Sat Bains
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28 February 1971 Derby, Derbyshire |
| Education | Derby College |
| Spouse(s) | Amanda Bains |
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| Cooking style | European cuisine |
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Satwant Singh "Sat" Bains (born 28 February 1971) is a British chef best known for being chef proprietor of the two-Michelin star Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms in Nottingham. He won the Roux Scholarship in 1999, and worked in France, before returning to the UK and opening his own restaurant. Bains was also one of the winners on the BBC show Great British Menu in 2007.
Satwant Bains was born on 28 February 1971 in Derby, Derbyshire. His parents were Sikhs who had only recently migrated to the UK. Throughout his childhood, Bains' father ran a number of shops, resulting in Sat's first job as a paperboy. His mother was a housewife, and cooked mostly vegetarian meals, although would occasionally cook keema on a Saturday. Bains would later recall that he wasn't interested in learning how to cook during his childhood.
At the age of 18, he attended the Wilmorton site of Derby College, reportedly only joining the catering course because it had the most girls on it. He passed the course, earning a City & Guilds qualification. He began to work at a restaurant under Mick Murphy, who he later described as an inspiration due to the passion that Murphy had for food.
He discovered the work of Marco Pierre White, and read the White Heat cookbook. He would later explain that he read the entire book in three and a half hours, describing it as "iconic". This inspired Bains to strive for something better and he sent off CVs to better-quality restaurants than the one he was working in. One of the chefs that sent him a rejection letter was John Burton Race. Raymond Blanc hired Bains as one of eighteen staff members for the opening of the first Le Petit Blanc in Oxford in 1996. Bains later recalled that within six months of opening, there were only ten staff members left. He moved on to work at the London-based L'Escargot for 3 months and then returned to Nottingham.
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