – Tilda Challenge Award 2021, with his dish, Nagasaki Ramen Pork-Belly and Handmade Tilda Basmati Rice Noodles. Zest Quest Asia founders Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala welcomed the student chef to the Tilda winner’s circle in this, the 8th year of … [Read more...]
Adam Handling announces new Windsor pub, restaurant and rooms
Adam Handling will be opening his first ever venue outside of London - The Loch & The Tyne, a restaurant, pub, and rooms in the countryside of Old Windsor, on 17 May. Following the closure of two of his own restaurants amidst the pandemic, Handling is determined his group will bounce back from this long year of lockdowns all guns blazing, with the opening of his first-ever … [Read more...]
Gordon Ramsay’s latest opening celebrates his doorstep
Gordon Ramsay’s opening of his latest Street Pizza restaurant right on his doorstep in Wandsworth will be revealed at Battersea Power Station on 12th April. Ramsay said: “For many years I would travel home to South London, after a late service, crossing the river in the shadows of those huge derelict chimneys, never did I imagine one day I would open a restaurant on such a … [Read more...]
Cyrus Todiwala looking for KP golfers to join his team at The Belfry
Meiko UK have always been champions of Kitchen Porters by manufacturing the warewashers KP’s like to use most, and through running The Kitchen Porters Club, the twitter page dedicated to KP’s. Meiko UK and The Kitchen Porters Club are now looking for a KP who plays golf to join them at The Clink Charity Hospitality Golf Day 2021, in association with Meiko UK. The day takes … [Read more...]
Cyrus Todiwala announces Zest Quest Asia Tilda Challenge finalists
Twelve students from ten colleges across the UK will be advancing to the next stage of the Zest Quest Asia Tilda Challenge, the virtual spin-off to Zest Quest Asia, the national student culinary competition founded by restaurateurs, Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala, with the Master Chefs of Great Britain. Launched in January 2021 and sponsored by Tilda Foodservice, the Zest Quest … [Read more...]
After backfire with Rishi, did the real Gordon Ramsay stand up with Nihal Arthanayake
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...]
