Karl Quirante impressed the judges with a chicken dish in a high-pressure blind cooking challenge
"It must have been alright if it won," says a typically modest Karl Quirante when asked what dish he had created in a high-pressure live-cook off. Karl, 24, had just been named the Young Pub Chef Award at the Great British Pub Awards 2023.
It has resulted in the talented young chef creating a menu packed with ambitious and innovative dishes at the unfussy West Lancashire gastropub its diners consistently find mouth-wateringly good.Karl spoke to LancsLive prior to the blind cooking challenge and final stage of the tough competition and said he was "buzzing" to get stuck in. It was held at the Victoria Warehouse in Manchester ahead of the glittering awards ceremony, hosted by Edith Bowman.
The long-standing industry awards recognise the top pubs in the country, nominated in a wide range of categories including Best Chef, Best Sustainable Pub and Best Pub Garden. Karl has no formal cooking training and has used the past eight years fine-tuning his skills and has risen from the Chef de Partie role to head chef in just a couple of years.
Explaining why he thrives in the environment at The Cricketers, Karl added: "They have let me do whatever I want and and I'm so grateful. I understand the demographic here and what the customers want, but I want to put something different, more modern cooking out there.
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