Bryn Williams was born on 6 June 1977 and is a chef originally from Denbigh, Wales.
25 Facts About Bryn Williams
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Bryn Williams is the head chef and sole proprietor of Odette's Restaurant, Primrose Hill, London.
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Bryn Williams shot to fame as merely a sous chef in 2006 by beating established and well-known chefs to cook the fish course for the Queen's 80th birthday celebrations on the television programme Great British Menu.
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Bryn Williams is widely regarded as one of Wales' best chefs and one of Britain's new crop of "celebrity" chefs.
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Bryn Dwyfor Williams was born and raised into a farming family near Denbigh, Wales, with his brothers Gareth and Sion.
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Bryn Williams received all his education through the medium of Welsh before moving to further education.
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Bryn Williams attended Ysgol Gynradd Twm o'r Nant, Denbigh and Ysgol Uwchradd Glan Clwyd, St Asaph.
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Bryn Williams lived in Denbigh until he was 18, then moved to London.
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Bryn Williams later worked at the same bakery as a teenager on Saturday mornings.
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Bryn Williams developed a respect for food whilst growing vegetables, fishing and shooting for game on his uncle's farm as a youngster.
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In 2009, Bryn Williams was appointed Skills Ambassador for the college.
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Bryn Williams was taken on by Marco Pierre White at the Criterion.
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Back in Britain, Bryn Williams moved to the Michelin-starred Orrery Restaurant on Marylebone High Street in London, working there for four years under the tutelage of head chef Andre Garrett.
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Bryn Williams bought out the owner and became sole chef-proprietor of Odette's on 1 October 2008.
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Bryn Williams is the Chef Patron at 'The Cambrian Adelboden' in the Swiss Alps.
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Bryn Williams was honoured by the Gorsedd of the Bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales 2013 festival in his home town of Denbigh, by being chosen a new member of the Eisteddford Druidic Order.
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Bryn Williams interviewed his grandmother about dishes she used to eat as a child before settling on a menu.
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Bryn Williams beat Angela Hartnett in the regional round, and went on to win the public's vote to cook his fish course of 'Turbot with Oxtail' at Queen Elizabeth's 80th-birthday banquet at Mansion House.
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Bryn Williams retained his crown when he beat Matt Tebbutt in 2007.
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Bryn Williams has since become a familiar face on Saturday Kitchen, making appearances on Something for the Weekend and Market Kitchen.
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The second series of Cegin Bryn Williams quickly followed in January 2013.
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Bryn Williams cooked live every day in the GMTV kitchen with Myleene Klass during the last week of its 17 years as a breakfast television broadcaster on ITV.
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Bryn Williams was impressed enough by 23-year-old student Tom Watts Jones and his complex dish of self-caught Welsh rabbit that he offered him a permanent job as a commis chef.
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Bryn Williams is a Patron of Gwledd Conwy Feast, which is Wales' second-largest food festival with around 25,000 visitors each year.
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Bryn Williams married Sharleen Spiteri, the frontwoman of Scottish band Texas, in September 2018 at the 15th-century church of St Tyrnog in Llandyrnog, North Wales.