Chef Richard Bertinet was originally from Brittany, France. He now runs his Bertinet Kitchen Cookery School in Bath with Wife Jo
Originally from Brittany in north-west France, Richard Bertinet trained as a baker from the age of 14. He moved to the UK in the late 1980s working at the Chewton Glen Hotel, in Hampshire and as head chef at both the Rhinefield House Hotel in the New Forest and the Silver Plough at Pitton in Salisbury. It was at the Silver Plough that in 1990 he was awarded the Egon Ronay, Pub of the Year and American Express Magazine, UK Pub of the Year. In 1996, he moved to the capital due to a position as Operations Director with the Novelli Group of restaurants. Then in 2000, Richard set up his own consultancy business call The Dough Co.
In 2004, with a young family, Richard and his wife Jo decided that it was time to leave London and head west to be closer to Jo’s family. They opened The Bertinet Kitchen in Bath. The school offers a range of relaxed and fun courses for food lovers of all abilities, and specialist baking and bread-making courses for amateurs and professionals. The school won the South West Tourism Award for Best Tourism Experience in 2009 and has been featured in the US television series on PBS: Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth – A Tour of Cookery Schools Around the World.
Richard has published many baking and pastry books and was named the BBC Food Champion of the Year 2010 at the BBC Food & Farming Awards. He makes regular television appearances on Saturday Kitchen and James Martin’s Saturday Morning.
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Website : The Bertinet Kitchen
