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Clare Smyth

Clare Smyth
Born 1978
County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Education Dunluce School Bushmills
Culinary career



Clare Smyth MBE (born 1978) is a Northern Irish chef who was Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay from 2012–16. She became the first female British chef to hold and retain three Michelin stars. Before returning to London in 2007 as Head Chef for Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Clare worked at Le Louis XV by Alain Ducasse in Monaco. Along with winning Chef of the Year 2013, She also achieved the perfect score 10/10 in the 2015 edition of the Good Food Guide. She regularly appears on TV shows such as Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen.

Smyth grew up on a farm in County Antrim. She was the youngest of three children to her father William, a farmer, and mother Doreen, who worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.

At the age of fifteen, Smyth held a job over a holiday period at a local restaurant, inspiring her to become a chef. Clare left school at sixteen to study catering at Highbury College in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

While at culinary college, she served an apprenticeship at Grayshott Hall, Surrey. She left that post to work full-time at Terrance Conran's restaurant at Michelin House, London. She followed this with a six-month period in Australia to work for a catering company, and on her return to the UK she staged at a variety of restaurants including The Waterside Inn and Gidleigh Park. She worked at the restaurant of the St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, Cornwall, first as sous chef and then afterwards as head chef. While there, she won the title of Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year.

In 2002 Gordon Ramsay offered her a post at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay.


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