Blue Skye thinking?
Last February, not five months after winning a Michelin star for her food at Petersham Nurseries Skye Gyngell decided that enough was enough. Initially denied by Petersham management, the story gathered pace until three days after the story broke it was confirmed. Needless to say Miss Gyngell tried her best to deflect the unwanted criticism, … Read more
Carry on Heckfield
For those of you who read chefhermes.com and follow the blog on Twitter, you will have noticed that I did one of my legendary ‘Latest Rumour’ tweets. So for those of you that missed it here it is: *LATEST RUMOUR | ChefHermes: After the departure earlier this year of @ChrisStaines1 to Bath,Heckfeild to announce Peter … Read more
A New Challenge for Chris Staines
The chef at the heart of this post is probably one of the most written about on chefhermes.com . The initial post which featured him in September 2010, was about him taking a secondment to The Feversham Arms, written prior to any website knowing about it. Subsequently Mr Staines got in touch and agreed to … Read more
Words of Advice ~ Chris Staines
There comes a time when you meet people who are, despite what they have achieved or who they have worked for are so modest and approachable that it came as quite a shock. Despite being Marco Pierre White’s former Head Chef at ‘Oakroom Marco Pierre White’ at the pinnacle of 3 Michelin stars, being awarded … Read more
It’s Grim Up North…….
Late yesterday evening, the Chef Hermes Blog were notified of a significant recruitment move. The name mentioned has been out of the scene for some 18 months or so, but now it looks like he’s taken a fixed term contract in North Yorkshire. We’re of course talking about the former 5 rosette and Michelin starred … Read more
