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'''Clare Smyth''' ] (born 1978) is an ] ] who is currently Chef Patron at ]. She became the first female ] chef to hold and retain three ]s. Before returning to London in 2007 as Head Chef for ] Clare worked at ] by Alain Ducasse in Monaco.
'''Clare Smyth''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MBE}} (born 28 November 1978) is a Northern Irish ]. She is the ] of three Michelin starred Core by Clare Smyth which opened in 2017. Previously she was Chef Patron at ] from 2012 to 2016, won the Chef of the Year award in 2013,<ref name="thegoodfoodguide.co.uk">{{cite news|title=Good Food Guide's National Chef of the Year, 2013|url=http://www.thegoodfoodguide.co.uk/awards/clare-smyth-wins-editors-award-for-chef-of-the-year.html|work=The Good Food Guide|accessdate=12 February 2019|publisher=Waitrose}}</ref> and achieved a perfect score in the 2015 edition of the Good Food Guide.<ref name=perfecttenscore>{{cite news|last=Gerrard|first=Neil|title=Clare Smyth scores 10/10 in Good Food Guide at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay|url=https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/353345/clare-smyth-scores-10-10-in-good-food-guide-at-restaurant-gordon-ramsay|accessdate=10 July 2015|work=The Caterer|date=26 August 2014|publisher=Travel Weekly Group}}</ref> Smyth has also appeared on television shows such as '']''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://10play.com.au/masterchef/articles/is-clare-smyth-the-toughest-chef-ever/tpa190615hdlfq|title=Is Clare Smyth The Toughest Chef Ever?|date=2017-07-11|website=10 play|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref> and '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/b00z7jzl|title=Saturday Kitchen: 26/02/2011|website=BBC Food|language=en|access-date=2019-06-28}}</ref>

In 2017, Smyth opened her first restaurant, Core, in London. It was awarded three ] in the 2021 Michelin Guide,<ref name="Via Michelin">{{cite web|url=https://www.viamichelin.co.uk/web/Restaurant/North_Kensington-W11_2PN-CORE_by_Clare_Smyth-14ovrruv6|title=Core by Clare Smyth - London: a Michelin Guide restaurant|work=Via Michelin|accessdate=12 February 2019}}</ref><ref name="Vox Media">{{cite web|url=https://www.eater.com/2017/8/2/16080140/core-by-clare-smyth-london-open-menu-photos|title=Why you will be hearing a lot about this new London Restaurant|work=Eater.com|date=2 August 2017|accessdate=3 May 2018|publisher=Vox Media}}</ref> which made her the first Northern Irish<ref>{{Cite news|last=Saner|first=Emine|title=Clare Smyth: The Irish chef with three Michelin stars – and the poshest potato ever|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/clare-smyth-the-irish-chef-with-three-michelin-stars-and-the-poshest-potato-ever-1.4475070|access-date=2021-02-13|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> woman to have a restaurant awarded three Michelin stars.<ref name="theguardian.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jan/29/clare-smyth-uks-first-female-three-star-michelin-winner-its-been-unbelievably-stressful|title = Clare Smyth, UK's first female three-star Michelin winner: It's been unbelievably stressful|website = ]|date = 29 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="inews.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/good-news-this-week-michelin-star-first-female-mosul-library-sea-shanty-latest-848839|title = Good news stories you might have missed this week|date = 29 January 2021}}</ref> Her second restaurant, Oncore, opened in Sydney in 2021. With Oncore gaining Three Hats honour in 2022, Smyth became the first ever female chef and second overall to gain three Michelin Stars and become a Three-Hatted Chef. The news was also mentioned when she was a guest judge in ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clare Smyth's Career Timeline |url=https://www.claresmyth.com/timeline |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=ClareSmyth.com |language=en}}</ref>


==Early life== ==Early life==
Smyth grew up on a farm in . She was the youngest of three children to her father William, a farmer, and mother Doreen, who worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.<ref name=picasso>{{cite news|last=Day|first=Elizabeth|title='She dresses food like Picasso'|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/dec/16/foodanddrink.features10|accessdate=29 January 2012|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 December 2007}}</ref>


At the age of fifteen, Smyth held a job over a holiday period at a local restaurant, inspiring her to become a chef. Clare left school at sixteen to study catering at ] in ], ].<ref name=picasso/><ref name=womechefs>{{cite news|title=Women chefs: Claire Smyth, Skye Gyngell, Thomasina Miers, Maria Elia, Emily Watkins|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/6327701/Women-chefs-Claire-Smyth-Skye-Gyngell-Thomasina-Miers-Maria-Elia-Emily-Watkins.html|accessdate=29 January 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=18 October 2009}}</ref> Smyth grew up on a farm in ]. She is the youngest of three children, of her father William, a farmer, and mother Doreen, who worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.<ref name=picasso>{{cite news|last=Day|first=Elizabeth|title=She dresses food like Picasso|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/dec/16/foodanddrink.features10|accessdate=29 January 2012|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 2007}}</ref>


At the age of fifteen, Smyth held a job over a holiday period at a local restaurant, inspiring her to become a chef. She left school at sixteen to study catering at ] in ], Hampshire.<ref name=picasso/><ref name=womechefs>{{cite news|title=Women chefs: Clare Smyth, Skye Gyngell, Thomasina Miers, Maria Elia, Emily Watkins|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/6327701/Women-chefs-Claire-Smyth-Skye-Gyngell-Thomasina-Miers-Maria-Elia-Emily-Watkins.html|accessdate=29 January 2012|work=The Telegraph|date=18 October 2009}}</ref>
==Career==
⚫ While at culinary college,<ref name=picasso/> she served an apprenticeship at ], ],<ref name=eatswords/>. She left that post to work full-time at ]'s restaurant at ], London. She followed this with a six-month period in Australia to work for a catering company,<ref name=picasso/> and on her return to the UK she worked at a variety of restaurants including ] and ].<ref name=womechefs/> She worked at the restaurant of the St Enodoc Hotel in ], first as sous chef and then afterwards as head chef.<ref name=picasso/> While there she won the title of Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars/>


==Culinary career==
In 2002 ] offered her a post at ].<ref name=womechefs/> She later said of her first Ramsay job, "When I started in this kitchen six years ago, everyone, including Gordon, said I wouldn't last a week. It was full of testosterone and lots of the guys said I didn't belong here. Even though they were often in tears from stress, cutting their fingers or burning themselves, I had to cover anything like that up as it would have been seen as a sign of weakness because I was a woman."<ref name=eatswords/> She had a disagreement with head chef ] and threatened to quit when he was contemplating promoting a less experienced chef over her to the sauces section.<ref name=eatswords />


⚫ While at culinary college,<ref name=picasso/> Smyth served an apprenticeship at Grayshott Hall, Surrey.<ref name=eatswords/> She left that post to work full-time at ]'s restaurant at ], London. She followed this with a six-month period in Australia working for a catering company,<ref name=picasso/> and on her return to the UK she staged at a variety of restaurants including ] and ].<ref name=womechefs/> She worked at ] in ], Cornwall, first as ] and then as head chef.<ref name=picasso/> While there, she won the title of Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars/>
⚫ Ramsay sent her to work at ] in California to gain experience. In 2007 she was announced as the new head chef of the restaurant, becoming the first female chef in the United Kingdom to run a restaurant with three ]s.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars>{{cite news|last=Gardham|first=Duncan|coauthor=Peterkin, Tom|title=Revealed: First three Michelin star female chef|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/1570604/Revealed-First-three-Michelin-star-female-chef.html|accessdate=29 January 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=27 November 2007}}</ref> Of 121 Michelin starred restaurants worldwide, at the time of her appointment only seven had female head chefs.<ref name=eatswords>{{cite news|title=Gordon Ramsay eats his own words|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576029/Gordon-Ramsay-eats-his-own-words.html|accessdate=29 January 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=20 January 2008}}</ref> She had previously taken a break from Ramsay's restaurant to work as a private chef and for a year and a half in ]'s ] in ], before returning once more to the UK to run the Chelsea based restaurant.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars/> She took over from Zanoni, who was heading to ] to open a new Gordon Ramsay restaurant.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars/>


In 2002, ] offered Smyth a post at ].<ref name=womechefs/>
⚫ Smyth was appointed ] (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to the hospitality industry.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=60534|supp=yes|startpage=23|endpage=|date=15 June 2013}}</ref><ref name=claresmythmbe>{{citenews|title=Top chef Smyth 'honoured' by MBE|url=thttp://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/top-chef-smyth-honoured-by-mbe-29346025.html}}</ref>
⚫ In 2007, she was announced as the new head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay,<ref name="Aitkenhead">{{Cite news|last=Aitkenhead|first=Decca|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/03/clare-smyth-worlds-best-female-chef-im-not-going-to-stand-and-shout-at-someone-its-just-not-nice|title=Clare Smyth, world's best female chef: 'I'm not going to stand and shout at someone. It's just not nice'|date=2018-08-03|work=The Guardian|access-date=2020-04-21|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> becoming the first female chef in the United Kingdom to run a restaurant with three ]s.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars>{{cite news|last=Gardham|first=Duncan|author2=Peterkin, Tom|title=Revealed: First three Michelin star female chef|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/1570604/Revealed-First-three-Michelin-star-female-chef.html|accessdate=29 January 2012|work=The Telegraph|date=27 November 2007}}</ref> Of the 121 British Michelin-starred restaurants at the time of her appointment, only seven had female head chefs.<ref name=eatswords>{{cite news|title=Gordon Ramsay eats his own words|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1576029/Gordon-Ramsay-eats-his-own-words.html|accessdate=29 January 2012|work=The Telegraph|date=20 January 2008}}</ref> She had left Ramsay's restaurant to work for a year and a half in ]'s ] in Monaco, before returning once more to the UK to run the Chelsea-based restaurant.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars/> She took over from ], who was heading to ] to open a new Gordon Ramsay restaurant.<ref name=firstfemalemichelinstars/>


⚫ In 2013, Smyth was named the Good Food Guide's 'National Chef of the Year'.<ref name="thegoodfoodguide.co.uk"/> Smyth was appointed ] (MBE) in the ] for services to the hospitality industry.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60534|supp=y|page=23|date=15 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="claresmythmbe">{{cite news|title=Top chef Smyth 'honoured' by MBE|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/top-chef-smyth-honoured-by-mbe-29346025.html|work=Belfast Telegraph|date=14 June 2013}}</ref>
==Charity Work==

Since taking over as Head Chef at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Clare has worked with the following charities:{{fact}}
Smyth was awarded a perfect ten score by the Good Food Guide of the UK's 2015.<ref name="perfecttenscore"/>
Annual dinner at the Royal Hospital to raise funds for HemiHelp – a charity set up to help children living with Hemiplegia.

* Action Against Hunger
She won the Chef Award at the 2016 ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecaterer.com/news/foodservice/cateys-2016-winners-revealed|title=Cateys 2016 winners revealed|date=2016-07-06|website=The Caterer|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref> previously won by her mentor ] in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cateys.com/cateyawards2020/en/page/home|title=Catey Awards 2020 - Home Page|last=Group|first=Travel Weekly|website=cateys.com|language=en|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>
* Scottish Spina Bifida

*Bobbi Bear Foundation South Africa (Johannesburg)
=== 2016–2021: Core and Oncore ===
* Who’s Cooking Dinner?

Smyth left Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2016 to open her first solo restaurant, Core.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eater.com/2015/10/2/9443317/clare-smyth-leaving-restaurant-gordon-ramsay|title=Chef Clare Smyth is leaving Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to open her own place|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=3 May 2018|date=2 October 2015|work=Eater.com}}</ref> Core opened in London's ] neighbourhood in July 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opentable.com/r/core-by-clare-smyth-london|title=Core by Clare Smyth - London|work=OpenTable.com|accessdate=3 May 2018}}</ref> In April 2018, Core was named Best Restaurant at the GQ Food and Drink Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/gq-food-and-drink-awards-2018-winners|title=The winners of the GQ Food and Drink Awards 2018|website=British GQ|date=23 April 2018|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-04-21}}</ref>

Smyth was named the World's Best Female Chef 2018 by the World's 50 Best Restaurants.<ref name="Aitkenhead"/> In 2018, Smyth appeared as a judge in the "UK" episode of '']'', season 1.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

On 1 October 2018, Core was awarded two Michelin stars in the 2019 Michelin Guide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://guide.michelin.com/at/news-and-views/michelin-guide-great-britain-ireland-2019-results/news|title=Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2019 Selection|work= Michelin Guide|accessdate=12 February 2019}}</ref> Core was awarded three Michelin stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide,<ref name="Via Michelin" /><ref name="Vox Media" /> which made her the first British woman to have a restaurant awarded three Michelin stars.<ref name="theguardian.com" /><ref name="inews.co.uk" />

In early 2021, it was reported that Smyth would open a restaurant in Sydney, Australia.<ref name="Butter">{{Cite web|last=Butter|first=Susannah|date=2021-01-28|title=Clare Smyth: 'Restaurants are struggling to survive now'|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/clare-smyth-restaurants-survival-b901306.html|access-date=2021-11-13|website=www.standard.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> Oncore, on the 26th floor of the ] in ] opened in November 2021 with head chef Alan Stuart.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/eating-out/barangaroos-jewel-oncore-by-clare-smyth-to-finally-open-20211029-h1zgxx.html|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|title=Barangaroo's jewel Oncore by Clare Smyth to finally open|first=David|last=Matthews|date=2 November 2021|access-date=27 June 2023}}</ref>

A review in ''Bloomberg'' described Oncore as "Sydney's best restaurant". Due to ongoing border restrictions to prevent the transmission of ], Smyth was not able to be at the opening.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vercoe|first=Peter|title=At Sydney's Best New Restaurant, Reservations Are Gone in Minutes|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-16/oncore-by-clare-smyth-review-sydney-s-best-new-restaurant|url-status=live|website=Bloomberg|date=16 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211218014320/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-16/oncore-by-clare-smyth-review-sydney-s-best-new-restaurant |archive-date=18 December 2021 }}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Smyth lives in Wandsworth with her husband, Grant, who works in finance.<ref name="Butter"/>


==References== ==References==

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Latest revision as of 00:42, 16 December 2024

Northern Irish chef

Clare Smyth, MBE
2018
Born (1978-11-28) 28 November 1978 (age 46)
County Antrim, Northern Ireland
EducationDunluce School Bushmills
SpouseGrant
Culinary career
Cooking styleModern British
Rating(s)
Current restaurant(s)
  • Core by Clare Smyth 3 Michelin stars
    Oncore
Previous restaurant(s)
Television show(s)
Award(s) won
    • Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year
    • Retained 3 Michelin stars
    • 10/10 Good Food Guide 2015
    • Chef of The Year Good Food Guide 2013
    • 5 AA rosettes
    • Best female chef in Great Britain and Ireland
    • Core by Clare Smyth named Best Restaurant at the 2018 GQ Food and Drink Awards
    • World's Best Female Chef 2018 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants


Clare Smyth MBE (born 28 November 1978) is a Northern Irish chef. She is the Chef Patron of three Michelin starred Core by Clare Smyth which opened in 2017. Previously she was Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay from 2012 to 2016, won the Chef of the Year award in 2013, and achieved a perfect score in the 2015 edition of the Good Food Guide. Smyth has also appeared on television shows such as Masterchef and Saturday Kitchen.

In 2017, Smyth opened her first restaurant, Core, in London. It was awarded three Michelin stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide, which made her the first Northern Irish woman to have a restaurant awarded three Michelin stars. Her second restaurant, Oncore, opened in Sydney in 2021. With Oncore gaining Three Hats honour in 2022, Smyth became the first ever female chef and second overall to gain three Michelin Stars and become a Three-Hatted Chef. The news was also mentioned when she was a guest judge in Season 15 of MasterChef Australia.

Early life

Smyth grew up on a farm in County Antrim. She is the youngest of three children, of her father William, a farmer, and mother Doreen, who worked as a waitress at a local restaurant.

At the age of fifteen, Smyth held a job over a holiday period at a local restaurant, inspiring her to become a chef. She left school at sixteen to study catering at Highbury College in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Culinary career

While at culinary college, Smyth served an apprenticeship at Grayshott Hall, Surrey. She left that post to work full-time at Terence Conran's restaurant at Michelin House, London. She 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. She worked at the restaurant of the St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, Cornwall, first as sous chef and then as head chef. While there, she won the title of Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year.

In 2002, Gordon Ramsay offered Smyth a post at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. In 2007, she was announced as the new head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, becoming the first female chef in the United Kingdom to run a restaurant with three Michelin stars. Of the 121 British Michelin-starred restaurants at the time of her appointment, only seven had female head chefs. She 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. She took over from Simone Zanoni, who was heading to Versailles to open a new Gordon Ramsay restaurant.

In 2013, Smyth was named the Good Food Guide's 'National Chef of the Year'. Smyth was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to the hospitality industry.

Smyth was awarded a perfect ten score by the Good Food Guide of the UK's 2015.

She won the Chef Award at the 2016 The Catey Awards, previously won by her mentor Gordon Ramsay in 2000.

2016–2021: Core and Oncore

Smyth left Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2016 to open her first solo restaurant, Core. Core opened in London's Notting Hill neighbourhood in July 2017. In April 2018, Core was named Best Restaurant at the GQ Food and Drink Awards.

Smyth was named the World's Best Female Chef 2018 by the World's 50 Best Restaurants. In 2018, Smyth appeared as a judge in the "UK" episode of The Final Table, season 1.

On 1 October 2018, Core was awarded two Michelin stars in the 2019 Michelin Guide. Core was awarded three Michelin stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide, which made her the first British woman to have a restaurant awarded three Michelin stars.

In early 2021, it was reported that Smyth would open a restaurant in Sydney, Australia. Oncore, on the 26th floor of the Crown Sydney in Barangaroo opened in November 2021 with head chef Alan Stuart.

A review in Bloomberg described Oncore as "Sydney's best restaurant". Due to ongoing border restrictions to prevent the transmission of Covid-19, Smyth was not able to be at the opening.

Personal life

Smyth lives in Wandsworth with her husband, Grant, who works in finance.

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