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Chefs to sign contract over sticky toffee pudding recipe

22-Jul-2008 By Emma Eversham

The Sharrow Bay hotel forces staff to sign document to prevent leaking of its famous Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe

Young Paragon apprentice breams at Dorset seafood event

21-Jul-2008 By Becky Paskin

Trainee Paragon Skills chef impresses judges Mark Hix and Tom Cull at Young Seafood Chef of the Year

Skills for Chefs winner employed by Ramsay’s Maze

16-Jul-2008 By Becky Paskin

The winner of the competition’s senior heat has been offered a job working in the kitchens of Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurant

Chad Sarno gives raw cooking classes at Saf

10-Jul-2008 By Becky Paskin

The ‘raw chef’ hosts a range of culinary workshops at his London restaurant

Wine and chocolate matching competition launched

09-Jul-2008 By Emma Eversham

Roussillon wines launches its third Roussillon Dessert Trophy

Craft Guild of Chefs: Award winners

17-Jun-2008 By Emma Eversham

The chefs association hands out awards to industrys finest

New Feature Rising Star: Sergejs Ivanovs

16-Jun-2008 By Emma Eversham

Cornwall College student Sergejs Ivanovs tells BigHospitality about his plans to work in the hospitality industry

Chef Factor competition finds new Zilli chef

10-Jun-2008 By Becky Paskin

Aldo Zilli appoints young pasta chef after a rigorous cook-off competition for his new Brighton restaurant

College teaches fish sustainability

28-May-2008 By Becky Paskin

Cornwall College’s workshop for local chefs teaches fish sustainability

Matthew Tomkinson quits Goose for Montagu

28-May-2008 By Andy Lynes

Roux scholar leaves fine dining pub four months after winning Michelin star

Knorr National Chef of the Year finalists announced

23-May-2008 By Becky Paskin

The competition announces chefs going through to the Restaurant Show final in London

Support the Cooks for the Cure Team

31-Mar-2008 By Alan Lodge

Paul Gayler, executive chef at the Lanesborough, and his Cooks for the Cure team has embarked on an ambitious programme of charity events to be held across the UKs network of catering colleges.

TV Chef Shaun Gilmore Killed in Bike Crash

13-Mar-2008 By Alan Lodge

Tributes have been paid to Shaun Gilmore - head chef at the award-winning National Dining Rooms and National Cafe in Londons National Gallery - who was killed last week in a motorbike crash. Sean is due to star in BBC TV show Celebrity Chef in July.

Paul Bloxham: King of Herts

06-Mar-2008 By Lucy Britner

TV chef Paul Bloxham talks to Lucy Britner about his new venture at The Tilbury in Datchworth, Hertfordshire.

New Head Chef at Deans Place Hotel

03-Mar-2008 By Alan Lodge

Stuart Dunley succeeds Chris Lamper in the kitchen at the award-winning environmentally-conscious hotel in Alfriston, East Sussex.

Newcastle Restaurant Opening

25-Feb-2008 By Claire Miller

New Caffe Vivo restaurant from Terry Laybourne opens in the Live Theatre in earley March

Delia: ""I'm not a Great Chef

12-Feb-2008 By Alan Lodge

TVs original celebrity chef heaps praise on Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson while claiming that she isnt a great chef and cooking doesnt require a great amount of skill.

Top Chefs to run London Marathon

04-Feb-2008 By Alan Lodge

Eight of the industrys finest will bring a new meaning to fast food, or maybe not, when they run the famous 26 mile London Marathon

New KNORR Stock Reduction

07-Jan-2008 By Unilever Foodsolutions

Its got the closest taste, look and aroma to scratch-made stock ever.

Training Scheme Promotes Locally Sourced Food

03-Jan-2008 By Claire Miller

Tourism South East project set up to help restaurants, cafes, hotels and bars cash-in on the growing demand for locally-produced products.

Tributes Pour in for Chef Andy Bruce

16-Nov-2007 By Alan Lodge

Friends and colleagues shocked by death of Andy Bruce, head chef at the Victoria Hotel in Holkham, West Norfolk, who was killed in a car crash .

Eaves Stands on his Own One Foot

02-Nov-2007 By Andy Lynes

Sous chef is let off the leash.

Book review - Tetsuya by Tetsuya Wakuda

31-Jul-2007 By Restaurant

What can I say? I've been asked to review a book by a chef from what is probably the best restaurant in Australia. The name Tetsuya Wakuda is one that young Australian chefs like myself have grown up with. His remarkable story is told from humble...

Culinary freethinkers, we bring you the top ten international (magic) chefs

31-Jul-2007 By Restaurant

Envelope-pushing. It's not a discipline on the syllabus at any regular catering college, but judging by the activity in the culinary world it's part of a young chef's job description these days. Now, we know that many of you are ...

Alinea helps Chicago towards gastronomic capital of the USA

17-Jul-2007 By Restaurant

The Maverick Grant Achatz and his trailblazing Alinea have helped Chicago challenge New York's standing as gastronomic capital of the USA The entrance to Alinea is down a long narrow corridor, a dimlylit windowless portal that gets narrower as ...

Plan for new Maze branch

06-Jun-2007 By Restaurant

Jason Atherton is to open a Maze Grill next door, and a new Maze in Prague It's going to be a busy year for Jason Atherton, Executive Chef of Gordon Ramsay Holdings' Maze in London's Mayfair. Atherton is to oversee the opening of a Maze...

Head Chef of Jessica's restaurant leaving to open own restaurant

23-May-2007 By Restaurant

Jessica’s head chef leaves to pursue dream of opening own restaurant Glynn Purnell, Head Chef of Michelin-starred restaurant Jessica's in Edgbaston, Birmingham, is leaving the restaurant to open his own restaurant this summer. Purnell's .

Magdalen a new wholesome restaurant in Southwark

25-Apr-2007 By Restaurant

Keeping it in the family with good ingredients and wholesome cooking at Magdalen When I meet Roger Faulks at Magdalen in Southwark, it's clear I'm talking to a happy man. And deservedly so – the restaurant he owns with his son, Head ...

Bosi hopes to move his Hibiscus restaurant's to London's West End

25-Apr-2007 By Restaurant

Claude Bosi bids for London site, Murchison to move on vacated Hibiscus: Claude Bosi has put in an offer on a site on London's Maddox Street W1 and hopes to move his two Michelin-starred Hibiscus restaurant, currently based in Ludlow, into the ...

China Grill Management open Suka at the Sanderson

28-Mar-2007 By Restaurant

Jeffrey Chodorow’s back in town and his latest offering is sure to make waves Life is never boring with Jeffrey Chodorow around. Whenever his global restaurant group, China Grill Management, opens something new there's always a bit of ...

Club 31's new redesign

28-Mar-2007 By Restaurant

Club 31 was a Spanish Capital classic, but its new redesign has brought it bang up to date Stepping into Club 31, a culinary monument beloved of the Madrileños, you feel temporarily flung back to 1950s New York, to the days when women wore ...

Small kitchens can still produce high quality

14-Feb-2007 By Restaurant

You don't need a big kitchen to produce great food, but you do need to be organised. That's the message from chefs who work wonders in small spaces When it comes to kitchens, it's true that size doesn't matter, it's what you do...

Becker and Waney to take Roka and Zuma worldwide

14-Feb-2007 By Restaurant

Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney on how they plan to keep the quality high and get the staff in place as they get ready to take Roka and Zuma worldwide Rainer Becker has probably thanked his hairdresser more than a few times. I'm not talking about ...

Mocotó - London’s first truly modern Brazilian

31-Jan-2007 By Restaurant

Two years after the contracts were signed, ‘London’s first truly modern Brazilian’ is here. When Mocotó opened its doors last week in the site that formerly housed Oliver Peyton's Isola, owner David Ponté, founder ...

Food in museums upgrading and reaping the benefits

25-Sep-2006 By Restaurant

If you reckon museum food is tired and boring, think again. Forward-thinking operators are dusting off its image and upping the takings A top-name chef and museum food isn't a traditional pairing. Usually, those unfortunate enough to be struck by...