Ian McAndrew, chef who starred Eastwell Manor, dies
Master Chefs of Great Britain announced his death on 12 October. McAndrew won a Michelin star at Eastwell Manor in 1982 and another at his own restaurant three years later.
Ian McAndrew, the chef credited with taking Eastwell Manor in Kent to a Michelin star in 1982, has died, Master Chefs of Great Britain said in a social media statement on 12 October. The organisation did not give his age or an exact date of death. Several trade titles describe McAndrew as the youngest Englishman of his generation to lead a restaurant to a Michelin star.
McAndrew began his career in the late 1970s with Anton Mosimann at the Dorchester in London's Mayfair, before working at the Carlton Tower and InterContinental hotels. His first head-chef post was at Eastwell Manor, where the kitchen earned a star in 1982. Three years later, he and his wife, Jane, opened Restaurant Seventy Four in Canterbury, which also won a star. He went on to run 116 Knightsbridge in London and the Boathouse Brasserie in Hythe, before moving to Norfolk in the late 1990s to run a culinary consultancy.
Two decades at Blackaddie
He first ate at McAndrew's Canterbury restaurant as a student, a meal that set him on a path toward becoming a chef.
From 2007 to 2021, McAndrew and his wife owned the Blackaddie House Hotel in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland, a nine-bedroom property with a two-AA-rosette restaurant. He also served as culinary director of In House Catering in London and chaired Visit South West Scotland until 2021. He wrote three cookbooks, including A Feast of Fish and Poultry & Game, and published a memoir, Just Call Me Chef, earlier this year.
Tributes from the trade
George McIvor, chairman of Master Chefs of Great Britain, called McAndrew “a dear friend and an inspiration to many young chefs” and offered condolences to Jane and the family, according to the organisation's statement. Chef Phil Howard, of Elystan Street in London, said he first ate at McAndrew's Canterbury restaurant as a student in the late 1980s and that the meal set him on a path toward becoming a chef, The Caterer reported. Kenneth Culhane, head chef at the Dysart Petersham, credited McAndrew's books and classical technique with leaving what he called a lasting inheritance for younger cooks. Simon Young, formerly executive chef at Rosewood London, said McAndrew's first Michelin star had inspired a younger generation of cooks. The tributes arrive during a month of change in British kitchens, with new head chefs named this month at Updown Farmhouse in Kent and at the Quality Chop House in London.
