Mark Sargeant (Rest.)

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Mark Sargeant is an award-winning chef and former Head Chef of Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred restaurant at Claridge's in London.

Born in Kent, Mark trained at West Kent College and was voted Young Chef of the Year in 1996 and National Chef of the Year in 2002. He worked for Gordon Ramsay for 13 years first at Aubergine in 1998 before spending three years as Sous Chef at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea from 1998 to 2001. He left there to open the highly acclaimed Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's where he was Head Chef from 2001 to 2008, earning a Michelin star in 2002.

Since his work alongside Gordon on Hell’s Kitchen and The F Word, Mark has delved further into cooking on screen with appearances on The Great British Menu, Market Kitchen and Saturday Kitchen, and has contributed to live shows Taste of London 2010 and the BBC Good Food Show.

Having collaborated with Gordon Ramsay on over ten of his book publicatons and co-authored Gordon Ramsay's Great British Pub Food (HarperCollins 2009), Mark has written his own book My Kind of Cooking, to be published in 2011.