TV chef Cyrus is coming to Wisbech

Popular television chef and restaurateur, Cyrus Todiwala will be making a return visit to Wisbech Grammar School to create an Evening of Fantastic Food.

The school has been extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to host Cyrus on several occasions in the past for what is always an entertaining evening and a chance to meet the chef.

He will be back at the Wisbech Grammar on Friday, May 26.

Cyrus Todiwala OBE DL FIH is a chef, restaurateur, educationist, author, and entrepreneur. Genial and down-to-earth, his accessible persona masks an encyclopaedic knowledge of food history and cuisine and many a sophisticated turn in the kitchen.

He is a regular on television programmes such as Saturday Kitchen and was one half of the highly popular BBC series "The Spice Men".

Together with his wife Pervin, Cyrus runs four restaurants. The soon to reopen Café Spice Namasté at Royal Albert Wharf is a 25-year-old institution and the longest running Michelin BIB Gourmand restaurant (credited with 'good food, good value').

Two hotel restaurants bear his name: Mr Todiwala's Kitchen at the de-luxe Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 and Mr Todiwala's Kitchen at the Lincoln Plaza London, part of the Hilton Curio Collection.

Mr Todiwala's Petiscos in Buckhurst Hill is a small neighbourhood restaurant located in the London-Essex border.

Following a traditional boarding school education in Maharashtra, India, Cyrus decided on a road less travelled, completing four years of classical chef training in Mumbai.

He began his career as a hotel chef with the Taj Group, rising to executive chef of the sprawling Taj Holiday Village in Goa.

For his visit to Wisbech in May, Cyrus will be working with pupils and his own team of chefs to produce a four-course meal.

There will be a glass of fizz on arrival served alongside canapès, followed by three courses of delicious food and the chance to meet Cyrus.

Tickets can still be sourced from the Special Events Tab on www.wisbechgrammar.com.