Clare Smyth Biography
Clare Smyth is a Northern Irish chef. She is the Chef Patron of the three-Michelin-starred Core by Clare Smyth, which opened in 2017. From 2012 to 2016, she was the Chef Patron at Gordon Ramsay’s Restaurant and received numerous accolades.
Clare Smyth Age and Birthday
Clare is 44 years old as of September 2022. She was born in September 1978 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Clare Smyth Height
Clare stands at an a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.73m) tall.
Clare Smyth Parents – Family
She was born in September 1978 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Clare is the youngest of three children born to her mother Doreen, a waitress at a nearby restaurant, and her father William, a farmer.
Clare Smyth Husband – Married
Smyth is married to Grant, Smyth’s who works in finance, and they both reside in Wandsworth.
Clare Smyth Culinary Books – Career
While attending culinary school, Smyth completed an apprenticeship at Grayshott Hall in Surrey. She left that position to work full-time at Terence Conran’s Michelin-starred House restaurant in London. She then spent six months in Australia working for a catering company. When she returned to the UK, she performed at several restaurants, including Gidleigh Park and The Waterside Inn. She worked as a sous chef and head chef at the St. Enodoc Hotel’s restaurant in Rock, Cornwall. While working there, she was named Young Cornish Fish Chef of the Year. Gordon Ramsay offered Smyth a position at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2002. She became the United Kingdom’s first female chef. to run a restaurant with three Michelin stars when she was named head chef of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 2007.
At the time of her appointment, only seven of the 121 British Michelin-starred restaurants had female head chefs. She had left Ramsay’s restaurant to work for Alain Ducasse’s Le Louis XV in Monaco for a year and a half before returning to the UK to run the restaurant in Chelsea. She succeeded Simone Zanoni, who was traveling to Versailles to open a new Gordon Ramsay establishment. Smyth was named “National Chef of the Year” by the Good Food Guide in 2013. In the Birthday Honours of 2013, Smyth received the honor of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his contributions to the hospitality sector. The 2015 Good Food Guide for the United Kingdom gave Smyth a perfect ten. At the 2016 Catey Awards, she won the Chef Award, which her mentor Gordon Ramsay had previously won in 2000.
Smyth appeared as a judge in The Final Table’s season 1 episode “UK” in 2018. On October 1, 2018, Core was awarded two Michelin stars in the 2019 Michelin Guide. When her restaurant received three Michelin stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide, Core became the first British woman to do so. Smyth is expected to open the Oncore restaurant in Sydney, Australia in November 2021, followed by another location in 2022. In a Bloomberg review, Oncore was dubbed “Sydney’s best restaurant.” Smyth has yet to work in Oncore due to ongoing border restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. For the time being, we’ve kept the menu very close to Core.
Clare Smyth’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $63 million.