Experience

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  Self Employed

  • Executive Director

    • Sep 2015 - Present

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  Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club

  • Steak Chef

    • Mar 2019 - Oct 2022

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  The Lundy Company

  • Lundy Island

  • Head Chef

    • Dec 2011 - Oct 2015
    • Lundy Island

    Chef at the Marisco Tavern - voted "Best Pub On Lundy" every year since 1868.

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  Self-Employed

  • Unemployed Lay About

    • Nov 2011 - Nov 2011

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  The Tors Hotel

  • Relief Sous Chef

    • Apr 2011 - Nov 2011

    Rosette standard restaurant specialising in local produce. Weekly agency contract with normal sous chef duties including deputising for head chef and covering breakfast shifts.

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  Hungry Fox

  • Head Chef

    • Jun 2010 - Apr 2011

    The Hungry Fox, Broadclyst Exeter70 cover country pub with pretty much everything cooked in-house using mainly local produce. Pub-style core menu with restaurant standard specials which included local seasonal game and Plymouth fish.

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  9 The Quay

  • Head Chef

    • Jun 2008 - May 2010

    9 The Quay, Appledore North DevonTwo tier waterfront operation with upstairs 28 cover rosette standard restaurant and downstairs 30 cover coffee shop/bistro with small quayside terrace. Specialised in Exmoor meats, local free-range poultry and day-boat fish.

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  Self-Employed

  • Relief Chef

    • Feb 2006 - May 2008

    Working a mix of agency and self-employed contacts covering mostly head chef positions around the West Country. Contracts included a season for the Bath Hotel, Lynmouth (agency) and a self-employed start-up for the Portsmouth Arms Umberleigh.

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  Old Inn

  • Head Chef

    • Nov 2004 - Feb 2006

    The Old Inn, Widecombe in the Moor DartmoorBusy country pub in the middle of Dartmoor with capacity for 3000+ meals weekly (busiest single service 486 lunches on my last August Bank Holiday - average wait time for food 12 minutes!!). Good value home-cooked pub food with a few upmarket touches and particularly renowned for our locally sourced steaks, cut and cooked to order.

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  Anchor Inn, Canewdon

  • Head Chef

    • Jan 2001 - Nov 2004

    Multi-award winning village pub including 5 stars on the Southend Evening Echo.

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  Self-Employed

  • as chef/proprietor

    • Jan 1988 - Jan 2001

    Initially set up as freelance relief chef based in Cambridge early contracts included an 18 month Head Chef stint with Forte at Huntingdon, working with several of the Cambridge colleges on specific functions (including the Honorary Degree Day lunch for Corpus Christi with Prince Philip on the top table), outside catering including sub-contract work at Newmarket races and private dinner parties. Worked with Post Office Catering (Quadrant) as opening Chef/Manager at the new sorting office in Cambridge and then took on a lease at The Woodman, Duddenhoe End, Essex. Moved to West Country in 1996 with relief positions including The Buckerell Lodge, Exeter (for whom I still do odd stints), Two Bridges Hotel, Dartmoor, Red Lion, Clovelly and the Ilchester Arms, Ilchester - all of these latter were rosetted during my time with them. Finally during this period went into

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  Best Fresh Food Pub

  • Apprentice

    • Jan 1975 - Jan 1988

    Various EstablishmentsStarting as an apprentice at The Drumnadrochit Hotel, Inverness-shire, with day-release to Inverness Tech, I worked my way up through the trade with (in order): 2 years as Commis at The Portland Hotel, Manchester; a couple of Chef de Partie stints around Manchester; Chef Tournant at The St Andrews Golf Hotel (including during the 1983 Open); Sous Chef position at Stourport-on-Severn and