Tom Kitchin
Tom Kitchin, 29, is the youngest ever proprietor-chef in Scotland to have been awarded a Michelin star.
The star was awarded at his Leith restaurant, The Kitchin, only seven months after he opened it with his wife, Michaela. Kitchin was born in Edinburgh and trained locally, after which he spent nearly a decade working with the legendary Pierre Koffmann in three-Michelin-starred La Tante Claire in London, and Koffmann remains his mentor to-date.
Kitchin also spent two years at Alan Ducasse’s three-star Louis XV restaurant in Monte Carlo
Kitchin got to the finals in the 2008 series of the Great British Menu on BBC2, and represented Scotland again the following year. His book From Nature to Plate was published in 2009 (Orion).
Mark Sargeant
Mark Sargeant is an award-winning chef and former Head Chef of Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred restaurant at Claridge's in London.
Born in Kent, Mark trained at West Kent College and was voted Young Chef of the Year in 1996 and National Chef of the Year in 2002. He worked for Gordon Ramsay for 13 years first at Aubergine in 1998 before spending three years as Sous Chef at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea from 1998 to 2001. He left there to open the highly acclaimed Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's where he was Head Chef from 2001 to 2008, earning a Michelin star in 2002.
Since his work alongside Gordon on Hell’s Kitchen and The F Word, Mark has delved further into cooking on screen with appearances on The Great British Menu, Market Kitchen and Saturday Kitchen, and has contributed to live shows Taste of London 2010 and the BBC Good Food Show.
Having collaborated with Gordon Ramsay on over ten of his book publications and co-authored Gordon Ramsay's Great British Pub Food (HarperCollins 2009), Mark has written his own book My Kind of Cooking, to be published in 2011.
Skills for Chefs 2011
