Marco Pierre White to Tour Sri Lanka with Cinnamon

Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts, together with Sri Lankan Airlines, is flying the British celebrated restaurateur and 3-Michelin Star Chef, Marco Pierre White to Sri Lanka from 18 to 31 January 2016.

Chef Marco Pierre White - the youngest chef to be awarded a Michelin star - will showcase his culinary expertise at various events organized by Cinnamon, where he will engage with personnel from the hospitality trade and socialites in Sri Lanka as well as with select bloggers and freelancers from around the world.

During the celebrity chef’s visit to Sri Lanka, he will curate a themed dinner in Colombo and Cinnamon will enable guests to interact with him. The celebrity chef will also hold a ‘master class’.

Marco Pierre White trained in London as a chef at Le Gavroche and later at La Tante Claire, Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons and at Ninety Park Lane.

Marco Pierre White began as an independent chef at the Six Bells public house and, in 1987 started the Harveys restaurant at Wandsworth Common, London. Following this, he moved to work as patron chefs of the restaurant in his name at the former Hyde Park Hotel and at the Oak Room at Le Meridien Piccadilly. During this period, renowned chefs such as Gordon Ramsay and Robert Reid trained under him.

He has appeared in many television shows including Hell's Kitchen in 2007 as the head chef on ITV network. In 2008 the television series The Chopping Block produced by Granada America featured Marco Pierre White as the presenter. He is now more popularly known as the judge for Australian Master Chef. He has also authored many best selling cookbooks.

Head of Brand Marketing at Cinnamon Hotels & Resorts, Dileep Mudadeniya, said, “We are delighted to be flying down celebrated chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White and exposing Sri Lanka to this celebrated Chef. Sri Lanka has much to offer in terms of traditional cuisine, and coupled with the biodiversity hotspots, Cinnamon is poised to take him on a delectable tour. We are also proud to have Chef White share his expertise with the rest of the industry by organizing a themed dinner and an exclusive master class for industry professionals. We are privileged to partner a reputed global personality such as Marco Pierre White and are confident that he will recommend our hospitality to the rest of the world.” 

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