This experience was key in Keri’s development in and she attributes some of her success to this momentous experience.Īfter the show was televised, Keri (with the backing of Smart Hospitality) opened her own restaurant in Selfridges called The Corner Restaurant. On top of this, she had the chance to cook for 30 of the best chefs and Michelin guide inspectors in the world. Thank you.On MasterChef the Professionals, Keri was given the opportunity to work a dinner service in Tom Kerridge’s two Michelin star Hand & Flowers pub, and to work alongside the chefs at Heston Blumenthal’s three Michelin starred The Fat Duck restaurant.
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The Staff Canteen team are taking a different approach to keeping our website independent and delivering content free from commercial influence. I’m excited to be cooking, seeing suppliers I’ve not seen for a few years and we are closed Monday and Tuesday so we can go out and forage a lot of our own ingredients.” He was expected to die on the flight home and hailed as a hero by Prince Harry 2008.Īnton added: “It’s something different for Plymouth, I don’t think anyone else does what we are hoping to do. One of the new restaurant’s partners who will be looking after the front of house is Ben McBean, a former Royal Marine and Afghan Veteran who was only 20 when he was badly injured in a landmine blast while serving in Afghanistan, tragically losing his left and right leg.
I’ve missed that over the years because I actually like being behind the stove cooking.” With MasterChef and the Michelin star you find yourself out of the kitchen rather than in it. “Sometimes when you have big ventures and big things going on you don’t actually do what you are supposed to – which for me was cooking. “It’s about cooking again,” explained Anton. The evening tasting menu with snacks will consist of ‘a taste from the chef’ and ‘a taste from the garden’, so it will change dramatically as the seasons change. “It might be a mistake doing this but if I don’t do it now, in five years I’ll be 40 years old and I want to do something I really believe in."Īnton’s new restaurant Brown and Bean is situated on Ebrington Street and will officially open on Wednesday, March 8 2017. I’d like to thank all the customers who have supported me at The Treby over the years as well. It’s really hard to walk away from all of it but sometimes you have to do what you believe in. He added: “Seven years of working at The Treby has been amazing, I’ve lived my dreams winning MasterChef there and achieving a Michelin star. “I’m getting older and I just wanted to cook something which was new and fresh in a restaurant with less covers.” > Related: MasterChef: The Professionals winners - where are they now? He told The Staff Canteen: “There’s no animosity it’s just come to an end, I’ve done my thing and within a pub I couldn’t express what I wanted to do because sometimes you are bound by the culture of the pub industry. MasterChef: The Professionals 2012 winner Anton Piotrowski has left The Treby Arms in Plympton, Devon to open his first solo venture, Brown and Bean in Plymouth.Īnton who won MasterChef in 2012, and his team at The Treby Arms were awarded a Michelin star in the Michelin Guide UK in 2015 and have continued to retain it but Anton says it’s now time for him to move on.