Friday, March 20, 2009

Celebrity Chefs in London

In London, the restaurants that employ celebrity chefs and personal chefs are a budding trend. Thus the number of chef jobs is increasing day by day and chef career has become one of the promising careers in the city. With the supervision of a celebrity chef, a nice restaurant can become the best in all measures. The best part is, having a dinner at the most luxurious celebrity chef restaurants in London can cost from a contented but a mouth watering experience .One can choose from the various available preferences that match his class and style.

As a matter of fact, all the surveys performed with those who visited restaurants frequently, over the last 15 years tend to show that the restaurants operating under the names of celebrity chefs are by and large better than the other restaurants in general and are charging nearly the same prices as well. Celebrity Chef is a man who has cooked for world leaders and crowned heads.

There are chefs, who fabricated and prepared banquets for Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac George Bush and even the queen during the great Summit in 2005. The global slump is going to leave a great impact to the jobs of the celebrity chefs. During these days of recession, the bad restaurateurs will vanish out of business and this will leave a room for those who want to establish themselves in the trade. Those who don’t work efficiently will give up.
Let’s take look at the most desirable celebrity chefs in London.

Gordon Ramsay

Born on 8 November 1966, Gordon Ramsay is a world class celebrity chef. He was rewarded with as many as16 Michelin Stars. There are a number of hotels that he operates throughout the world. Some of them are-Restaurant Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, Maze by Gordon Ramsay at The London, New York City, Gordon Ramsay at Conrad Tokyo, Gordon Ramsay at The Atlantis Sentosa Resort, Singapore. And some of the restaurants that he operates throughout the London City are- Maze Grill, Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, the Boxwood Café at the Berkeley Hotel, Stuart Gillis, and Foxtrot Oscar. Along with being a celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay has been involved in a series of charitable events and organizations.

Richard Corrigan

An Irish chef, Richard Corrigan is based in London at Lindsay House. In 1998, he was awarded a Michelin Star and besides achieving an Award for being an Outstanding Chef in London at the Restaurants in London Awards; he has been rewarded with many other cookery prizes. Corrigan is the Chef of Lindsay House in Soho. He also comes into sight weekly for the BBC channel, on the TV series called as "Full on Food". He was the only one amongst four other chefs who won a Great British Menu, a BBC competition, and got liable to become a cook for the 80th birthday of the Queen in 2006. In Paris, his meal of Poached Fish Salmon was chosen for the Dinner of Ambassador. Now he airs a show that he hosts, on the Irish channel at the name of, “Corrigan Knows Food" every Tuesday at 8.30 pm.

Antony Worrall Thompson

Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson was born on 1 May 1951, and is one of the London’s renowned celebrity chefs. At Westminster College,he pursued Hotel Management, after his school got over. As he graduated in Hotel Management, he took his first job in catering in Essex. He shifted to Britain in 1978, and worked as a soup-chef at Brinkley's Restaurant, and ended up being a chef head one year hence. He had taken a time off in France, working his way about the home cuisine, the year after becoming a head chef.
The first restaurant that Worrall Thompson launched was- Ménage à Trois - in 1981, in Knightsbridge. This restaurant was known only for serving puddings and starters. He had opened many lavish restaurants, including Metro in Jersey and in west London, it was Wiz and Woz— all of them reflected his outstandingly amazing affinity to food. In the late 2006, in Buckinghamshire he became the Director of Catering for Old Luxters Barn.

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