Hampton Court: The Chefs
CJ JacksonBillingsgate Seafood Training School
Office 30 Billingsgate Market, Trafalgar Way, London E14 5ST
Tel: 020 7517 3548
www.seafoodtraining.org
CJ Jackson is a freelance food writer and teacher, and is passionate about anything to do with fish and seafood. She trained at the Cordon Bleu School in London where she also worked for several years before working in the Far East and Australia. When she returned to London she taught at Leiths School of Food and Wine for nine years, eventually becoming Vice Principal. Today, she is proud to be the Director of Billingsgate Seafood Training School. Her new book, The Fish Cookbook, is published by Dorling Kindersley, £20.
GARY LEE and JAMIE DOBBINThe Ivy
1-5 West St, London
Tel: 020 7836 4751
www.the-ivy.co.uk
Gary Lee has been senior head chef at The Ivy Restaurant since 2008. His Caprice Holdings’career includes positions as sous chef at Le Caprice and head chef at Bam-Bou before becoming head chef at The Ivy.
Joining The Ivy in 2004 as a chef de partie, Jamie Dobbin quickly moved up the ranks to sous chef. When an opening at the new Club at The Ivy came to light in 2008, Jamie was offered the role of head chef, which he has approached with great enthusiasm and skill.
Katie Caldesi
Caffe Caldesi
118 Marylebone Lane, London W1U 2QF
Tel: 020 7935 1144
www.caldesi.com
Caffe Caldesi serves home-cooked Italian cuisine, and at cookery school La Cucina Caldesi, celebrity chefs, food writers and wine experts are invited to teach all aspects of Italian cooking and wine. There is also Caldesi in Campagna in Bray, and in 2009 Katie published The Italian Cookery Course.
Laura Santtini
www.laurasanttini.com
A "mistress of flavour" Laura has evolved from being a behind the scenes taste consultant and working mother into an award winning author, business woman and global marketing sensation. From modest beginnings her pioneering range of scratch cooking preparations, Laura Santtini Spellbinding Flavours, has grown from a kitchen table idea into a singular global phenomenon, particularly with her ground-breaking embodiment of umami – the fifth taste of deliciousness – in Taste #5 Umami Paste™.
Michael Wignall
The Latymer
Pennyhill Park Hotel, London Rd, Bagshot, Surrey GU19 5EU
Tel: 01276 486156
www.pennyhillpark.co.uk
Michael Wignall in the head chef of the Michelin starred Latymer restaurant at Pennyhill Park manor house hotel, where his cooking is celebrated for being complex, carefully created and very technical but not intimidating. Michael proactively supports ‘Food Heroes’, the initiative to promote and work with local suppliers, so that his dishes contain the very best seasonal produce, developing exciting, varied menus.
Sanjeev Kapoor
www.sanjeevkapoor.com
Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine today. Chef extraordinaire, TV show host, author of bestselling cookbooks, restaurant consultant, architect of a unique range of food products and winner of numerous culinary awards, internationally acclaimed Chef Kapoor is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one cuisine in the world and empowering women of India towards making his country healthy.
Martin Dickinson and Dave McCarthy
Scott’s
20 Mount St, London W1K 2HE
Tel: 0207 495 7309
www.scotts-restaurant.com
Martin Dickinson began his career as second commis chef at Hilton Park Lane. He subsequently worked at the Michelin-starred Carlton Tower, the Groucho Club and Inigo Jones. He also worked for Marco Pierre White at Harvey’s in Wandsworth.
Dave is from Midleton, County Cork and started his career as commis chef at The Ivy. He stayed there for two years before moving to Harvey Nichols as chef de partie. In December 2006 helped open Scott’s as senior sous chef. In 2009, he was promoted to head chef.
Simon Wadham
Rivington Grill
28-30 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DZ
Tel: 020 7729 7053
178 Greenwich High Road, London SE10 8NN
Tel: 020 8293 9270
www.rivingtongrill.co.uk
Upon leaving the army Simon Wadham moved to London and began working at the fashionable Joe’s Café in South Kensington. He then went to work for Oliver Peyton at the famous Atlantic Bar & Grill. In 2007, Simon joined Caprice Holdings as head chef at Rivington Grill Shoreditch and Greenwich where he works with locally-sourced produce, creating distinctively British dishes.
Steve Drake
Drake’s Restaurant
The Clock House, High St, Ripley, Surrey GU23 6AQ
Tel: 01483 224777
www.drakesrestaurant.co.uk
Steve Drake is passionate about cooking. At his happiest in the kitchen of his restaurant, Drakes in Ripley, he produces innovative contemporary British food. His unique skill of flavour combining takes him where other chefs haven’t ventured. His creativity and craftsmanship have been recognised with a Michelin star since 2005.
