Mike Reid (Chef)

Chef

Birthday August 15, 1982

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace England

Age 43 years old

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About

British chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and television personality known for being the Culinary Director of Rare Restaurants, the hospitality group behind Gaucho and M Restaurants, and for his appearances on food television including having served as a judge on Five Star Kitchen: Britain's Next Great Chef and for appearing on programs such as Ready Steady Cook, My Market Kitchen, Good Chef Bad Chef, Saturday Kitchen, and Sunday Brunch.

Before fame

He developed an interest in cooking at a young age. He studied at the University of Portsmouth before moving to London to pursue a professional culinary career. He trained in some of the most prestigious kitchens in the UK early in his career including Le Gavroche and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. His career expanded internationally in 2013 when he moved to Melbourne, Australia, and worked in acclaimed restaurants such as Attica and Cutler & Co. He returned to the UK in 2014 and became a founding force behind M Restaurant and opened the first location in London in 2014vfollowed by expansions in 2015 and 2017. He began appearing on UK television in 2016 as a guest chef on shows like Sunday Brunch and competing on Great British Menu.

Trivia

He is the author of the cookbook M: A 24 Hour Cookbook which was published in 2016. 

Family life

He is from England. He married the mother of his two children in 2014.

Associated with

He has appeared on Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield.