The Unsavoury Truth About Catering, from Jamie Oliver
Outrage erupted on various social networking sites this week after Jamie Oliver did an interview for The Observer newspaper to promote his new television programme. The quote which seems to have caused the most offence is probably a hard truth for the catering industry to accept, let alone swallow. Below are the sections unedited taken … Read more
Our view of the National Restaurant Awards
So as we near the end of the award season, last night was yet another excuse to get dressed up. The National Restaurant awards in London coincided with the Restaurant show. So having had the list for a little while now, it begs some of the same questions as when all these sort of award … Read more
Our view of the latest AA rosette awards
Yes it’s that time of year again where the great and the good of the catering industry gather for their annual awards from the AA. The dinner was held at the Hilton Park Lane in London with 5 rosette chef Marcus Wareing supplying dinner to the 700 guests consisting of Carpaccio of Beef, Halibut with … Read more
Yet another leaked guide book, Good Food Guide 2011
This post has been removed. . . The Chef Hermes blog would like to apologise unreservedly to Which? Publications. In the blog publishing a leak of the Good Food Guide 2011, we didn’t realise it would have caused such offence. The Blog has removed all prepublication & copyright material from the site and again would … Read more
Recipe ~ Tomato & Basil Consomme
Again we’ve been a touch busy, so here is our recipe for Tomato & Basil consomme, well actually the base of it is Gordon Ramsay’s which we’ve tweeked. Then after watching the culinary alchemist that is Heston Blumenthal, we realised that the recipe could be improved by applying some of Mr Blumenthal’s thinking. We’ve added … Read more
An update of 50 Best Restaurants, a review of our leak
So after we post our leak on the TableTalk forum, we received an incredible amount of interest in our little blog. Many thanks to all of you that took the time, it’s very flattering. Back to the subject in hand, as we said at the time we’d already done 2 posts on the Friday when our source … Read more
Everything that is wrong with catering !!!!!
I was saddened to learn to day of the death of Nathan Laity, not a name that will instantly spring to mind when talking about chefs. But Nathan unfortunately passed away in his sleep after doing on average 14hours a day for 27 straight days. That’s 100hours per week. Unfortunately this ‘letting the team down’ … Read more
