This year for the platter design, Bocuse d’Or UK Academy commissioned designer, Bodo Sperlein. Inspired by the Welsh hills of his childhood, the tiered platter is made of polished metal and wood and is accompanied by a set of stoneware and platinum luster glaze dishes. The dishes were handmade in London using a stoneware that echoes the texture of the weathered rock found on the hills. Continue reading Bocuse d’Or UK Platter
L’Oeuf d’Or Soft boiled hen’s egg with garlic filigree, market salad, Albenga asparagus with almond, emulsion of Castelmagno cheese Continue reading The Golden Egg – Tom Phillips’ egg dish, Turin 2018
THE MENU “With ingredients so pure, that we’ve grown ourselves you don’t have to do too much to them, it’s always going to taste a little bit better.” Wellington of Fassona Piemontese beef fillet and veal sweetbread with Wiltshire ham and ox tongue Wye Valley Asparagus, Old Winchester cheese and Yorkshire wild garlic Salt baked Staffordshire turnip, wild horseradish Fried beetroot and Baraggia Biellese Vercellese rice cake with Scottish pine … Continue reading Team UK Bocuse d’Or Platter
Candidate Tom Phillips always visualises his dishes before they are realised. Here are his sketches for the European Qualifiers Continue reading Sketches to Reality – Team UK Menu, Turin 2018
Thank you so much to GL EVENTS for this lovely collection of Bocuse Memories for TEAM UK! Continue reading Team UK Video Competing in Turin, June 2018
Bocuse d’Or Team UK has secured a place in the world final, which will take place from January 29-30, 2019 in Lyon. The team, led by candidate Tom Phillips from Restaurant Story in London, secured tenth position in the European heat of the competition, which was won by Christian André Pettersen from Norway. Sweden’s Sebastian Gibrand took the silver trophy with Kenneth Toft-Hansen winning bronze … Continue reading Team UK secure place in the Bocuse d’Or world final
The Bocuse d’Or UK Academy dinner which took place in the Atrium restaurant of University College Birmingham on Friday 23 February raised more than £33,000 for the UK Team. The funds will go towards supporting candidate Tom Phillips as he trains to compete in the Bocuse d’Or European heats on June 11 2018. Team UK is one of 20 countries confirmed to take part in the … Continue reading Bocuse d’Or UK Academy raises £33,000 to support Team UK’s Bocuse d’Or Europe ambitions
The last step for Europe before going to the Olympics of Gastronomy will take place in Turin, Italy, from June 11th to 12th 2018 For the very first time in the history of the contest, the Bocuse d’Or Europe event will take place in Southern Europe. After Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and Hungary, it is now Italy’s turn – and the region of Piedmont in … Continue reading BOCUSE D’OR IN TURIN: THE 20 COMPETING COUNTRIES UNVEILED TODAY
