Roux scholarship

This year’s Roux Scholarship hopefuls were given the daunting task of recreating dishes beloved of the scholarship’s founders, Albert and Michel Roux. Emma Lake observed the final

Oli Williamson has been named the 2021 Roux Scholar following a tense day of competition that saw six chefs cook two dishes beloved by Michel and Albert Roux, in tribute to the competition’s founders.

Alain Roux, part of a dynasty of French chefs in charge of some of the UK’s most well-regarded restaurants, still considers himself the new boy in the kitchen at the Waterside Inn.

The 2020 Roux Scholarship, which was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, has been postponed until March 2021.