South West Chef of the Year competition

Top chef welcomes new batch of eager young students

It’s been a busy week for Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines and the city’s college proving once again that the city is in the forefront of driving excellence in hospitality and catering.

Last week the busy chef and restaurateur met up with the new group of eager students who have just started at Exeter College at the prestigious Michael Caines Academy and are keen to follow in his footsteps and those of the first group of Academy students already showing off their skills that have been honed in the last year. Designed to nurture the region’s future generation of talented...

South West Chef of the Year Awards Presentation Dinner

Event Date: 
29/10/2012 - 6:45pm to 11:00pm

The South West Chef of the Year Awards Presentation Dinner will be held at ABode Exeter on Monday 29th October, hosted by Michael Caines MBE and Taste of the West.

The dinner will be prepared by three highly-respected guest chefs who are all previous winners of the competition and are also judges at this year’s finals: Simon Hulstone, head chef of the Michelin-starred Elephant Restaurant, Torquay; Ian Webber, head chef of two Michelin-starred Gidleigh Park, Chagford and Matthew Mason, head chef of The Jack in the Green, Rockbeare voted 5th in the UK's 50 Top Gastropubs (Feb...