This Relish Fine Dining Guide and Recipe book is undoubtedly one of the most impressive books we have produced, because we have added new features to this book including our Michelin star spotlights. This is a real coup for the Relish team, because our reputation has grown over the years, and now we have the ability to attract every Michelin starred chef in the country to join forces and provide content for this excellent book.

This Relish Fine Dining Guide and Recipe book is undoubtedly one of the most impressive books we have produced, because we have added new features to this book including our Michelin star spotlights.

Relish South East is undoubtedly one of the most impressive books we have produced in this long running series, due to the plethora of outstanding restaurants in the region. With so many acclaimed restaurants across the South East, we decided to alter the format from other books in the series, giving each sub region its own foreword, and a Michelin starred head chef from each area, introducing the best of the local culinary scene.

The South East of England is home to some incredible produce, from wild mushrooms to garlic, venison, beef and lamb, and Luke and I celebrate all these ingredients in our menus at Hartnett Holder & Co. The producers who farm and rear this produce are an important part of the local community and supporting them helps the community to prosper.

Relish offers a great product. For Duncan and his team, the potential for success has been multiplied across the UK by targeting individual chefs. Through enlisting a specialist digital marketing consultant, Duncan and his team are using the skills and knowledge they have learned to transform the way they manage sales and marketing within Relish Publications.

We are very proud to launch Relish Wales at Restaurant James Sommerin. “We worked around the clock to get the restaurant ready in time. We’re intending to showcase the best of Welsh cooking at our new restaurant in Penarth. It was a real honour to invite the best chefs from around the country to celebrate the launch of Relish Wales.

The South West has been an incredible region to produce a book for, as the range of fine dining experiences and outstanding restaurants we have in the book shows. The region really drives for perfection, and there is a real sense that supporting local producers and using locally sourced premium quality products is at the heart of the philosophy of many of the great chefs.

This book is packed full of exceptional places to eat, and delicious recipes to cook, so get stuck into it and hopefully the south west will inspire you as much as it inspires me.

‘I aim to eliminate the myth that preparing French food can be complicated and daunting and hopefully encourage more people to try some of the most famous French classics ever created.’

I aim to eliminate the myth that preparing French food can be complicated and daunting and hopefully encourage more people to try some of the most famous French classics ever created - not originally by me, but by all my gifted predecessors who took the time to refine the art of cuisine in the true meaning of the word

Relish has a great reputation for promoting multiple chefs and destinations from a single region, and so publishing this work for Jean-Christophe compliments both our approach to bringing great recipes to the masses, but also his style of making complex cookery technique and an observance of producing great food.

We are now onto our 14th edition and the response to the new book from our local chefs and restaurateurs has been excellent. Whilst the Relish brand is respected across the UK, as a North East girl, I’m so proud to be involved in placing the North East and Yorkshire on the culinary map. There are some gifted chefs and fabulous restaurants in the North and many chefs hide away from the camera because their passion is to cook. The Relish books give them an opportunity to shine and display their array of talents. As well as offering stunning photography we also have a recommended wine with each course - a very important element when cooking for friends

This is a fantastic achievement for a talented individual chef from our region, and demonstrates the outstanding culinary flair being brought through in our many fine dining establishments.

We are very proud to launch this application and now that tablet devices can handle HD full colour publications, and are available to the mass market, we feel the time is right to make our Relish Books application available. We know it will become a firm favourite for the ultimate foodie and those keen to experiment with new innovative recipes. We waited to launch our product this way, simply because our hard back books have been so well regarded and offer a great quality companion to anyone who loves inventive cooking and fine dining. The online offer through this app carries the same quality graphics and information as our range of books, and we know this opens our product up to the massive ex-pat market and internationally, where demand for high quality British cuisine is very high.

We wanted to work alongside NECTA this year and recognise the contribution of this body to the development of our fine dining sector. Many of the chefs featured in our existing Relish cook books have started their careers in these FE colleges learning the essential skills which are required by all professional chefs. We also wanted to reward the chef of the year, and so have offered an exclusive 2 page insertion in our forthcoming Relish North East and Yorkshire book, to showcase the NECTA event and the winner of this prestigious award. We are glad to be attending the event and also offering a discounted packages of all our recipe books to colleges, as aides to excellence, and to be presenting an award at the gala dinner.

The turnout for the launch was amazing and a real credit to the culinary profession in Scotland. We had the most talented chefs ever assembled in one location for a really great afternoon and after some formal introductions, the whole day was a chance to relax and enjoy great company and to spend some time informally, which is a real luxury for these hard working and committed restaurant operators. The top chefs in the region work long hours and they deserved the opportunity to meet and celebrate the success of their publication.

We work with dozens of outstanding restaurants and we feature in our guides, the most innovative, creative and highest quality chefs on the British restaurant scene today. All our books offer a fantastic insight into the chefs and their restaurants, and with a selection of recipes from each chef, a Relish publication is a great addition to any keen cooks’ bookshelf.