A celebrated hotel, restaurant and bar on the Jurassic Coast has announced a calendar of guest chef suppers throughout 2024.
The Seaside Boarding House in Burton Bradstock, which has made the finals of this year's Trencherman Awards for 'Best Hotel', will be showcasing seven more guest chefs this year after a successful first event with Anna Tobias, from Café Deco.
A spokesperson for the hotel and restaurant, said: "The guest chef series provides the opportunity for The Seaside Boarding House team to work with some of the most exciting culinary talent operating in the UK, showcasing a range of cuisines from modern European to Malaysian.
"For the chefs it will be a chance to work with some of the brilliant local produce that Dorset has to offer.
"In a whistle-stop residency, each guest chef will join The Seaside Boarding House team in the kitchen for one day, cooking a three-course menu for lunch and dinner, with 50 covers for each."
A full list of guest chefs appearing at the Seaside Boarding House this year:
Hector Henderson - April 20
Progeny of culinary royalty Fergus and Margot Henderson, Hector has proven that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, taking the reigns as head chef of the estimable Rochelle Canteen.
Will Bowlby - May 18
After falling in love with Indian food whilst working in Mumbai, Will Bowlby returned to the UK to open Kricket, a collection of modern Indian restaurants combining British ingredients with the flavours and aromas of India.
Jeremy Lee - June 28
Chef Proprietor at Quo Vadis in Soho, Jeremy Lee has previously manned the stoves of Blueprint Café and worked with such distinguished restaurateurs as Simon Hopkinson and Alastair Little, who all played a considerable part in the great resurgence of modern British cooking.
Marvin Jones - July 13
Executive Chef Marvin leads the kitchen operations at El Pastor Stoney Street, Casa Pastor, El Pastor Soho and the upcoming El Pastor Battersea. El Pastor is a small group of Mexican restaurants in London, inspired by the decade that founders Sam Hart and Crispin Somerville spent in Mexico City, running cult nightclub El Colmillo and searching for the city’s best al pastor taco.
Patrick Williams - September 28
South African born Patrick Williams began his career in Cape Town, before venturing to London where he worked under renowned chef Robin Gill and met his now wife, Amy Corbin. The duo opened their first restaurant, Kudu, in 2018 to critical acclaim, followed by two further ventures, Kudu Grill, and their most recent opening, Little Kudu, a South African-inspired tapas and wine bar.
Abby Lee - October 19
Born in Singapore and of Chinese-Malay descent, Abby Lee is the head chef and founder of Mambow, whose modern interpretation of regional Malaysian cuisine - and described by Marina O ‘Loughlin as ‘a quiet magician of Malaysian cookery’ - has made her restaurant one of London’s most exciting places to eat.
Rick Toogood - November 23
Husband and wife duo Rick and Katie opened Prawn on the Lawn in London in 2013 as a fishmonger and seafood bar with just eight seats, moving to a bigger site just down the street in 2015. A second site followed in Padstow, Cornwall.
Tables for all chefs suppers will be bookable one month prior to the event.
To find out more visit www.theseasideboardinghouse.com
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