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Shortlist announced for 2015 Craft Guild of Chefs' Awards

13th April 2015
Written by: Admin
The nominees have been announced for the 2015 Craft Guild of Chefs' Awards to be held at the Hilton Park Lane hotel on June 15th 2015.

The awards ceremony will be one of many highlights during the Craft Guild's 50th anniversary celebrations.

Nuno Mendes's 'super-trendy' Chiltern Firehouse restaurant is amongst three London-based nominees in the New Restaurant of the Year category. Alongside him is Jason Atherton's City Social, Lee Westcott's Typing Room and from Newcastle, Kenny Atkinson's House of Tides.

The award for this category will be amongst 16 highly coveted awards handed out on the night covering all aspects of the UK chef industry from Public Sector to Ethinic and the Armed Forces' Chef of the Year.

There is also recognition for the upcoming chefs with both the Young and Apprentice Chef categories generating huge amounts of entries.

Finally, one Special Award will be handed out on the night to a chef who has excelled over many years in the industry.

For more information on the 2015 Awards and the Craft Guild of Chefs click here

The full list of nominees can be found below:
Apprentice Chef Award
Charlie Aggett, Hartwell House Hotel
Ben Garnett-Sinclair, Lusso
Reece Kallah, Galvin at Windows

Armed Services Chef Award
Andrew Durham, Royal Navy
Amrit Limbu,  10th QOGLR/Army
Jonathon Smith, Royal Air Force

Banqueting & Event Chef Award
Alex Boyd, Chester Boyd
Trevor Garden, Sodexo Prestige
Mark Reynolds, Delaware North

Chef Lecturer Award
David Bittlestone, Compass Group UK & Ireland
Ken Ellis, Sussex Downs College
Gary MacLean, City of Glasgow College

Competition Chef Award
Adam Bennett, The Cross at Kenilworth
Jamie Gibbs, Compass Group UK & Ireland
Robert Kennedy, Compass Group UK & Ireland

Concept & Innovation Award
Bodeans
TED – Think, Eat, Drink

Contract Catering Chef Award
Mark Cheetham,  Sodexo UK
Glynn Lawrence,  Sodexo Prestige
Stuart Nisbet, Elior UK
Richard Skinner, Artizian Catering Services

Development Chef Award
Anthony Bennett, La Tasca Restaurant Group
Keith Burton, Sodexo UK
Diane Camp, Reynolds Catering Supplies Ltd

Ethnic Chef Award
Stephen Gomes, Moksh
Saurav Nath, Inito
Chad Rahman, Chez Mumtaj Restaurant

New Restaurant of the Year Award
Chiltern Firehouse
City Social
House of Tides
Typing Room

Pastry Chef Award
Jonathan Belford, Levy Restaurants
Daniel Pearse, Hakkasan  
Stephen Tarling, Daylesford Organic

Peoples Choice Award
Allan Blackmore, Levy Restaurants
Billy Campbell, Thistle Glasgow Hotel
Al Crisci, The Clink Restaurants
Jiri Koutny, Edinburgh Marriott
Pilu Pazos, Lakefield College

Pub Restaurant Chef Award
Ray Brenner, The Peach Pub Company
Scott Fairweather, The Punch Bowl Inn & Restaurant
Gordon Stott, The Sun Inn

Public Sector Chef Award
Rob Bean, University of Leicester
Scott Pring, Bridgewater College
Martin Rowe, Quantum Care

Restaurant Chef Award
Mark Greenaway, Restaurant Mark Greenaway
Thomas Lawson,  Rafters Restaurant
Adam Smith, Devonshire Arms Country House Hotel

Young Chef Award
Craig Bateman, Compass Group UK & Ireland
Sean Creamer, Aldea
Jack Vassallo, Grosvenor House Hotel