I think that I followed the influences of the people whose style and cooking I admired. When I went to Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in the early days, it was the best and the most exciting cooking in the UK at that time. Later on I worked with Thomas Keller and Alain Ducasse and eventually I chose to go to work in Le Louis XV because when I set foot in the kitchen, I just knew it was for me. I think you can see all of those influences in the techniques and the flavors that I use: there’s a real purity to the way that we cook and a real natural process here at my restaurant, Core, that always stayed with me from my time at Alain Ducasse.
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Clare Smyth
Chef-patron of Core, London; first British woman to hold three Michelin stars
United Kingdom · b. 1978
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Northern Irish chef, chef-patron of Core in London and the first British woman to run a restaurant with three Michelin stars.
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