The Grovefield Hotel

Appears in
Sepia: The Cuisine of Martin Benn

By Martin Benn

Published 2014

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Later that year I was off to Maidenhead for a couple of weeks. My parents drove me to Steve’s home where I stayed for the duration. I remember walking into the kitchen on the first day and just looking around in awe at what was my first real commercial-size kitchen. The brigade consisted of about six chefs, all busy preparing food for service.

It was hot, sweaty and loud with the chefs shouting from one side of the kitchen to the other—‘Hey Lardo, get your fat arse over here. Gotta get this stock off now before we hit lunch.’