The Bertinet Kitchen

The Bertinet Kitchen opened in September 2005 in the centre of beautiful and historic Bath.

Owned and run by French chef and baker, Richard Bertinet, the school offers a range of relaxed and fun courses for food lovers of all abilities and specialist baking and bread-making courses for amateurs and professionals alike. The school won the South West Tourism Award for Best Tourism Experience in 2009 and was the only UK cookery school featured in the US television series on PBS: Gourmet's Adventures with Ruth - a tour of cookery schools around the world.

Richard is originally from Brittany in North West France and trained as a baker from the age of 14. Having moved to the UK in the late 1980's, he started cooking and his catering background included stints at the Chewton Glen Hotel, as head chef at both the Rhinefield House Hotel in the New Forest and the Silver Plough at Pitton in Salisbury (where in 1990 he was awarded Egon Ronay, Pub of the Year and American Express Magazine, UK Pub of the Year), as Operations Director with the Novelli Group of restaurants, as a consultant advising all manner of food related businesses from small start ups to the development of new products for several of the supermarket chains as well as teaching and writing. Richard was named BBC Food Champion of the Year 2010 at the BBC Food & Farming Awards.

The cookery school opened in September 2005 in the same month that Richard's first baking book, DOUGH was published by Kyle Cathie to critical aclaim and a host of awards (IACP Cookery book of the year 2006, James Beard Award for Best Book (Baking & Deserts) and the Julia Child Award for Best First Book). Richard published his second book CRUST in 2007 (World Gourmand Award for Best UK Book (Baking) and his third COOK - In a class of your own in April 2010. He is currently working on a book on Pastry (to be published by Ebury in Spring 2012).