Mark Greenaway

Mark Greenaway is an Edinburgh-based chef and restaurateur. He is chef and owner of Restaurant Mark Greenaway, voted one of the UKs Top 100 Restaurants in 2017, and holds 3 AA Rosettes. Greenaway represented Scotland on BBC2's Great British Menu in 2012 and 2013.

Career

Greenaway opened his restaurant on Picardy Place, Edinburgh, in 2011. It later moved to North Castle Street in 2013. It was the only Scottish restaurant awarded 3 AA Rosettes[1] and was added to the Restaurant Magazine UK Top 100 Restaurants in 2014.[2] The restaurant has retained its 3 AA Rosettes every year since.

In April 2012 Greenaway represented Scotland on the BBC’s cookery program Great British Menu, and again in 2013 for the series Great British Menu Does Comic Relief. Later in 2013, Greenaway took part in a BBC2 documentary series called Teen Canteen,[3] in which students from Linlithgow Academy in Scotland set out to start up a healthy take-away business. He has also made appearances on Saturday Kitchen on BBC1, Newsnight on BBC2 and Sunday Brunch on Channel 4. In 2014/15, Greenaway was a columnist for the Edinburgh Evening News[4] with his weekly recipe printed every Friday.

Greenaway is known for his desserts.[5][6][7] He worked in Australia for five years, then at One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow, at Kilcamb Lodge Hotel in Strontian and at the Dryburgh Abbey Hotel in the Scottish Borders.[8] He has also presented classes at Braehead Cooking School and the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School, and gives cooking demonstrations at many food festivals such as Foodies, Gardening Scotland, Taste, BBC Good Food Show and The Scottish Chefs Conference.

2016 saw the launch of Greenaway's first cookbook, Perceptions – Recipes from Restaurant Mark Greenaway, which won Best Cookbook in the World in the Chef Category 2017 from the Gourmand World Book Awards.[9]

Awards

  • Scottish Hotel Awards 2011 – Rising Star Chef of the Year 2011
  • Scottish Style Awards 2011 – Scotland’s Most Stylish Restaurant
  • The AA Awards January – 3 AA Rosettes for Outstanding Cuisine 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Restaurant Magazine – Top 100 UK Restaurants 2014
  • Square Meal – Top 100 UK Restaurants 2014–2017
  • Observer Food Monthly – Runner-up best restaurant in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Scottish Food Awards 2017[10] – Best Contemporary Dining Destination
  • The Best Chef Awards 2017[11] – Ranked #160 in the Top 300 Chefs in the World

References

  1. ↑ "The AA Awards Seven Restaurants with Three Rosettes", Big Hospitality, London, 17 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "UK Top 100 Restaurants – The Results" Archived 2014-07-24 at the Wayback Machine., Restaurant Magazine, London, 30 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "BBC2 – Teen Canteen"
  4. ↑ "Mark Greenaway Launches Weekly Column", Edinburgh Evening News,
  5. ↑ "A Visit to Mark Greenaway is an Invitation to Indulge in Dessert ", Eat, Drink, Discover Scotland
  6. ↑ "Dessert is the Star", The Herald, Edinburgh, 17 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "Spotlight On: Mark Greenaway", Informed Edinburgh
  8. ↑ "Dryburgh Abbey Hotel Awarded 2 AA Rosettes", Taste of Scotland
  9. ↑ "Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017 – Cookbooks". www.cookbookfair.com. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  10. ↑ "The Scottish Food Awards 2017 Events". scottishfoodawards.com. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
  11. ↑ "thebestchefawards". thebestchefawards (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-01-26.
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