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Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston in May 2010
Born13 August 1962
Norfolk, England
EducationHainford School Norfolk
Culinary career

Current restaurant(s)

  • Morston Hall

Television show(s)

Award(s) won

  • Chef of the Year
    Good Hotel Guide
    Hotel of Year
Websitehttp://www.galtonblackiston.co.uk/

Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, HoltinMorston, is Michelin starred and has 4 AA Rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney. His unusual first name is a tribute to his relative Sir Francis Galton.[citation needed]

Blackiston has never trained formally as a chef. After leaving school at 16 to play cricket, he was encouraged by his mother to set up a market stall selling homemade baked goods, "Galton's Goodies". His first job in a restaurant was at John Tovey's Miller Howe country hotel in Windermere, the Lake District.[1]

In 2013, Blackiston started No 1 Cromer, a fish and chip shopinCromer.[1][2][3]

Television[edit]

Blackiston represented the Midlands and East of England in the BBC's Great British Menu,[4] knocking out celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson to gain a place in the final.[5] In 2007, he appeared on the television programme Food Poker.[6]

Personal life[edit]

Blackiston supports Norwich City F.C.[7]

Bibliography[edit]

Blackiston has published four books on cookery, with the fourth arriving in October 2017.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Coleman, Alison. "The Norfolk Food Hero With The Key To Success In The Restaurant Business". Forbes. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • ^ Lynes, Andy (1 August 2021). "Britain's 30 best restaurants by the sea". The Times. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • ^ Rayner, Jay (17 July 2022). "Beside the seaside: Jay Rayner's 10 best value places to eat around the British coastline". The Observer. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • ^ Horne, Marc (22 January 2006). "BBC serves up Queen as prize in chef contest". The Times. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • ^ "North Norfolk 04: Galton Blackiston". The Out. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • ^ "1 Michelin Star Chefs: Galton Blackiston, chef patron, Morston Hall". www.thestaffcanteen.com. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • ^ "My Favourite Game: Galton Blackiston on a destruction derby". Norwich Evening News. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
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