National Chef of the Year: Kuba Winkowski

Raymond Blanc and Gary Jones protégé Kuba Winkowski speaks to Vincent Wood about his journey to winning National Chef of the Year

A month later, in the bar of the Feathered Nest Inn, home to Amanda and Tony Timmer's three-AA-rosette restaurant and hotel, nestled in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Nether Westcote, and his exhaustion from the competition appears to have faded away. He is back at the pass, buzzing from plates to projects to media calls in the UK and abroad.