20 Facts About Jason Atherton

Jason Atherton was born on 6 September 1971 and is an English chef and restaurateur.

Jason Atherton was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred Maze in London until 30 April 2010.

The son of a Skegness hotelier and her joiner husband, Atherton ran away to London at the age of 16 while his parents were on holiday.

Jason Atherton has worked with chefs including Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis, and Marco Pierre White.

Jason Atherton joined the Gordon Ramsay Group in 2001 as the executive chef for Verre in Dubai.

In 2009 Jason Atherton opened Maze in Cape Town at the One and Only Hotel and maze restaurants in Melbourne and Qatar.

Jason Atherton left Gordon Ramsay Holdings in 2010 to launch his own restaurant company, The Social Company.

Jason Atherton launched his first independent restaurant venture, Table No 1, at the Waterhouse at South Bund hotel in Shanghai in May 2010.

In 2014 the restaurant won Food and Travel Magazine Readers Award's "Restaurant of the Year - UK" and Jason Atherton won Restaurateur of the Year at the Catey's.

Between 2011 and 2012, Jason Atherton expanded his Asian ventures with Esquina, a tapas bar in Chinatown, Singapore, The Study, a British style cafe, in Singapore and 22 Ships with Yenn Wong of JIA Group, in Hong Kong.

In 2015, Jason Atherton opened his first stateside restaurant The Clocktower within the New York EDITION hotel at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building.

In June 2016, Jason Atherton opened his first restaurant in Cebu, Philippines - The Pig and Palm is a 70-seater with a chefs table, tapas bar, main dining area and a lounge area, designed by architect Lyndon Neri of Neri and Hu, who designed Jason Atherton's other restaurants Pollen Street Social, Sosharu and Kensington Street Social.

Jason Atherton opened the Temple and Sons restaurant in London in November, 2016.

In 2009 and 2010 Jason Atherton returned to "Great British Menu" as a host.

Jason Atherton has won "Chef Award" at the Catey Awards 2012.

In 2017, in another collaboration with JIA Group, Jason Atherton opened Duddell's London at St Thomas Church in London Bridge.

Jason Atherton has become a regular guest on BBC One's Saturday Kitchen, alongside host James Martin.

Jason Atherton eventually won the starter and main course section in a public vote, in a meal served at The Gherkin, hosted by Heston Blumenthal.

In 2014 Jason Atherton co-hosted the UK series My Kitchen Rules with Lorraine Pascale.

In 2016 Jason Atherton was a guest judge for an episode in series 8 of Masterchef Australia with 3 contestants having to re-create one of Jason Atherton's award-winning dishes in an elimination challenge.