Adam Handling

Adam Handling (born 17 September 1988) is a British chef and restaurateur. He is the owner of the Adam Handling Restaurant Group which encompasses five food and drink venues across London.

Adam Handling
Born
Adam Handling

(1988-09-17) 17 September 1988
Scotland, UK
Websitewww.adamhandling.co.uk

Career

Handling started his culinary training aged 16 as the first apprentice chef at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. He went on to work in London before becoming sous chef at the Malmaison hotel in Newcastle. He then moved back to Scotland to become the Fairmont Group's youngest ever head chef at the Fairmont St Andrews.[1][2] Handling took on the role of head chef at St. Ermin's Hotel in St James's Park, London. From there, he entered and became a finalist in series 6 of Masterchef: The Professionals in 2013.[3]

Handling officially opened Restaurant Adam Handling at Caxton in 2014,[4] which won a three rosettes award from the AA.[5] The next year, it was named Best Newcomer UK Restaurant by Food and Travel Magazine.[6]

Handling published his first cookbook in October 2014, entitled Smile or Get Out of the Kitchen, with a foreword by Masterchef judge Monica Galetti.[7]

In June 2016, Handling opened his first independent restaurant, The Frog, in Spitalfields, London,[8][9] and appeared in series 11 of Great British Menu.[10]

Restaurants

Adam Handling Restaurant Group encompasses five food and drink venues across London. Frog by Adam Handling opened in September 2017,[11] followed by bar venue Eve Bar later that year.[12] Handling opened a second restaurant, The Frog Hoxton, the following year.[13] In February 2019, Adam Handling Chelsea opened at the Belmond Cadogan Hotel;[14] Handling now also serves as the hotel's chef patron.[15] In November 2019, Handling opened a fifth London venue, Ugly Butterfly.[16] Ugly Butterfly and Frog Hoxton are now closed, August 2020.

Awards and honours

Handling won an Acorn Award in 2013 and was the youngest person to be listed by magazine The Caterer as one of the "30 under 30 to watch".[17] He has since been crowned the British Culinary Federation's "Chef of the Year 2014".[18] Handling won the overall title at the Scottish Chef of the Year Awards in 2015.[19]

Handling's restaurants have won several awards from the Food and Travel Magazine Awards, including "London Restaurant of The Year" and "UK Best Restaurant of the Year" in 2017,[20] and "Best Newcomer Restaurant" in 2018.[21] Handling was named Chef of the Year by the magazine in 2019.[22]

His venues won "Wine List of the Year" at the 2019 Wine List Confidential Awards[23] and "Cocktail List of the Year" at the 2019 National Restaurant Awards.[24]

Bibliography
  • Handling, Adam; Galetti, Monica (1 October 2014). Smile or get out of the kitchen (1st ed.). Sheffield: Meze Publishing. ISBN 9780992898120.

References
  1. "Adam Handling – Head Chef at The Frog restaurant". Adam Handling – The Head Chef. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. Rayner, Jay (14 December 2014). "Adam Handling at Caxton: restaurant review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  3. "MasterChef: The Professionals 2013 – Steven Edwards, Adam Handling and". The Independent. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  4. "Chef Adam Handling Gets Personal with his New Menu". Hospitality & Catering News.
  5. "Adam Handling". Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  6. Rankin, Gregor (28 October 2015), Food and Travel Reader Awards 2015, retrieved 12 December 2019
  7. "Book review: Smile or Get Out of the Kitchen". The Caterer. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  8. "Home – The Frog Restaurant".
  9. Richardvines, Richard Vines. "London Hasn't Yet Discovered This Millennial Chef But Should".
  10. "BBC Two - Great British Menu, Series 11 - Adam Handling". BBC. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  11. "Making the second successful leap". The Independent. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  12. L, Alex; February, on 1; 2019 (1 February 2019). "The Sinfully Good Cocktail Bar With Temptation On The Menu". Secret London. Retrieved 23 December 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. "Restaurant Review: The Frog Hoxton, the latest from chef Adam Handling". The London Economic. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  14. Carington, Francesca. "The lowdown on Adam Handling's new restaurant at the Belmond Cadogan Hotel". Tatler. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  15. "Belmond appoints Adam Handling as Executive Chef at Belmond Cadogan Hotel". www.belmond.com. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  16. "Ugly Butterfly | Restaurants in King's Road, London". Time Out London. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  17. "Acorn Awards 2013 winners revealed". The Caterer. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  18. BigHospitality.co.uk. "Adam Handling named BCF Chef of the Year 2014". BigHospitality.co.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  19. "Adam Handling announces cook book signings in Scotland". Citylicious®. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  20. Rankin, Gregor (20 December 2017), Food and Travel Reader Awards 2017, retrieved 12 December 2019
  21. Rankin, Gregor (28 January 2019), Food and Travel Reader Awards 2018, retrieved 12 December 2019
  22. "Chef of the Year". Food and Travel Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2020 – via Pressreader.
  23. "Wine List Confidential Awards 2019: The winners". Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  24. "Cocktail List Of The Year". National Restaurant Awards. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
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