21 Facts About Sat Bains

Sat Bains won the Roux Scholarship in 1999, and worked in France, before returning to the UK and opening his own restaurant.

Satwant Bains was born on 28 February 1971 in Derby, England.

Sat Bains's parents were Sikhs who had only recently migrated to the UK from India.

Sat Bains's mother was a housewife, and cooked mostly vegetarian meals, although would occasionally cook keema on a Saturday.

Sat Bains began to work at a restaurant under Mick Murphy, who he later described as an inspiration due to the passion that Murphy had for food.

Sat Bains discovered the work of Marco Pierre White, and read the White Heat cookbook.

Sat Bains later recalled that within six months of opening, there were only ten staff members left.

Sat Bains moved on to work at the London-based L'Escargot for 3 months and then returned to Nottingham.

Sat Bains won the competition, enabling him to travel to France to work at the three Michelin starred Le Jardin des Sens.

Sat Bains worked alongside another chef in training, Rene Redzepi.

Sat Bains became head chef at the Hotel des Clos in Nottingham, which was relaunched as Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms in November 2002.

Sat Bains sent one of his sous chefs to Denmark to help his former colleague Redzepi open his restaurant Noma during the same year.

Restaurant Sat Bains was awarded a Michelin star in 2003 becoming the first restaurant in Nottingham to win a star.

Sat Bains was crowned with the coveted Chef Award at the 2015 The Catey Awards.

Sat Bains won the Midlands and the East heat beating the previous year's winner, Galton Blackiston from Norfolk.

Sat Bains credited his appearance on the show for an upturn in sales and a solid booking of the restaurant for the following ten months.

Sat Bains has made appearances on the BBC's Saturday Kitchen and UKTV's Market Kitchen.

In 2015, Sat Bains was a guest judge on MasterChef Australia during Season 7, week 2, where Sat Bains asked the contestants to recreate his beef and mushrooms recipe in two and half an hours.

Sat Bains has a collection of between 700 and 800 cookbooks, and published his first in September 2012 entitled "Too Many Chiefs Only One Indian".

Sat Bains has stated that his favourite restaurant is Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck, or El Bulli in Spain.

Sat Bains is married to his wife Amanda; they met whilst they were both teenagers.