Marianne Restaurant

Trusted for 10 years

About Marianne LumbMarianne Lumb comes from a butcher’s family in Leicestershire. A voracious eater, she left her studies in architecture to train as a chef.

She completed restaurant training at the Michelin star restaurant Gravetye Manor and has gained experience at The River Café and Le Gavroche.Marianne has worked internationally as a private chef for A-list celebrities, actors, musicians and politicians, work which took her all over the world from The Hamptons to the Côte d’Azur and Australia.

Her former clients include the Bamford family, the Sainsbury family and the Soros family. In 2009 Marianne Lumb made it to the final three of the BBC’s BAFTA Award-winning cookery show MasterChef: The Professionals. In the very month that the show aired, Marianne's first book 'Kitchen Knife Skills' (Quarto) was published to great success. Her attention is now focused exclusively on the September 2013 launch of her first restaurant ‘Marianne’.