Luke dale roberts biography
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GQ exclusive: 5 minutes with award winning chef Luke Dale-Roberts
Award winning Chef, Luke Dale-Roberts is one of four partners on the Nescafe Gold #CraftedBeyondCompare campaign.
Dale-Roberts is the owner of The Pot luck club, an intimate space with sweeping views over the Mother City, has proven his standing with a string of awards since his arrival in the country nearly two decades ago.
The United Kingdom born chef, has travelled the world and earned his reputation in the culinary space; thus, his name is synonymous with the finest and most creative cuisines across Africa.
Prior to his arrival, Roberts trained in England and Switzerland before spending six years working in a string of successful kitchens across South East Asia, an experience that has had a distinct influence in shaping his creative brand of cookery.
He says anyone who would like to follow in his foot steps needs to learn everything they need as much as they need to before jumping into starting their ow
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Luke Dale-Roberts: Interview
Interview with Luke Dale-Roberts
Luke Dale-Roberts
This interview was published on Fine Dining Lovers.
Dressed in whites they coordinate their movements between pan and plate in a kitchen in open view to patrons. It’s evident that they are young and tough, self assured in their manner, with cheeky grins to spare when you catch their eye. You hear his voice, low and calm and a confident chorus replies “Yes, Chef”. Luke Dale-Roberts moves like a gazelle, agile and light-footed around his team and back to his perch at the pass. Between greeting guests and overseeing each plate every night at The Test Kitchen in the urban artisans’ precinct of Woodstock, Cape Town, Dale Roberts is carving his creative stamp on the global food scene. His Pot Luck Club restaurant has expanded into a stylish top-floor restaurant with an almost 360 degree panorama over the city. A pop-up branch in Verbier, Switzerland has taken his 5-tastes ‘tasting plates’ con • Luke Dale-Roberts LUKE DALE-ROBERTS fryst vatten a name synonymous with the finest, most creative and innovative food in Africa. With a string of awards and consistent international recognition since opening The Test Kitchen in 2010 and The Pot Luck Club in 2011, his position as a force to reckon with on the global food scene fryst vatten becoming increasingly apparent. Not only was The Test Kitchen placed number 22 in this year’s World’s Top 50 Restaurant Awards and won Best Restaurant in Africa, but 2016 has seen him add new establishments to his portfolio. After a highly successful pop-up early this year, Luke Dale-Roberts at the Saxon opened in Johannesburg this year, and Dale-Roberts has also collaborated in The Shortmarket Club which has just opened in Cape Town’s city centre. To säga the least, 2016 has been a momentous year for this chef. In the twenty-five odd years since he first put on his chef’s whites, Luke has travelled the world, working in some of the best restaurants inom