Kitchin and Gray to take on Great British Menu
Tom Kitchin, Edinburgh’s young Michelin-star chef will go head to head with Matthew Gray of Inverlochy Castle in the BBC television programme, The Great British Menu.
The programme, which pits the best of the UK's culinary stars against each other, has created menus in the past for The Queen and the British Ambassador in Paris.
This year the finalists will cook a dinner in London's iconic Gherkin Building for an invited guest list of 50 of the world's best chefs, as well as gourmets and celebrities who represent a cross-section of modern Britain one of the most expert and critical audiences the contestants have yet faced.
The highly talented chefs from Scotland included Tom Kitchin of The Kitchin, Michael Smith of The Three Chimneys, Matthew Gray of Inverlochy Castle and Tony Singh of Oloroso and Roti.
Each of the seven regions will have two chefs selected by judge Matthew Fort to go through to represent their region in the next round. The winner of each region will cook their entire menus for the Great British Menu judges Matthew Fort, Prue Leith and Oliver Peyton in the national finals.
The show, presented by Heston Blumenthal, will then ask a UK-wide audience to pick the winner by telephone poll.
Tom, who is representing Scotland at the Tartan Week extravaganza in New York at the end of March, said: "I am honoured to be through to the next round against Matthew Gray. He is a great chef and does some fantastic food up at Inverlochy Castle. The Great British Menu is a real challenge and the pressure is really on, but the great advantage we have in Scotland is the outstanding quality of the raw ingredients."
Tom added: "Scotland has the best beef, lamb, venison and game in the world and the clean waters off our coast provide us with fish and shellfish which is the envy of chefs everywhere. With that head start, I am confident that Scotland will hold its own in the competition."
Words: Clare Riley
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