Sam Buckley, the chef and owner of Stockport restaurant Where The Light Gets In, is to become the first ever ‘chef in residence’ at the Chelsea Flower Show. Sam will be in charge of the show’s first ‘working kitchen’ at the world famous horticultural show.
A partnership with the real estate firm Savills, the garden has been devised by award-winning designer Mark Gregory, and works on the idea of ‘plot to plate’. Sam will be foraging food from the garden, and using it to create menus from the kitchen during the show, which starts next month.
Any food that’s not used will be kept and used for menus the next day, ensuring that nothing is wasted.
READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community
Sam has already been celebrated for his dedication to both growing the restaurant’s own food - on the roof of the Merseyway shopping centre - and providing urban green space for the town. He was given one of the first Michelin ‘green stars’ last year for his work in sustainability.
“I was thrilled to be asked to cook on the Savills Garden, especially as we’ll be making history with the first working kitchen on a show garden at Chelsea,” he said. “Mark Gregory’s planting scheme will offer such a range of flavours, allowing me to create a new lunch menu each day of the show.
“This plays very much to the responsive cooking style followed in my restaurant, where menus are inspired by local produce and whatever is ripe on The Landing, our own growing space in Stockport.”
Where The Light Gets In opened in 2016, in an old coffee warehouse in Stockport, and has received rave reviews from national critics, while chef and owner Sam has appeared on the Great British Menu on the BBC.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show runs from May 22 to May 27 at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
READ MORE:
Manchester tea rooms named among most Instagrammable in the whole world
"Most colourful exhibition of the year" coming to Salford direct from Paris in UK art exclusive
Inside new "Insta-perfect" pink cake cafe EL&N at Trafford Palazzo
'I tried a lounge at Manchester Airport and couldn't believe what I got for the price'
'I found some of Manchester's most exciting food in a backstreet café with a wonky roof'
