Marcus Wareing

Who is Marcus Wareing?

Marcus Wareing is an English celebrity chef, currently Chef Patron of Marcus in Knightsbridge, and formerly Pétrus in the same location. He also oversees The Gilbert Scott at the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel and has lent a menu to the Aalto at the Hotel La Tour in Birmingham. Wareing has previously been head chef at L’Oranger and the Grill Room at the Savoy Hotel.

He has had a long-standing partnership and rivalry with Gordon Ramsay; the pair first met at Le Gavroche under Albert Roux. The partnership would dissolve during publicised disagreement in 2008 when the Berkeley Hotel decided to work directly with Wareing rather than through Ramsay's holding company and the following legal arrangement resulted in Ramsay retaining the rights to the Pétrus name while Wareing went on to open his restaurant in the location. Wareing won the dessert course of the 2006 series of the BBC's Great British Menu, and would appear as a judge in later series of the show, although his first television appearance was in the Ramsay based show Boiling Point.