About Tristan

Tristan started his culinary career in London, where he trained as commis chef at City Rhodes restaurant, under Gary Rhodes, until 1998 when Tristan joined Le Gavroche, working under the stern guidance of Michel Roux jr; here he won the Award of Excellence from the Academy of Culinary Arts, which recognizes exceptional talent and ambition in young chefs.

He remained there for almost 3 years,  before Michel Roux arranged for  him to progress his career at the triple Michelin starred L’Arpege in Paris.

Tristan then moved north, in order to take on his first head chef role at the award winning five star Glenapp Castle Relais and Chateaux hotel in Ayrshire, Scotland, where he remained for over two years. During this time, Tristan was awarded many awards; from 3 AA rosettes, to hotel chef of the year and, in 2003, the prestigious Gordon Ramsay Scholarship Award.

After this Tristan moved back to London to take on the role of head chef at Gordon Ramsay’s prestigious Petrus at The Berkeley in 2004. Petrus was awarded 2 Michelin stars in 2007, Best Restaurant Award in the Harden’s Guide 2008, which judged the restaurant on food, service and atmosphere; numerous other awards followed. In March 2008, Tristan re-launched the Kensington restaurant; Launceston Place, where he has created a modern British menu, received with rave reviews by the critics. Since Tristan’s re-launch of Launceston Place, it has won Best Restaurant in the London Time Out guide,  number 3 of most fashionable London restaurants, Best In Taste award, plus wine awards from Tattler and Wine Spectator.

In 2009 Tristan was a finalist in BBC2’s Great British Menu and he appeared again on the show in 2010. He makes regular appearances on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen, BBC1’s  The One Show,  Good Food channel’s Market Kitchen, C4’s Drop Down Menu, and radio BBC London. He also makes regular appearances on Food Network USA and Food Network UK 

Tristan’s recipes are regularly printed in the British press; The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, Delicious magazine, Olive magazine, Sainsbury magazine, Mens health, GQ (herein listed amongst  the UK’s top 100 most influential men).