Archive for the 'chef' Category

Hameed’s Indian Cooking Class

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

We had another fantastic evening at The Kitchen last night with Hameed for our Indian Home Cooking master class – check out these pictures!

“I had a really nice time yesterday, I enjoyed every moment of it and the guests were brilliant and were very eager to know more about the South Indian cuisine.  There were [...]

Indian Home Cooking

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Last night we were really pleased to introduce our new Indian chef Hameed Marickar Farook – a great addition to The Kitchen master class team. 
Hameed is an accomplished chef in his own right and being from the Madras region of Southern India is extremely knowledgeable on his local food.  For Hameed, Indian cooking is [...]

Learn to Carve like a pro at The Kitchen

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

This Sunday we’re looking forward to welcoming back highly experienced & accomplished Maitre D, Francois Bertrand for our next Carving Master Class. 
We have a couple of spaces left so if you would to learn the tricks of the trade, give us a ring to book in!  You will learn how to carve a leg of lamb, John [...]

Masterchef addiction….

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Like many of you out there I am avidly watching the latest series of Masterchef – The Professionals, whilst we are busy busy here at the Kitchen with our sessions, Master Classes, new dish-dash events and planning for Christmas, I have a little ritual which I stick to every night.  Back home, glass of red, [...]

It’s Difficult to Explain

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Everyone always asks is a top kitchen as bad as they make it look on the TV, and this week once again the spotlight is on the personalities, and pressure of top chef’s and their desire to succeed.
I’ve worked in at least 10 Michelin Star restaurants over a very fairly long career and there is [...]