Jamie Trevor Oliver MBE OSI is a British restaurateur and cookbook author. He is known for his casual approach to cuisine, which has led him to front numerous television shows and open many restaurants.
Gordon James Ramsay is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur, television presenter, and writer. His restaurant group, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, was founded in 1997 and has been awarded 17 Michelin stars overall and currently holds seven. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held three Michelin stars since 2001. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1999, Ramsay became one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the world.
Conrad Gallagher is an Irish-born chef/restaurateur from Letterkenny, County Donegal, based in Dubai since 2016. He was the youngest chef ever awarded a Michelin star at the time, for Peacock Alley in Dublin, at the age of 26 in 1998. In a career that has attracted both accolades and controversy, Gallagher has owned restaurants in Dublin, New York, London, Las Vegas and Cape Town, and has featured in two reality television cooking series. He opened restaurant consultancy Food Concepts 360 in 2018. Gallagher also owns chef recruitment agency The Chefs Connection and opened The Chefs Playground in Johannesburg, South Africa, in April 2020 as a culinary training centre and specialist shop for chefs’ apparel and equipment. In February 2021, Gallagher opened "Off the Menu Food Emporium", a delicatessen, coffee and wine shop serving tapas-style meals, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He also opened Bistro Vin de Boeuf, in St Francis Bay.
Nepalese in the United Kingdom are British citizens or full-time residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in Nepal. According to ONS estimates in 2019 there were 76,000 Nepalese-born people in the country.
Overseas Nepalis or Non-Resident Nepalis are Nepali people who live outside the South Asian nation of Nepal.
Norman bin Musa is a Malaysian born chef, author, TV host, tutor, restaurateur and entrepreneur, based in The Hague, The Netherlands. Born in Butterworth, Penang in Malaysia, he was the co-founder of Ning restaurant in Manchester and Executive Chef of Wah Nam Hong Restaurant in The Hague, The Netherlands and author of the Amazing Malaysian cookbook.
TheBritish Curry Awards is an annual awards dinner dedicated to the British curry industry. It was established in 2005 by Enam Ali and has continued to this day. Each individual award is split for geographic purposes — regional splits of Scotland, North West, North East, Midlands, Wales, South East, South West, London Central and City, and London Suburbs — and expertise. The awards themselves are in association with JustEat.com, an online food delivery service. The 16th edition of the British Curry Awards is set to take place on the date TBC December 2020 at the Battersea Evolution.
Thomas Kerridge is an English chef. After initially appearing in several small television parts as a child actor, he decided to attend culinary school at the age of 18. He has since worked at a variety of British restaurants, including the Rhodes in the Square and Adlards.
Monica Galetti is a Samoan-born New Zealand Chef. She is a judge on the BBC competitive cooking programme MasterChef: The Professionals and chef proprietor of Mere in London. She was senior sous-chef at Le Gavroche in London. As well as appearing as a judge on MasterChef: The Professionals from 2009 to 2021, she has presented Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby with Giles Coren and Rob Rinder since 2017.
Romy Gill MBE is a British/Indian chef, food writer, author and broadcaster. She was the owner and head chef at Romy's Kitchen in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. In 2016 she was appointed an MBE in the Queen's 90th birthday honours list. Romy has amassed a number of television and radio appearances, including presenting, co-presenting and judging roles. She regularly contributes to national and international publications, including The New York Times, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.
Michael O'Hare is a British chef from Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. He is chef-patron at The Man Behind The Curtain in Leeds, which was awarded a Michelin star in October 2015. He is also Creative Director of GG Hospitality and oversees the company's restaurant The Rabbit in the Moon at the National Football Museum in Manchester.
Adam Handling is a British chef and restaurateur. He is the owner of the Adam Handling Restaurant Group which encompasses four food and drink venues across United Kingdom.
James "Jocky" Petrie is a Scottish professional chef, best known for his work alongside chef Heston Blumenthal as head of development of the Experimental Kitchen at The Fat Duck, and as Group Executive Development Chef for Gordon Ramsay. He has regularly appeared as mentor and judge on a number of television shows including MasterChef, Heston's Fantastical Food, In Search of Perfection, and Top Chef Suomi.
Nisha Katona, MBE is a British chef and TV presenter. She is the founder of Mowgli Street Food restaurants and the Mowgli Trust charity, a food writer and television presenter. She was a child protection barrister for 20 years.
Gary Maclean is a Scottish chef, author and the first National Chef of Scotland.
Natalie Coleman is a British chef and winner of the 2013 series of MasterChef. She is now the head chef of The Garrison in London and won Best Pub Chef at the 2022 Great British Pub Awards.
Suresh Pillai, commonly known as Chef Pillai, is an Indian-born British chef and restaurateur. He worked as chef de partie, sous-chef, and chef de cuisine at various restaurants in London for 14 years, including Veeraswamy and Gymkhana. He holds British citizenship. In 2017, he contested in the British reality TV show MasterChef: The Professionals on BBC Two. He returned to India to become the corporate chef and culinary director of The Raviz. He also started his own restaurant chain branded Restaurant Chef Pillai.
Philip Howard is a South African-British chef, chef patron, and restaurateur. He gained cooking skills while working under Marco Pierre White at Harveys and Simon Hopkinson at Bibendum. Howard and White's then-business partner Nigel Platts-Martin opened London restaurant The Square in December 1991, despite both of their inexperience in operating a restaurant at the time.
Jomon Kuriakose, also known as Chef Jomon, is the Executive Chef at LaLiT London, England making him one of the youngest executive chefs in London. He was previously the Chef de Cusine at LaLiT London. senior Chef de Partie and then Sous-chef under Vivek Singh (chef) at the Cinnamon Collections in London. He has also participated in MasterChef 2018 where he trained Spencer Matthews and Frankie Bridge.
