Developing our future kitchen leaders

Chef Academy

Our Chef Academy

At Honeycomb Houses we are committed to developing our very best talent and unlocking the full potential of our people. For our kitchen team we offer a chef academy which takes our rising stars to new heights through a range of new experiences and training to stretch their skills and help become the future leaders of our kitchens.

What is our Chef Academy?

The Honeycomb Houses Chef Academy is a nine-month programme with masterclasses in pizza making, butchery, fishmongery and more, as well as supplier visits, menu development workshops and cooking challenges with the aim of producing a pipeline of incredible kitchen talent ready to run their own kitchens.

Pizza Masterclass

We took the next generation of kitchen leaders to a pizza masterclass with legendary Master Pizzaiolo, Luigi Forte.

 

For some of our team, this was their first experience at hand stretching pizzas, and for those who were experienced, they left with better and more efficient ways of stretching but also took away the knowledge and the science of what makes an incredible pizza.

 

A huge thanks to Luigi Forte for sharing your skills, and the team Salvo for hosting the day at their London office.

Head of Food, Ken Umasanthiram

"It's an absolute privilege to dedicate time to our chef academy and develop our people to help them become the best in the industry. Watching the growth of our chef's work their way through to Head Chef fills me with pride."