Hosted by The Adams Restaurant on Stoney Street Nottingham, the last six contestants off the previous two years of the hit BBC television show MasterChef ‘the professionals’ have collaborated for a one-off lunch in the cities culinary educational hub.
The lunch, on 16 February, organised by local lecturer Colin Whittle and multi-award-winning chef and MasterChef star Rich Ó’Donnchü is to emphasize the need for more celebrity chefs to work with local colleges to increase their desire to get into catering as a career. Rich, whose first name is actually Rikku, claims that in the UK especially, that the industry itself is in a crisis.
‘There just aren’t enough real chefs anymore’ says Rich, whose career has seen him work at one Michelin star to three Michelin star restaurants over a 17 year period, such as the French Laundry under Chef Thomas Keller.
Appearing on adverts for PepsiCo in South Africa, he also now owns Lökī by Rikku in Stellenbosch, South Africa, just outside of Cape Town and is planning to take a place in the S.Pellegrino worlds top 50 restaurants list.
The other contestants, Zoe, Matt, Louis, Wayne and James have each brought a dish of there own to the menu, Zoe, famous for her pastry skills on the hit show is obviously taking up the dessert challenge for the very excited guests.
Zoe went over to Cape Town to work with Rich then staged at the famous Test Kitchen by Luke Dale Roberts, a worlds top 50 stop in the mother city, she is now the senior innovation chef for Waitrose, so you have likely already eaten some of her tasty cuisines.
This eight-course tasting menu is designed to excite and showcase exactly what the thousands watching the professions came to love.
The chefs are also being joined by Jordan Cox from the Great British Bake Off, a former student of the New college Nottingham itself.
This is set to be an exciting and entertaining meal from the six that is sure to impress.
