Natalie Coleman is a British chef and winner of the 2013 series of ''

MasterChef ''MasterChef'' is a competitive cooking show television format created by Franc Roddam, which originated with the UK version in July 1990. The format was revived and updated for the BBC in February 2005 by executive producers Roddam and John ...

''. She is now the head chef of The Garrison in London and won Best Pub Chef at the 2022 Great British Pub Awards.

Early life

Coleman grew up in Hackney, east London, and went to

Chingford Foundation School Chingford Foundation School is a coeducational state secondary school and sixth form located in Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is a specialist Humanities College and has been an academy since October 2012. History Chingfo ...

, the same school that David Beckham, Harry Kane and Dwight Gayle attended. Before appearing on series 9 of the BBC cooking show

she worked as a credit controller and a part-time techno DJ.

Career

Since winning ''MasterChef'', Natalie has worked stages at some of the most well known restaurants in the UK including

Le Gavroche Le Gavroche (''The Urchin'') is a restaurant at 43 Upper Brook Street in Mayfair, London. It was opened in 1967 by Michel and Albert Roux at 61 Lower Sloane Street, its premises until 1981. Albert's son Michel Roux Jr is the current chef patron ...

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Michel Roux Jr Michel Albert Roux (born 23 May 1960) previously known as Michel Roux Jr., is an English-French two Michelin starred chef. He owns the London restaurant ''Le Gavroche.'' Early life Roux was born at Pembury maternity hospital in Kent, whilst his ...

), Viajante ( Nuno Mendes), St Johns (

Fergus Henderson Fergus Henderson (born 31 July 1963) is an English chef who founded the restaurant St John (restaurant), St John on St John Street in London. He is often noted for his use of offal and other neglected cuts of meat as a consequence of his philo ...

The Kitchin The Kitchin is a fine dining restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland, run by Tom Kitchin and his wife Michaela (née Berseilus). It serves fresh Scottish produce in a French style from Kitchin's time spent with Alain Ducasse. It was awarded a Mi ...

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Tom Kitchin Thomas William Kitchin is a Scottish chef and owner of The Kitchin, where he became Scotland's youngest winner of a Michelin star. Kitchin and his wife Michaela opened The Kitchin in 2006 on Leith’s waterfront. The restaurant was awarded a ...

), L’enclume (Simon Rogan), The Berkeley Hotel (

Marcus Wareing Marcus Wareing (born 29 June 1970) is an English celebrity chef who is currently Chef-Owner of the one-Michelin-starred restaurant Marcus (formerly Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley) in Knightsbridge. Since 2014, Wareing has been a judge on '' Maste ...

), Midsummer House ( Daniel Clifford) and

The Hand & Flowers The Hand & Flowers is a gastropub in Marlow, Buckinghamshire that opened in 2005. Owned and operated by Tom Kerridge and his wife Beth Cullen-Kerridge, it gained its first Michelin star within a year of opening and a second in the 2012 list, mak ...

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Tom Kerridge Thomas Kerridge (born 27 July 1973) is an English chef. After initially appearing in several small television parts as a child actor, he decided to attend culinary school at the age of 18. He has since worked at a variety of British restaurants, ...

). In 2014 she published her first cookbook titled ''Winning Recipes: For Every Day''. In May 2019 she was appointed to oversee the menu of a new restaurant ''Hello Darling'' which opened next to the Old Vic Theatre in London. She has been Head Chef at The Oyster Shed in the City of London since November 2021. In 2022 she won Best Pub Chef at the Great British Pub Awards. In 2023 she won her first AA Rossette for the Oyster Shed followed by Young's Best Food Pub of the year 2023.

Publications

* ''Winning Recipes: For Every Day'' (2014) Coleman has also co-authored: * ''MasterChef the Finalists'' cookbook with fellow MasterChef runners-up Dale Williams and Larkin Cen, (2014) * ''MasterChef Ordinary to Extraordinary'' (2018)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Natalie 1983 births British chefs English television chefs Living people People from the London Borough of Hackney Reality cooking competition winners British women chefs