MasterChef

A Hot Dinners exclusive

If you're already wondering how to fill your days once Celebrity Traitors has finished, then we bring you good news. Because this November, MasterChef: The Professionals is back for Series 19 and the dream team of Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti are at the helm, kicking off seven weeks of the show.

For committed food obsessives, the show is a great showcase of some of the UK's most promising talent, from kitchens across the country. Last season saw self-taught chef Gareth Baty win the show (he now pops up across the UK as The Wandering

To lose one headline presenter is a misfortune. To lose both, well, that looks like carelessness. But the good news is that the MasterChef team has wasted no time in deciding who its new hosts will be following the departure of both Gregg Wallace and John Torode. In an announcement yesterday they revealed that the two new hosts would be Anna Haugh and Grace Dent making it an all-female team that we're

It's been two years since she lifted the trophy in the 2022 final of MasterChef The Professionals. Now chef Nikita Pathakji is celebrating her first Head Chef role, heading up the kitchen at East London gastropub The Princess of Shoreditch. It's the culmination of a journey that's seen the talented chef work at top London restaurants including Bibendum and Kitchen W8. When she won MasterChef The Professionals

After a year off, Monica Galetti is back in the judges' seat at MasterChef The Professionals.

He won MasterChef the Professionals in 2020 and has been popping up in one form or another at Number One Park Lane for the past eight months, taking over first the terrace and then popping up with a restaurant inside the hotel. Now Alex Webb (whose CV includes Hélène Darroze, Dinner and Roux at Parliament Square) is making his Mayfair pop up permanent.

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A week after Monica Galetti stepped back from MasterChef: The Professionals to concentrate on her family and restaurant, the BBC have found her replacement.

It's an impressive run for sure, but after 14 years, Monica Galetti is stepping down from Masterchef: The Professionals.

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He went down a storm as a MasterChef finalist, now Dr Nawamin Pinpathomrat is back throwing what sounds to be an unmissable popup in London. Crab Anatomy which, he says merges his medical science knowledge and cooking ability.

He'll be using freshly caught Cornish Crab from Rob Wing in St Mawes in a variety of ways. "It’s always been my dream to combine the best of British produce with my own Thai twist, he says, "

Coleman has teamed up with theatrical set designers Darling and Edge to create a new concept with lavish art-filled interiors and bright, fun food to match.

The self-dubbed “MasterChef losers 2016” Bill & Jack, who were finalists on the cooking reality TV show, are bringing their culinary skills to a one month pop-up in the Southbank Centre.