Peter Gordon (chef)

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name = Peter Gordon
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birthplace = Wanganui, New Zealand
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restaurants = The Sugar Club (Wellington)
The Providores (London)
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (London)
dine by Peter Gordon (Auckland)
changa (Istanbul)
PUBLIC (New York City)
Bellota (Auckland)
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Peter Gordon is a chef who was born in 1963 in the coastal town of Wanganui, New Zealand. He moved to Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 where he worked for 5 years before travelling through Asia for a year, and then returned to New Zealand. He moved to London in 1989 where he has lived since. In 1994 he was a bone marrow donor to his sister Tracey who was suffering from leukaemia. [The Times, (9 July, 2005), [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/healthy_eating/article541572.ece The world on his plate] .] In 2005 he was ranked as one of Britain's 100 most influential gay and lesbian people. [Rainbownetwork.com, (June 29, 2005), [http://www.rainbownetwork.com/Features/detail.asp?iData=23702&iCat=32&iChannel=25&nChannel=Features#top The Pink List 2005] . Retrieved June 25, 2007.]

Career

Peter set up the the kitchen of the original The Sugar Club restaurant in Wellington, New Zealand in 1986 followed by two British incarnations in London's Notting Hill, in 1996 and West Soho, London in 1998. In 2001 he set up The Providores and Tapa Room Restaurant on Marylebone High Street with his partner Michael McGrath and 2 other partners. Michael and Peter are now sole owners of the business, along with the owners of changa restaurant in Istanbul (Tarik Bayazit and Savas Ertunc), and UK based Annie Smail.In 2004 he set up dine by Peter Gordon restaurant in the SKYCITY Grand Hotel Auckland, followed soon by Bellota tapas bar in 2006.Peter and Michael are also co-owners of the lauded vineyard Waitaki Braids in North Otago, New Zealand.Peter's personal website is www.peter-gordon.net

Restaurants

*The Providores and Tapa Room (London, UK)
*Dine by Peter Gordon at The SKYCITY Grand Hotel (Auckland, New Zealand)
*Bellota tapas bar at SKYCITY (Auckland, New Zealand)
*Gourmet Burger Kitchen - consultancy (various UK sites)
*changa, and muzedechanga restaurant (Istanbul, Turkey)
*PUBLIC - helped set up (New York, USA)
*The Sugar Club - Head chef at(now closed - Wellington, New Zealand, and London, UK)

References

External links

* [http://www.theprovidores.co.uk/first.html The Providores restaurant (Marylebone, London)]
* [http://www.skycitygrand.co.nz Dine by Peter Gordon restaurant]
* [http://www.peter-gordon.net/ Peter Gordon's condiments range and other news]
* [http://www.changa-istanbul.com changa restaurant Istanbul]
* [http://www.public-nyc.com PUBLIC restaurant]
* [http://www.gbkinfo.co.uk Gourmet Burger Kitchen restaurants]
* [http://www.bellota.co.nz Bellota BAR DE TAPA Y VINOS]
* [http://www.skycityauckland.co.nz/skycity/fms/Document%20Tree/Auckland/Restaurants/Dine%20Auckland/dine_pg_spring06_256.jpgSkyCity]
* [http://www.tasteofwaitaki.co.nz/content/view/54/52/ "Peter's Bio" on the "Taste of Waitaki"]