1. Clare Smyth was born on 06 September 1978 and is a Northern Irish chef.
18 Facts About Clare Smyth
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Clare Smyth is the Chef Patron of three Michelin starred Core by Clare Smyth which opened in 2017.
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In 2017, Clare Smyth opened her first restaurant, Core, in London.
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Clare Smyth is the youngest of three children of her father William, a farmer, and mother Doreen, who worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.
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At the age of fifteen, Clare Smyth held a job over a holiday period at a local restaurant, inspiring her to become a chef.
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Clare Smyth left school at sixteen to study catering at Highbury College in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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Clare Smyth left that post to work full-time at Terence Conran's restaurant at Michelin House, London.
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Clare Smyth followed this with a six-month period in Australia working 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.
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Clare Smyth worked at the restaurant of the St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, Cornwall, first as sous chef and then as head chef.
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Clare Smyth had left Ramsay's restaurant to work for a year and a half in Alain Ducasse's Le Louis XV restaurant in Monaco, before returning once more to the UK to run the Chelsea-based restaurant.
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Clare Smyth took over from Simone Zanoni, who was heading to Versailles to open a new Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
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In 2013, Clare Smyth was named the Good Food Guide's 'National Chef of the Year'.
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Clare Smyth was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to the hospitality industry.
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Clare Smyth was awarded a perfect ten score by the Good Food Guide of the UK's 2015.
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Clare Smyth won the Chef Award at the 2016 The Catey Awards, previously won by her mentor Gordon Ramsay in 2000.
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Clare Smyth left Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2016 to open her first solo restaurant, Core.
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Clare Smyth was named the World's Best Female Chef 2018 by the World's 50 Best Restaurants.
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In 2018, Clare Smyth appeared as a judge in the "UK" episode of The Final Table, season 1.