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While in prison she won a third Michelin star, and is finally getting ready to reopen her young London restaurant: Britain’s Claire Smith is making a comeback to her region amid a storm.
The 42-year-old North Irish woman is the first and only British woman to receive three Michelin stars in the UK, and only the fourth British chef to receive the award.
In complete captivity, the festivities ended abruptly: “We celebrated it with a bottle of champagne and pizza”, and the team’s video conference calls began in August 2017 in its restaurant, Notting Hill District.
The hotel and catering sector was particularly affected this winter, and was closed for long months. Due to border restrictions, restaurants will not welcome diners again until Monday, and they will not be able to count foreign tourists.
During the lockdown, the core team cooked hundreds of meals for the associations each week and offered their customers take-off or home delivery menus, the first of which worked “very well”.
The reopening promises to be auspicious: reservations are full until August. “We are very lucky to have a regular customer base,” including celebrities like the family of former footballer David Beckham. To suit the health background, the number of covers has been reduced from 54 to 44. For 42 employees, they are screened on Kovid-19 every week.
– Attention potatoes –
The shelves are filled with old cookbooks, liquor and comfortable seating, and the core is intimate and cozy.
Michelin Guide praises “its modern cuisine, which offers exquisite flavors and textures but presents itself in a calm and sensible way.”
For French chef Helena Doros, Claire Smith is “a monster of toughness and precision”. “She has this character in this work, it’s absolutely incredible, and I really appreciate it,” Daros told AFP.
In the kitchen, Claire Smith makes one-and-a-half-year-old products like potatoes or carrots. The main dish is “potato and roe”, with trout roe and herring served with potatoes and white butter.
A recipe that pays homage to the northern Irish roots of the Triple Star: “I grew up eating potatoes every day, near the shore”. So these fragrances are “very nostalgic”.
Everything on the core is “made in the UK”, from new products to utensils and silverware, the team intends to keep international, Claire Smith, despite tightening immigration conditions after the release. Union.
“We need to keep bringing in these workers,” she said, although she feared Brexit would have a significant impact on recruitment.
– Catering with Harry and Megan –
Claire Smith, who decided to pursue a career in the kitchen, left Family Farm in County Antrim, west of Belfast on the 16th, to train in England and pursue her dream.
Louis XVI of Monaco – Alain Ducas, then worked for 13 years at a restaurant called Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea’s Chic London. The ranks went up to lead the famous chef’s three-star restaurant. British.
In May 2018, Prince Harry and Megan Markle chose her to make their wedding dinner: “It was like a fairy tale, we will remember it for a long time”.
She has also appeared on culinary shows in the UK and Australia, including “Master Chef”, “The Final Table” from Netflix (“Everyone at the Table”), and the American version of “Top Chef”.
They plan to open the first restaurant in Australia called Oncore at the Crown Sydney Hotel in July.
Along with Connaught, written by Helen Doros, Core is the only restaurant in the United Kingdom to enter the three-star closed club this year, which is Michelle’s highest difference.
Two women at the top of the podium, a fact “very rare”, but “I think we see more and more women at a higher level,” predicts Claire Smith. “There are very few people in my kitchen and I hope to earn their own Michelin stars in the next five to ten years.”
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