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Five time chef to HM the Queen set to head top culinary line up at Loughborough College event

Posted: 9th March 2017 - 3:54pm
Five time chef to HM the Queen set to head top culinary line up at Loughborough College event

A chef who has cooked for Her Majesty the Queen no fewer than five times, including at the Royal Jubilee celebrations, is set to head a top culinary line up at a sell out Loughborough College event.

The high profile guest chef night on 16 March will see Rob Kennedy, Alan Paton, Layla Beaumont and Adam Lestrelle produce a five course dinner at the Radmoor Restaurant.

As well as cooking for royalty, Kennedy was a gold medal winner at the 2016 International Culinary Olympics - where Loughborough College Hospitality and Catering Lead Darren Creed joined him on the National Culinary Team of England, also winning a medal. Kennedy’s gold medal is just one of 85 culinary accolades won by the Royal Military Academy Executive Chef over the past decade. He appears on the BBC, Channel 4 and Sky and is a regular personality at major food shows, as well as on competition judging panels and in support a range of charities.

Darren Creed has organized the guest chef night with the support of Murray Chapman’s Passion to Inspire, which works with colleges, farms and top chefs to encourage and support young people in their aspirations to join the industry. Students from Loughborough College have been invited to participate in a range of prestigious events with the charity.

The exciting menu for the night will see Kennedy create Roast Cornish Rump, neck fillet doughnuts , smooth celeriac, broccoli , haggis crumble, mint and lamb gravy. Alan Paton’s course will meanwhile consist of Confit Dingley Dell pork belly, roast mackerel, carrot buttercream, candied bacon almonds, gin spiked blueberries, marzipan and jus.

Alan is the Group Executive Head Chef of Stoke By Nayland Hotel, Golf and Spa in Colchester. He is a member of The Master Chefs of Great Britain, a prestigious body that seeks to promote all that is best about British cuisine and has been elected onto the committee of the Craft Guild of Chefs.

Adam Lestrelle will be cooking Gressingham duck, Smoked parsnip and wildflower honey.

Self taught, Adam worked his way up to head chef before being spotted by Rob Kennedy and joining him as sous chef at the Royal Military Academy. Adam recently won a God medal, Best in Class and Best in Show at the 2017 Hospitality Show Salon Culinaire.

Alan will also be taking the lead for White Chocolate with Alfonzo Mango and Hazelnut and Layla Beaumont will create Opera Cake to finish the meal.

After starting her cake business with the Princes Trust in 2006, Layla went on to study Patisserie and was invited to spend time in the Kitchen of Rhodes 24. She has also worked in the kitchens of William Curly and Michelin-starred Sat Bains and in 2015 was part of a brigade that cooked for the Queens Guards at Buckingham Palace. Layla has also built and developed a catering department at the CE Academy in Northamptonshire, a school for young people removed from mainstream education.

“It is a great privilege to welcome such an esteemed group of industry figures to Loughborough College for our guest chef night,” said Darren Creed.

“Murray and Passion to Inspire have given us some fantastic opportunities and we are enormously grateful for his help in arranging this extremely special evening at our Radmoor Restaurant.

“We will have 24 students involved in the preparation and the event itself and it will be wonderful experience for them work shoulder to shoulder with chefs who are at the leading edge of catering.

“There are seventy covers in the restaurant and we are fully booked – and with the numbers we have on our waiting list we could fill the restaurant again.

“It is set to be a fantastic evening.”