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Congratulations to Frederick Forster, crowned National Chef of the Year 2011
Head chef at Nuovo restaurant in South Woodford, Frederick’s winning dishes included sauté scallops with crab beignet and roasted breast of duck with braised thigh flavoured with smoked bacon.
Second and third places went to Alyn Williams of The Westbury and Hayden Groves of Lloyds of London.
For the first time at the competition, finalists were able to use Adande refrigerated two-drawer units, with the top drawer set to fridge mode and the bottom to freezer.
Four out of the eight finalists are either current users of Adande units or have used them in the past, see below.
David Mulcahy, organiser of the competition and vice president of the Craft Guild of Chefs, said: "The dishes produced by all the final eight were of such a high standard. Choosing a winner was never going to be easy, but all the judges were in agreement that Frederick created a winning menu from the original basket of ingredients. His menu was innovative, well planned and brilliantly executed on the day under enormous pressure.”
Judges included: Bruce Poole, Chris Galvin, Angela Hartnett, Atul Kochhar, Vivek Singh, Andrew Bennett, Gary Hunter, Mark Flanagan, Henry Brosi and Graham Hornigold.
Aside from being awarded the esteemed title of The National Chef of the Year 2011, Frederick received a prize fund worth in excess of £12,000 including an exclusive study trip to France, plus a wine tasting in the acclaimed Hermitage region and dinner at a 3-starred Michelin restaurant.
The finalists at The National Chef of the Year 2011
Craig Beacham - Sous Chef, The Elephant Restaurant & Brassiere
David Bush- Senior Chef de Partie, House of Commons
Richard Edwards - Head Chef, Park Restaurant, Lucknam Park Hotel. Lucknam has some of the original four-drawer Adande units.
Frederick Forster- Head Chef, Nuovo Restaurant
Hayden Groves -- Executive chef at Lloyds of London, Avenance. Uses Adande two-drawer units.
Joe McCafferty - Senior Chef de Partie, ROKA Restaurant
Simon Webb -- Head chef at Restaurant Associates. Used Adande previously.
Alyn Williams - Chef Patron at Alyn Williams at The Westbury. Uses Adande two-drawer units.
