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Westminster Kingsway College wins first ever Asian Junior Chefs Challenge

Sam Jones, Theophil Dalton-Maag and Nathan Gayle of Westminster Kingsway College have been named the first team winners of the Junior Asian Chef Challenge 2013. Competing against University College Birmingham and University of West London in the final at Hilton London Heathrow Terminal 5, the culinary competition formulated by chef Cyrus Todiwala and The Master Chefs of Great Britain was designed to raise awareness and interest in Asian cuisine among home-grown aspiring chefs. Read more from Caterer & Hotelkeeper

Ruby's night on the tiles... and on Twitter: Bake Off finalist drowns her sorrows on pub crawl after tweeting her way through last show

She sobbed her way through all 11 weeks of The Great British Bake off, only to fall at the final hurdle. So when Ruby Tandoh’s ordeal was over at last, she certainly had plenty of sorrows to drown. The disappointed contestant headed straight to her local pub

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to get ‘absolutely trolleyed’ – and kept her Twitter followers updated every step of the way. Read more from Mail Online

Name of Andre Garrett's Cliveden restaurant revealed

Andre Garrett's new restaurant is to be called Andre Garrett at Cliveden and will open on 18 November. Garrett was appointed executive head chef at the five-star Cliveden country house hotel in Berkshire in August this year. He was previously head chef at Galvin at Windows on the 28th floor of the London Hilton Park Lane. Read more from Caterer & Hotelkeeper

Keyworth Tavern is first pub in Britain where you can order a beer on a mobile phone app

THE pub is packed, and it's your round. You want more beers, but punters are three-deep at the bar and you don't want to interrupt your vital argument about who'd win a fight between a lion, a tiger and a dolphin with lasers. What do you do? If you're in the Keyworth Tavern, you pull out your smartphone and use a new "app". Read more from Nottingham Post

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