Depression by Johnnie Mountain.
In the two year history of ChefHermes.com nobody else has ever written or edited a post, that is until now. For those of you that have been watching the North West series of Great British Menu, you will have witnessed the roller-coaster of emotions that the chefs are put through. Today, Johnnie Mountain approached me: … Read more
Worlds 50 Best, The culinary version of Eurovision.
So it’s that time of year again & the Worlds 50 Best Restaurant list has been release. After starting the day watching tweets of the many being over hyped because they were having breakfast with Ferran Adria amongst others. The former 3Michelin starred chef & record winner of the 50 Best Restaurant was in … Read more
Out & About ~ Gidleigh Park, Devon
There are many questions I get asked about Michelin rated & higher end food; but one that crops up on a regular basis is people enquiring about Gidleigh Park. My reply is always the same. Gidleigh Park is one of the very few places where you can go and be made to feel special, irrelevant … Read more
Book Review ~ Eleven Madison Park, The Cookbook
As I may have mentioned once or twice on ChefHermes.com I have regular chats on Twitter with a chef called Jon Jones. Besides the regular ass whooping I hand him on the ‘who can do the first #FF (Friday follow)’ we generally chat about all things catering & food related. In more recent times he … Read more
Out & about: Launch of Newport Food Festival 2012
Often I’m working away on site when there are launch parties & get togethers that I’d like to attend, not out of some grandiose level of self importance, but because it’s always good to promote a product or event based on the information I have rather than something that a PR firm is trying to … Read more
Showing how flawed Jonathan Meades was in the Daily Telegraph.
Towards the tail end of February, the former Times restaurant critic penned an article for the Daily Telegraph, entitled “Blinded by the Michelin stars in their eyes”. Having had plenty of experience with the impact of the little red book, I thought it might be worth a read. Maybe I, along with Mr Meades, shouldn’t … 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
2012, A Guide to foodie festivals.
The idea for the this post was spawned sometime early last year. When I can, I watch my twitter feed of approx 700 or so people update itself and enjoy the banter of 140 characters. There are times when various foodies, journalists, writers & chefs will ask for help, in one form or another, and … Read more
2011, A year in review
2011 was a landmark year for Chefhermes.com, it’s the first full twelve month period that the blog has been going and after a long hiatus I finally moved to hosting. As with most things IT related there are the usual hiccups but nothing major. The advantage of this is that I now have full control … Read more
