CULINARY TRAVEL INFO

Aged 18, Steven Doherty began as an apprentice at the Savoy. He then moved to Le Gavroche as a Commis Chef and gradually worked his up to the role of Chef de Partie followed by a two year stage to the Alain Chapel’s restaurant in France before returning to become a Sous Chef for Albert Roux’s. Le Gavroche went on to gain three Michelin stars making Steven the first ever British head chef at a three Michelin-starred establishment.

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Thanks to his Mum encouraging him to bake cakes, Bryan Webb side-stepped a job down the mines - as a school-leaving Valleys boy at that time was expected to do - opting to become a chef instead. As luck would have it, his first job was with Sonia and Neville Blech at The Crown in Whitebrook, near Monmouth - the only Michelin starred restaurant in Wales.

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Gary Rhodes is one of Britain’s best-loved Michelin-starred chefs. He has restaurants in London, Dublin, Grenada and on board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean sea. He appears regularly on television, most recently in Hell’s Kitchen and Local Food Heroes, and is one of the stars in spandex on BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ this autumn.

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Martin Burge was brought up in Bristol and originally trained at Brunel Technical College. Having emerged with distinctions his first job was under Michael Croft at the Royal Crescent Hotel in Bath. When Croft moved to London to run the kitchen at Mirabelle, 21 year old Burge went with him, before moving on to Pied a Terre under Richard Neat.

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Good food is an important ingredient in any holiday. The discerning gourmet traveller deciding to try the tastes of Copenhagen, will never be disappointed. Danish cuisine blends European influences with its traditionally excellent dairy produce, organic vegetables and fruits and high quality local ingredients from sustainable farms and the surrounding waters. This year the Danish capital has been awarded no less than 12 stars. This puts the city above Rome, Berlin, Vienna and every other Scandinavian capital when it comes to quality gourmet restaurants.

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The world’s biggest arts festival is nearly upon us and this year there’s definitely more than creative juices flowing: visitors to the festival will find their lips watering at over 40 food-orientated offerings on the programme. There’s even a special “Foodies at the Festival” event featuring Edinburgh’s three Michelin-starred chefs and ten other top Scottish favourites, not to mention an opportunity for visitors to get their teeth into local Scottish produce from the 70 stands there.

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