The 1st Ever Virtual Food Festival [Easter Monday 2020]

Rick is best known for a love of fresh seafood and made his name in the 90’s with his earliest books and television series based on his life as chef and owner of The Seafood Restaurant in the fishing port of Padstow which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2015. The business has now grown to include 14 restaurants, a cookery school, rooms and retail, across Cornwall, in Winchester, Marlborough, Sandbanks and Barnes, London.

Rick’s latest TV series and accompanying book saw him explore from Dieppe in the north down to Cassis, discovering rustic recipes off the beaten track and celebrating the best of Secret France.

Jack’s debut cookbook was released in 2018, celebrating the universal language of food with a collection of recipes heavily inspired by the food, experience and culture encountered on his travels.

The past few years have seen Jack cook his way around Western Australia in two series of Jack Stein Born to Cook and travel around the Durbanville Wine Valley in South Africa, for a series with his brother Charlie. In his latest TV series, Jack took 10 classic British dishes around the world to share their history and see what the locals think of them in Jack Stein: Inside the Box.

After a background in media, Steven’s food career began nearly 20 years ago when he joined hugh fearnley-whittingstall’s river cottage team, regularly appearing in the tv series and being instrumental in establishing the internationally acclaimed cookery school on the devon / dorset border.

It is here that his knowledge of food was fine-tuned and his passion for curing & smoking and other artisan culinary methods was nurtured.

He owns three restaurants in London – José, Pizarro and José Pizarro. In 2019, José is opening The Swan Inn in Esher, a country pub with an à la carte menu, which will feature pub classics alongside regional Spanish dishes.

In 2014 José was voted one of ‘100 españoles’ – a hugely prestigious award, which showcases the top 100 Spaniards around the world, based on how they have brought their talents to the masses and demonstrated their Spanish pride through their work

His mother trained at Cordon Bleu and her enthusiasm for food, particularly fish, was passed on to Rick. With a passion for food ingrained his blood, Rick went on to manage various different sites for Fishworks before realising his and wife Katie’s joint dream of owning their own restaurant. Despite having had no formal food training, founder Rick, along with his wife Katie, discovered their dish inspiration from all avenues, including travelling and visiting other restaurants and spending days working for free at various fishmongers before opening their first Prawn on the Lawn in Islington in 2013.

Katie and Rick have since opened two further restaurants in Padstow, another Prawn on the Lawn in2015, followed by Barnaby’s in 2018. Rick and Katie also launched their debut cookbook, Fish and Seafood To Share.