{"id":4651,"date":"2012-06-22T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2012-06-22T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:43:43","slug":"%e2%80%98recipe-for-success%e2%80%99-with-celebrity-chef-and-stena-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2012\/06\/%e2%80%98recipe-for-success%e2%80%99-with-celebrity-chef-and-stena-line\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RECIPE FOR SUCCESS\u2019 WITH CELEBRITY CHEF AND STENA LINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

CELEBRITY chef Kevin Woodford arrived in Belfast this week to take his partnership with leading ferry company Stena Line onto its next course.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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READY STENA COOK! Celebrity chef Kevin Woodford arrived in Belfast this week to take his partnership with leading ferry company Stena Line onto its next course. Woodford, who has featured as one of the celebrity chefs on ITV\u0092s This Morning has been working with the ferry company since May across all five of its Irish Sea routes - Belfast to Cairnryan, Belfast to Liverpool, Dublin Port to Holyhead, Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead and Rosslare to Fishguard. The Liverpudlian chef has now set up a dedicated offshore teaching kitchen at Belfast\u0092s Metropolitan College to fine tune the culinary skills of the Stena Line team and share his vast experience. Stena Line\u0092s target is to have a new standardised menu for the Irish Sea routes by early summer. Pictured with Kevin is Stena Line\u0092s Executive Head Chef for the Irish Sea, Dave Williams and (back) some of the Stena Line Irish Sea chefs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Woodford, who has featured as one of the celebrity chefs on ITV\u2019s This Morning<\/em> with presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, has been working with the ferry company since May across all five of its Irish Sea routes – Belfast to Cairnryan, Belfast to Liverpool, Dublin Port to Holyhead, Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead and Rosslare to Fishguard.<\/p>\n

The Liverpudlian chef has now set up a dedicated offshore teaching kitchen at Belfast\u2019s Metropolitan College to fine-tune the culinary skills of the Stena Line team and share his vast experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe the chefs on Stena Line have a really good product and I want to find ways of tweaking and fine tuning it,\u201d said Kevin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see great passion in these guys which I want to ensure is reflected in the dishes they serve to their thousands of passengers who sail with Stena Line on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the team have never had experience of working outside the ship so I think I can bring certain skills to those individuals to enhance the great work they are already doing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The culinary partnership with Woodford was set up as part of Stena Line\u2019s plan to develop its onboard food offering for customers and comes on the back of company research which shows that quality food provision scores consistently in the \u2018Top 5\u2019 requirements of an enjoyable ferry travel experience as Jamie Christon, Stena Line\u2019s route director for central corridor and head of onboard support services for the UK and Ireland, explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood is a very important part of our overall customer service experience.\u00a0 In recent years we have invested hundreds of millions of pounds throughout the Irish Sea in our ships and ports and it\u2019s important that our food proposition keeps pace with this development,\u201d said Jamie.<\/p>\n

\u201cKevin has been working with our chefs over the past month, travelling on each of our ships on the Irish Sea and has developed a great understanding of what we need to do to take our food offering to a higher level.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur chefs are really enjoying the experience, not just because of Kevin\u2019s obvious talent as a chef but also his infectious enthusiasm and inspiration when it comes to food preparation and delivery,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very excited to reveal the results of this culinary partnership in the coming weeks, onboard all of our ships on the Irish Sea,\u201d Jamie added.<\/p>\n

Stena Line\u2019s target is to have a new standardised menu for the Irish Sea routes by early summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CELEBRITY chef Kevin Woodford arrived in Belfast this week to take his partnership with leading ferry company Stena Line onto its next course. Woodford, who has featured as one of the celebrity chefs on ITV\u2019s This Morning with presenters Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, has been working with the ferry company since May across all … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}