Chef Steven Saunders
Culinary Expert
Culinary Expert
Fellow Master Chef Steven Saunders FMCGB
Chef Steven Saunders was trained at the famous Savoy Hotel in London in the seventies and went on to become Britain’s youngest ever Chef Patron of a privately owned restaurant and coaching Inn in North Essex in 1981. Steven was only 19.
After several years as Chef Patron Steven bought his first restaurant The Pink Geranium in 1986 with a 100% bank loan and with the assistance of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on her young entrepreneurs business scheme.
Steven launched his famous Rolls Royce service (collecting clients free of charge) in 1987 and he had his own radio show with BBC Radio Cambridgeshire appearing twice weekly presenting his recipes for modern organic cuisine. In 1989 Steven was awarded the coveted Michelin red M (Bib Gourmand) and 3 AA Rosettes putting The Pink Geranium in the top 50 restaurants in the UK.
In 1993 Steven appeared as a regular on BBC’s Good Morning TV and in 1994 Steven was launch chef for the popular BBC hit TV series Ready Steady Cook which he appeared on for over 4 years.Steven was also chef presenter for Channel 4’s Here’s one I made earlier’ (175 shows) and often appeared on other TV shows like This Morning, Through the Keyhole, Afternoon live, BBC Food Network and various quiz food shows. Steven has written 10 best selling cookery books selling over three quarters of a million copies worldwide.
He expanded his restaurant and hotel business in the nineties and early 2000´s with The Sheene Mill Hotel Cambridgshire, TheLowry in Manchester, Brocket Hall Welwyn Garden City (which was awarded a Michelin star in 2006) and Steven Saunders in Newmarket the first ever 100% accredited organic restaurant. During this period Steven won awards for Best Restaurant UK (for The Pink Geranium) Business Person of the Year, Fellow of the Master chefs Association (about 30 worldwide) Young Entrepreneur of the Year and a Caterer/ Acorn Award for Best Young Restaurateur and chef.
In 2007, Steven launched a company to cater for Silverstone racing Circuit and some Formula 1 sites, called Aspire Hospitality. Steven grew the company from zero to over 50 million managing Silverstone Racing Circuit, Abu Dhabi, Monaco, Barcelona and some Moto GP circuits.
In 2015 Steven decided to slow down and he and his wife Michele opened a new concept restaurant in Spain called The Little Geranium in La Cala de Mijas. The restaurant offers a VIP Porsche Chauffeur service exclusively for its clients. The Little Geranium was instantly a hit and has been awarded Best International Restaurant Costa Del Sol in 2019 and Best International Restaurant, Spain in 2020 putting it on the luxury restaurant list as one of the Top 100 restaurants of the world and Best Luxury Restaurant Marbella 2020.
Steven writes a weekly food page for The Euroweekly Newspaper every week reaching over 2 million followers. He also has a radio show on Global Radio on the Costa Del sol. Steven and Michele also own a company called HomeChef which delivers high quality restaurant standard food to your home in Spain.
