West Country-born Chef Dan Moon is head chef at the Gainsborough Bath Spa restaurant. Originally from Exmouth, Devon, he has previously worked at a number of top restaurants where he has achieved numerous awards and accolades, including three AA Rosettes and The Caterer’s Acorn Award.
Dan has worked in a kitchen since the age of 14, peeling vegetables. He was influenced to work in restaurants by watching Gary Rhodes cookery programs on television, and says that Mr Rhodes remains one of his idols.
Taking inspiration from the desire to constantly innovate, Dan uses the best locally sourced produce to create stunning dishes which are delicate, beautifully presented and wonderfully flavoured.
Dan has a highly impressive culinary CV. He became head chef of Hunstrete House, near Bath in 2002, and then Homewood Park Hotel (then a Von Essen Hotel) in 2006. In 2008, he beat 28 other group chefs to become the first ever ‘Von Essen Chef of the Year’, a title he kept for two years, along with the Bath Life Award for Restaurant of the Year in 2009. His proudest accolade was his 3rd AA Rosette that he won in 2010 at Homewood Park Hotel. From 2012 to 2015, Dan was head chef at luxurious Ston Easton Park Hotel in Bath.
At The Gainsborough, Chef Moon pushes culinary boundaries and enjoys surprising hotel guests and local diners with his unlikely culinary combinations, putting the restaurant on the map as one of Britain’s future iconic restaurants.
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