Featured Student Chefs Gallery

ESF Chef of the year – Junior Winners

Alessandro and Yash Year 8 triumphed in the junior section of ESF Chefs’ Competition against all the other ESF secondary schools on Friday 27th May 2016. Working in a pair, their brief was to make street food classics into fine dining dishes – with 2 hours to make and present a main course and dessert. Alessandro took charge of the main course, making Arancini Alla Siciliana, risotto balls stuffed with ham and cheese, served with a traditional tomato sauce. He said: “I chose this because it is traditional Italian street food which I think I can make restaurant level by adding a few small touches and plating it cleanly. Yash made the dessert, Mango Kulfi with Cardamom Biscuit and Falooda, drawing on his Indian heritage. He said: “I chose to make this dessert because it brings together very traditional dishes and flavours. I am really pleased I can represent my school by making this amazing dish.” Potato Galette with Ham, Poached Eggs and Truffle Oil The panel of chef judges all loved their modernised food from their own cultures and were really impressed with the presentation and balance of flavours and textures. Claudia Lau Year 12 represented Island School in the senior section. She impressed ...

‘Tasty’ style Videos

This week Lord’s Kitchen pupils began to publish their Tasty style videos on the lords kitchen youtuble channel. Hitesh Hemnani got the chef of the week for his which was excellently edited https://youtu.be/4zaxhX6y28s Some others were very good too! https://youtu.be/BTArMAUYhuA https://youtu.be/Nt1y00nXKc4  

Lords Kitchen Signature dish (chef of the week Jeremy Kwok)

This week Jeremy won chef of the week for his Rack of Lamb signature dish which was plated to a restaurant standard. the class ere allowed to make any dish they wanted from the menu  they planned a few weeks ago to showcase their skills and presentation techniques they learnt last week

IS Masterchef Final

This year’s Master Chef competition at Island school started in January with the first round of Junior and Senior students competing for their House. Junior contestants worked in pairs while seniors worked independently, with each contestant making a dish that they felt would be suitable to be sold in a coffee shop. The top 5 from each category then went through to the semi-finals. The semi-finals in March saw the juniors creating vegetarian meals (to reduce meat intake). The seniors were asked to design a dish to promote the use of herbs being grown in the school garden. The judges were made up from a range of teachers and students but they all agreed that the semi-final winners were Jenny Wang and Valerie Lee (Rutherford) in the junior section and Ayesha Shahani (Wilberforce) in the senior section. The final took place at the Cultural Spring Fair 15th April 2016 and the top three juniors and seniors were tasked to make two different fusion tapas dishes in an hour and a half. The judges were; Edgar Sanuy, Head Chef from Maximal Concepts, Mr and Mrs Binge, Natalie Chan (ex-student studying culinary arts) Kaela-Mei Townson, who was last year’s winner. Head of Food and Textiles Technology Chris Binge said; “The ...

Lords Kitchen (week 10) – Plating challenge Chef of the week Krishna

In this weeks lesson pupils were given a selection of ingredients along with a piece of salmon and some pea puree and were asked to try and design a  modern style restaurant standard dish. The results were all very impressive and we would like to get you to vote for your favorite to decide on the chef/s of the week.   Please vote for your favoutire two