Leiths Food Solutions Ltd
'I was amazed to think that after Chris' visit we were tasting the same menu as before!'
Nicola Creed, Garsington Opera, following a one-week consultation and menu review. Significant and profitable improvements were made to the dishes without changing the structure or names on the menu.
Managing Director Chris Barber has 25 years of experience in the food, restaurant, catering and specialist media sectors.
Recent and current clients
- The Fellow – Kings Cross, London
- Seven Seas Restaurants Limited
- Food Secret Limited
- Kettners
- Pizza Express
- Trishna
- The Pendower Hotel Development
- The Wine Bar and Bistro, Bishops Waltham
- The Yattendon Estate
- Priory Place, Coventry
- The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
- Gondola Group Limited
- Plan My Time - icookathome.com
- Vero Restaurant
- Spice Merchant Group
- Danesfield House Hotel
- Focus PR
- The Plough at Clanfield
- Bianco Nero Restaurant, London
- Maby’s Food and Wine
- Pavilion Sports, Health and Fitness
- Picturehouse cinemas
- Feast
- Land Management Limited
- Lexis Public Relations
- Loyton Lodge
- Longleat
- Henley Food Festival
- Anouska Hempel Management Limited
- The Garsington Opera Limited
- Henrietta Green
- Michael North, Michelin-starred chef of The Nut Tree, Murcott, Oxon
Operational experience
- Twelve years cooking in the Royal Household – devising menus, cooking for heads of state, catering for informal lunches and banquets
- Launching award-winning pub and restaurant, The Goose, which now holds a Michelin star
- Securing investment and re-launching the White Hart Hotel (Nettlebed, Oxfordshire) a 12-room hotel, 100-cover restaurant and bar
- Co-founding of Duchy Originals, from early planning and creative work, to brand development and marketing
- Advising the 2005 high-budget BBC production of Macbeth, set in a Michelin-starred kitchen
- Regular freelance contributions to local and national press
- Regular cooking demonstrations at leading cookery schools in the UK and abroad, and at Henrietta Green's Food Lovers' Fairs
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Often it's really difficult to objectively analyse your own business. You're too close and too busy.
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- Working alongside major prestigious restaurant companies to improve their offer
- Launching many high profile restaurant and food operations
- Creating and part owning the highly successful Henley Food Festival
Other personnel
- In addition to the human and physical resources available through Leiths School of Food and Wine and Leiths List, Leiths Food Solutions Ltd also has a wealth of contacts in the industry to draw on.
- These range from Michelin-starred chefs, restaurateurs and managers through to editors, journalists, PRs and investors actively looking for opportunities in the sector.
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