Jason Atherton Biography and Wiki
Jason Atherton is an English chef and restaurateur. In 2011, the first year after it opened, his signature eatery Pollen Street Social was awarded a Michelin star. Until April 30, 2010, he served as the executive chef at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze in London, which has a Michelin star. He co-hosted the Sky Living television program My Kitchen Rules in 2014.
Jason Atherton Age and Birthday
Atherton is 51 years old as of 2022. He was born on 6 September 1971 in Worksop, United Kingdom. He celebrates his birthday on September 6th every year.
Jason Atherton Nationality and Ethnicity
Atherton is British nationality by birth. He was born in Worksop, United Kingdom. He is of mixed raced.
Jason Atherton Parents and Family
Atherton is the son of a Skegness hotelier and her joiner husband. His parent fled to London when he was 16 years old while his parents were away on vacation. READ ALSO: Antony Worrall Thompson
Jason Atherton Wife
Atherton is married to Irha Atherton. He together with his three daughters, and his Filipino wife Irha reside in southwest London.
Jason Atherton Height
Atherton stands at an average height of 5 feet 8 inches.
Jason Atherton Net Worth
Atherton has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Million.
Jason Atherton Great British Menu
Atherton frequently appears on “Saturday Kitchen,” and in June 2008, Jason won the third season of the wildly successful “Great British Menu” competition on BBC2. He prepared the starter and the main course at London’s “Gherkin” building. Atherton made a comeback to “Great British Menu” in 2009 and 2010 as a host. At the 2012 Catey Awards, he also took home the “Chef Award.”
Jason Atherton The Social Company
Since then, Jason’s “The Social Company” has developed into a well-known restaurant chain with a variety of eateries, including the Michelin-starred City Social, Social Eating House, Little Social, The Betterment, and Berners Tavern, which has been dubbed “the defining restaurant of the decade,” among others.
Jason Atherton Restaurants
Atherton and Gordon Ramsay oversaw the opening of Maze in the Hilton Prague Old Town in November 2007. The Maze Grill, which is located next to Maze in Grosvenor Square, opened its doors in April 2008. Atherton opened Maze in Cape Town’s One and Only Hotel in 2009, in addition to maze eateries in Melbourne and Qatar.
In order to start his own restaurant business, The Social Company, Atherton left Gordon Ramsay Holdings in 2010. In May 2010, he opened Table No. 1 at the Waterhouse at South Bund hotel in Shanghai, his first independently owned restaurant. Pollen Street Social, his one Michelin-starred flagship restaurant, opened in Mayfair in April 2011.
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The restaurant was ranked third in the 2016 guide and sixth in the 2013 and 2014 editions of The Good Food Guide’s Top 50 Restaurants. It won New Restaurant of the Year at the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards 2012 and was named London’s best new fine dining establishment in the Time Out Eating & Drinking Awards of 2011. The establishment received four AA Rosettes and was recognized as the 2011 BMW Square Meal Restaurant of the Year. The eatery received the “Restaurant of the Year – UK” Readers’ Choice Award from Food and Travel Magazine in 2014, and Jason Atherton was named the Catey’s Restaurateur of the Year.
The Pig and Palm, a 70-seater with a chefs table, tapas bar, main dining area, and lounge area, was designed by architect Lyndon Neri of Neri and Hu, who also designed Atherton’s other restaurants Pollen Street Social, Sosharu, and Kensington Street Social, and opened in Cebu, Philippines, in June 2016. His love letter to his cherished wife is this restaurant. In November 2016, Atherton inaugurated the Temple and Sons eatery in London.
