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Adejoké Bakare
Adejoké "Joké" Bakare is a British Nigerian-born chef specialising in West African cuisine. Largely self taught, in 2024, she became the first Black woman in the United Kingdom to be awarded a Michelin-star. Later that year, she was named Chef of the Year at the National Restaurant Awards. Biography Early life Bakare was born and grew up in Kaduna, Nigeria. Her mother is of Yoruba ancestry and her father is Igbo, which exposed her to a variety of cultural influences growing up. While studying biomedical sciences at Kaduna State University, she supported herself by running a fish-and-chips cart. In 1999, she moved to the United Kingdom to study. While working in various fields including property management, Bakare continued her interest in and love of cooking. A self-taught chef, she operated a street food van outside her church, and later hosted supper clubs, sharing her interest in west African cuisine. In 2019, her friends encouraged her to enter the Brixton Kitchen coo ...
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Michelin Guide
The ''Michelin Guides'' ( ; ) are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900. The ''Guide'' awards up to three Michelin star (classification), stars for excellence to a select few restaurants in certain geographic areas. Michelin also publishes the ''Green Guides'', a series of general guides to cities, regions, and countries. History file:Guidem michelin 1900.jpg, upright=1, The first ''Michelin Guide'', published in 1900 In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars, and accordingly car tyres, the car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard Michelin (born 1859), Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, the ''Guide Michelin'' (Michelin Guide). Nearly 35,000 copies of this first, free edition were distributed. It provided information to motorists such as maps, tyre repair and replacement instructions, car mechanics listings, hotels, and petrol st ...
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Charlotte Ivers
Charlotte Ivers (born 1 March 1995) is a British journalist. She is currently the Food critic, restaurant critic for ''The Sunday Times'' having previously been a political correspondent at Times Radio. Early life Born in 1995, Ivers sees herself as both English people, English and Scottish people, Scottish: She attended Dean Close School, a private boarding school in Gloucestershire. She was head of school and commanded the Royal Air Force Air Cadets, RAF section of the school's Combined Cadet Force. She studied philosophy at Pembroke College, Cambridge. While there, she wrote for ''Varsity (Cambridge), Varsity'' and ''The Tab'', and was elected president of the Cambridge Union. Career Ivers worked as a special adviser (UK), special adviser for Premiership of Theresa May, Theresa May's government. She is currently political correspondent at Times Radio and a columnist for ''The Sunday Times''. Ivers has made television appearances on ''Question Time (TV programme), Question ...
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British Chefs
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Nigerian Chefs
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Head Chefs Of Michelin-starred Restaurants
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List Of Female Chefs With Michelin Stars
Women chefs were among some of the earliest to be awarded Michelin stars. Within the ''Michelin Guide'', stars were first introduced in 1926 with the present three star system added in 1931. When three stars were first awarded in 1933, two female chefs, Eugénie Brazier and Marie Bourgeois, were among them. Several female chefs have been awarded three stars since, including Marguerite Bise, Sophie Bise, Nadia Santini, Elena Arzak, Clare Smyth, Anne-Sophie Pic, Carme Ruscalleda and Ana Roš. In recent years, the number of male chefs awarded stars has greatly outnumbered those given to women. However, there has been an increase in the number of women from different nations awarded, due to the expansion of the areas covered by the guide. The lack of women holding stars has repeatedly led to criticism of the ''Michelin Guide'', who have in turn pointed to the lack of female chefs overall in the industry. History The ''Michelin Guide'' was first published in 1900 in France to pro ...
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Georgiana Viou
Georgiana Viou (born 1977) is a French chef from Benin. Viou specializes in Mediterranean cuisine with an African touch. In 2023, she became the first black female chef in France to be awarded a Michelin star. She is a judge for the French version of MasterChef and a cookbook author. Biography Early life and education Georgiana Viou was born in 1977 in Cotonou, Benin. Growing up in Benin, she learned to cook from her mother. She moved to Paris at age 22 to study languages at the Sorbonne. Her dream was to be a conference translator. With the birth of her first child, she rekindled her fascination with cooking, and soon began to gain experience by working in restaurant kitchens. After graduation, she moved to Marseille, where she worked in a communications agency during the day and in restaurants at night, where she began to develop her cooking skills. Viou is self-taught, and credits her time in Marseille's restaurant kitchens for teaching her everything she knew. Profe ...
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Michelin Star
The ''Michelin Guides'' ( ; ) are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900. The ''Guide'' awards up to three Michelin stars for excellence to a select few restaurants in certain geographic areas. Michelin also publishes the ''Green Guides'', a series of general guides to cities, regions, and countries. History upright=1, The first ''Michelin Guide'', published in 1900 In 1900, there were fewer than 3,000 cars on the roads of France. To increase the demand for cars, and accordingly car tyres, the car tyre manufacturers and brothers Édouard and André Michelin published a guide for French motorists, the ''Guide Michelin'' (Michelin Guide). Nearly 35,000 copies of this first, free edition were distributed. It provided information to motorists such as maps, tyre repair and replacement instructions, car mechanics listings, hotels, and petrol stations throughout France. In 1904, the brothers published a guide for Belgium, and ...
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Chef De Cuisine
A chef de cuisine (, French for ''head of kitchen'') or head chef is a chef that leads a kitchen and its cooks. A chef patron (feminine form ''chef patronne'') (French for ''boss chef'') or executive chef is a chef that manages multiple kitchens and their staff. Function The chef de cuisine is in charge of all activities related to the kitchen, which usually includes creating menus, managing kitchen staff, ordering and purchasing stock and equipment, plating design, enforcing nutrition, safety, and sanitation, and ensuring the quality of the meals that are served in the restaurant. Chef de cuisine is the traditional French term, meaning "chief of the kitchen" or "kitchen manager", from which the English word chef is derived. Head chef is often used to designate someone with the same duties as an executive chef, but in larger restaurants there is usually someone in charge of a head chef such as a general manager who makes executive decisions such as the direction of the m ...
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Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia ( ) is a district of central London, England, near the West End. Its eastern part is in the London Borough of Camden, and the western in the City of Westminster. It has its roots in the Manor of Tottenham Court, and was urbanised in the 18th century. Its name was coined in the late 1930s by Tom Driberg. It is characterised by its mixed-use of residential, business, retail, education and healthcare, with no single activity dominating. The once bohemian area was home to writers such as Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Rimbaud. In 2016, ''The Sunday Times'' named it the best place to live in London. Geography Fitzrovia has never been an administrative unit, so has never had formal boundaries applied, but the local streets' somewhat gridlike pattern has lent itself to informal quadrangular definitions, with Euston Road to the north, Oxford Street to the south and Great Portland Street to the west. Some take Tottenham Court Road as the eastern bo ...
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Chishuru
Chishuru is a Michelin-starred African restaurant in London, United Kingdom. Chishuru initially started as a three-month pop-up restaurant in the London neighbourhood of Brixton, before moving to its permanent location in the Fitzrovia neighbourhood. Reception The restaurant was named '' Time Out London's'' best restaurant of 2022. With Chishuru's Michelin Star award in 2024, owner and Head Chef Adejoké Bakare became the first black woman to be awarded this recognition in the United Kingdom. See also * List of African restaurants * List of Michelin-starred restaurants in Greater London As of the 2025 guide, there are 85 restaurants in Greater London with a Michelin-star rating, a rating system used by the Michelin Guide to grade restaurants based on their quality. 2020–2025 lists 2010–2019 lists 2000–2009 lists ... References African restaurants Michelin-starred restaurants in London {{London-stub ...
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