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The Ivys executive chef on his love of boxing, memories of eating at Alain Ducasses Benoit in Paris, and watching Mark Hix on Great British Menu. What was your first industry job?​ My first job was as a pot washer at 14 years old, but then whilst at college I worked in a carvery in Chingford called the Queen Elizabeth. This was my first insight into hospitality. If you weren’t in kitchens, what would you do?​ I would be a Boxer – fitness is very important to ...

Get ready for an evening to remember… In celebration of the upcoming Gulfood festival, Armani Hotel is set to host a special dinner prepared by critically acclaimed chefs. The world’s largest annual food and beverage exhibition will take place between February 21 and 25, but on the evening of February 23, you’ll be able to enjoy this exclusive dinner. Each of the chefs chosen to prepare a dish on the night have been at the helm of Michelin-star restaurants, from all over the globe. As you...

Angela’s charity has dished out hot meals to hungry key workers during the pandemic What’s a kitchen whiz to do when Covid closes her restaurants? In Angela’s case, it’s whisk up 1,000 meals a day for NHS workers, as Francesca Babb discovers    When the first lockdown closed her restaurants last March, Angela Hartnett was quick to make the situation a little less bleak by teaming up with her friend Lulu Dillon to establish a nonprofit charity, Cook-19. They began making meals for NHS...

The best luxury hotels in London Cathy Adams and Harriet Hall © Provided by The Independent London has no shortage of hotels – and particularly luxury hotels, with old-world charm and new-world service. Traditionally, the capital’s luxury hotels were clustered in the upmarket enclaves of Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea, with ample high-end shopping opportunities on the doorstep. As the notion of luxury evolves, that’s all changing with a new breed of design-centric...

LONDON (AP) — Albert Roux, the French-born chef and restaurateur who along with his late brother Michel had a profound influence on British dining habits, has died at 85. Roux died Monday...

He and his brother started Le Gavroche, which became the first British restaurant to be awarded three Michelin stars.

But for the clammy embrace of an elderly priest, the culinary fortunes of this country might never have been the same.  As a boy of 14, Albert Roux was training for the priesthood in his native France when an unholy encounter with a smelly man of the cloth saw him switch from clerical robes to chefs whites. It was the most providential change of direction for his adopted country, Britain, whose eating habits he would change for ever. It was also a wise decision. I would have made a very bad pr...

Albert Roux, genius of the kitchen who brought classic French cuisine to 1960s Britain – obituary Telegraph Obituaries © Rex In the Gavroche kitchen, 1989 - Rex Albert Roux, the chef, who has died aged 85, championed the cause of excellence in British restaurant cooking for half a century. With his brother Michel, Roux was responsible for elevating the national reputation for food, which, when the pair of them arrived in London in 1967 was nothing short of abysmal. The rest...

Albert Roux owned Le Gavroche, the first restaurant in Britain to gain a Michelin star.

Submitting... Alongside his younger brother Michel, Roux founded Le Gavroche in London in 1967, followed by The Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire, in 1972. Le Gavroche, known for its classic take on French cuisine, was the first restaurant in the UK to gain one, then two, and then three Michelin stars. Albert’s death comes nine months after that of his brother, aged 78, following a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Born in the region of Saone et Loire in France on October 8 1935,...