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Nestlé Professional announces this year’s Toque d’Or® Competition three winners after the Grand Finals celebration. Well-known industry experts such as Louisa Ellis, MasterChef: The Professionals winner, and Raul Diaz, educator and well-respected sommelier and wine expert, were part of the jury who selected the winners.…

Three student chefs from The Sheffield College are enjoying the sweet taste of success, having been crowned Zest Quest Asia 2022 champions at a gala dinner and awards night held on 8th April 2022 at the Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5. For their outstanding…

Jonathan Ferguson has won the 2022 Roux Scholarship. The 25-year-old junior sous chef from The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant in Crieff, Scotland, beat five other finalists in a highly challenging final cook-off held at Westminster Kingsway College, London, on Monday 11th April 2022. Jonathan said “I’m…

Elliot Wakefield has been named the winner of Riso Gallo’s UK & Ireland Young Risotto Chef of the Year 2022. Elliot took the title with his Pumpkin Risotto. Chairman of the judges, Paul Gayler, commented, “It was another hotly contested final this year, one of…

Nestlé Professional is delighted to announce this year’s Toque d’Or® Competition finalists. 38 competitors took part in the National Heats stage of the competition putting into practice everything they had learned so far on balanced diets. This has now been narrowed down to just 9…

Who will be crowned the National Chef of the Year in the 50th anniversary of the competition? That’s going to be one of the most hotly anticipated questions in hospitality this year as the Craft Guild of Chefs celebrates half a century of the prestigious industry…

Renowned chef Alex Craciun is the UK ambassador for Japanese Wagyu Beef, working on behalf of JFOODO, the Japan Food Product Overseas Promotion Centre, which promotes Japanese agricultural, forestry, fishery, and food products abroad. Alex Craciun is, in the very truest sense, a student of…

Thirty-eight of the UK’s most promising college students and apprentices in hospitality have been shortlisted for the Heats in Nestlé Professional’s Toque d’Or®. Whittled down from more than 400 entrants from across the UK, competitors have already completed rigorous Selection and Qualification challenges. And with the…

Springboard UK has revealed that Paralympian champion, TV presenter and journalist – Ade Adepitan MBE – will present its Awards for Excellence 2022 on 7th April. Held at the Science Museum’s breath-taking Illuminate venue, the ceremony will reward outstanding achievements in hospitality, celebrating its finest…

Tickets have gone on sale for the 8th Zest Quest Asia Gala Dinner and Awards Night to be held on Friday, 8th April 2022 at the Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 (Hilton T5).  Food and drink broadcaster Nigel Barden will emcee the evening. The event…

Two new inspirational and highly respected Chairs of Judges have been revealed by the Craft Guild of Chefs for the UK’s most prestigious and sought-after culinary titles, National Chef of the Year (NCOTY) and Young National Chef of the Year (YNCOTY). Taking over from Paul…

Each year, in the weeks leading up to the release of the Michelin Guide to UK and Ireland, the speculation among chefs and business owners reaches fever pitch. Who will? Who won’t? Will there be a massive story? Will there be any casualties of demotion…