Marcus Wareing (born 1970 in Southport, Lancashire), is an English chef, currently Chef Patron of "Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley (formerly Pétrus) in Knightsbridge, and previously the Grill Room at the Savoy Hotel on the Strand. In September 2008, Pétrus was controversially voted London's Best Restaurant ahead of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay by food bible Harden's.

A protégé of Gordon Ramsay, Wareing joined Ramsay's Aubergine in 1993, where he became Sous Chef behind Head Chef Ramsay. After running the Grill Room at the Savoy Hotel on the Strand, Wareing opened and operated Pétrus on behalf of Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) at the Berkeley Hotel. The restaurant was awarded two Michelin stars and five AA Rosettes, while the Savoy Grill achieved its first Michelin star in its 100-plus year history since he took over. In 2004 Marcus Wareing was voted Restaurateur of the Year at the Tatler Restaurant Awards.

Following months of industry rumour, in May 2008 the Berkeley Hotel confirmed that it intended to work directly with Wareing to launch its own restaurant, and he would take on the lease from 19 September 2008. The new restaurant would later be named Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley and would go on to earn two Michelin stars in its own right which it currently retains.

Simon Rimmer (born 5 May 1963) is the resident chef on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch which started on Sunday 25 March 2012. Sunday Brunch replaced Simon's previous show BBC2's Something for the Weekend, which first aired on Sunday 8 October 2006. He is also the face of cooking video website, Eat The Chef. He is married with two children.

Despite not being a vegetarian himself, Rimmer founded Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in West Didsbury, Manchester in 1990. Two years later, The Guardian described Greens as one of the most exciting new restaurants in UK, and it has gone on to win several awards, including The Big Issue's Restaurant of the Year, and most recently North-west Restaurant of the Year.

His television career began with Granada Breeze, hosting shows such as Livetime and Battle of the Chefs. However, he has also appeared regularly on programmes including This Morning, Granada Tonight, A Taste for Travel, Lunchtime Live and The Afternoon Show, Gloria’s Open House – Channel 5, Xchange for CBBC and a spot of co-presenting on UKTV's Great Food Live and BBC1's To Buy or Not to Buy. Simon presented This Little Farmer for BBC One and Making a Meal of It, also for BBC Two.

Waterside Inn, located in Bray, Berkshire, England, was founded by the brothers Michel and Albert Roux after the success of Le Gavroche. It is currently run by Michel's son, Alain. The restaurant has three Michelin stars, and in 2010 it became the first restaurant outside of France to retain all three stars for twenty five years.

The Waterside Inn opened in 1972, following the Roux brothers' success at Le Gavroche. Pierre Koffmann was made the first head chef, having worked for Michel and Albert Roux at Le Gavroche. Koffmann remained as head chef until 1977 when he left to open his own restaurant, La Tante Claire. Michel Roux took over as head chef at the restaurant, slowly handing the reins over during the 2010s to his son and the current chef-patron, Alain Roux. Michel spoke of the handover, "The Waterside Inn has been my life but now my son runs it. What could be better? I am very proud of him. After all his name is above the door." Alain has added his own menu items to the restaurant while keeping Roux family classics like soufflé suissesse and tronçonnette de homard. Diego Masciaga has been the restaurant manager since 1988, and speaks of the two chefs highly, "Mr Michel was always there in the kitchen – morning, afternoon, night – with his big voice. Now it is the turn of Alain. Alain is a great man, too, but in his own way."

Giles Coren is a British food critic, television presenter and novelist. He is known for expressing controversial opinions, and for his television appearances with the comedian Sue Perkins.

Coren was born in Paddington, London, the son of British humorist Alan Coren and elder brother of journalist Victoria Coren. He was educated at The Hall School in Hampstead,Westminster School, and read English at Keble College, Oxford.

He lives in Kentish Town, Camden, London, with his wife Esther Walker.

Coren has been a columnist for the British newspaper The Times since 1993, and was named 2005 "Food And Drink Writer of the Year". As well as restaurant reviews, he also contributes a column to The Times, the subjects of which range from personal life to politics. Under the pseudonym 'Professor Gideon Garter', he wrote The Intellectual's Guide to Fashion in The Sunday Times.

Coren is credited by inventor James Dyson as the co-author of his autobiography published in 1997.

In 2005, he published his first novel, Winkler, reviewed in The New Statesman and The Independent One section of the novel won the Literary Review's "Bad Sex in Fiction Award".