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Chef and restaurateur, Bains was born in Derby and moved to Nottingham when he was 21. After passing his City and Guilds qualification, he was chosen to be part of a team that opened the first of Raymond Blanc's brasseries. A spell at L'Escargot in...

Competitors had four hours to dish up eight portions of a three course meal, which were then served up to diners and judges. The winning dish comprised of assiette of start bay crab with bisque, potted white meat and crab claw salad with puff pastry...

Competitors had four hours to dish up eight portions of a three course meal, which were then served up to diners and judges. The winning dish consisted of chilli pickle served hara mackerel, a green spiced mackerel fillet with grapefruit and jimbu...

The Good Food Guide: Recipes is a recipe collection, published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UK's bestselling restaurant guide. It showcases 60 of the UK's leading chefs, their restaurants and recipes. The Harvey Nichols evenings will...

Two heats are being held at Pembrokeshire College, Haverfordwest on Wednesday, October 20 and Deeside College, Connah's Quay on Thursday, October 21. The two heat winners and the two highest scoring runners up will go through to a final cook-off at...

Key speakers included chairman John Thorley OBE and director of the Academy of Culinary Arts, Sara Jayne Stanes OBE. Steve Powdrill, national selection specialist from EBLEX, also took to the stand to explain the importance of the work done on the...

Thornley demonstrated how the new KNORR gravy and demi glace sauce mixes are a quick and efficient way to create tasty meals. The aim of the session was also to demonstrate ways for operators to increase customer satisfaction. Using simple butchery...

He beat off four other top chocolatiers and pastry chefs to take the title and he will now represent Great Britain in the world final at the Salon du Chocolat in Paris in October 2011. Runner up was Ruth Hinks, the competition's first UK female...

But introducing the report on the future of the industry at a reception at the House of Commons, Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive, said that global competition represented a real threat to British hospitality and tourism. "China is a country that has...