North West Fine Foods Young Chef of the Year 2006

A BUDDING teenage chef from Stockport has been crowned the North West Fine Foods Young Chef of the Year.

Matthew Worsley, 19, who works as demi chef de partie at the Radisson SAS in Manchester, beat off stiff competition from the other county finalists from Merseyside, Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire, to take home the title.

The competition, which we are proud to sponsor, has become the highest profile contest for young chefs in the region with finalists battling it out each year in front of some of the country’s top chefs. Here is Matthew with fellow contestant Daniel Simpson and chef judge Stephen Docherty.

Matthew impressed the judges with his starter of Pan fried fillet of John Dory, butternut squash and Morecambe shrimp of tian with parsley fumet, a main course of stuffed saddle of rabbit, open Cumbrian ham and onion pie, glazed baby vegetables and a damson jus. He finished the meal with a dessert of Raisin Clafoutis, Cheshire honey roasted plum soup, with cinnamon foam
29/11/2006|