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Roy Ackerman’s career spans over 40 years in the hospitality, restaurant and associated industries. He started his career as an apprentice Chef.
Current Public Roles
Honorary President of the Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
Chairman of Honorary Members, The Academy of Culinary Arts
Honorary Vice President of the Restaurant Association
Chairman of the World Master of Culinary Arts
Councillor Wine Guild of the United Kingdom
Trustee of the Debenture Holders Chelsea Arts Club
Patron and Director of International Centre for Child Studies
Patron of the Police Foundation
Patron of Bristol Cathedral Appeal Fund
Honorary Fellow of the HCIMA
Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Food & Wine Service
Honorary Member of Academie Culinaire Francaise
Honorary Member of the City & Guilds Institute
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Honorary Fellow of The British Hospitality Association
Past Public Roles have included
Chairman and President of the Restaurant Association, now Honorary Vice President
Chairman of the Hotel & Catering Training Board/Hospitality Training Foundation
Chairman of the Catering Review Board, The Millennium Dome
Chairman of the Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
Chairman Young Chef Young Waiter Competition
Chairman Chef & Potter Culinary Competition
Current Business Roles
Tadema Studios, Restaurant and Concept Consultancy
Tadema Studios Publishing and TV - Roy Ackerman has published 30 books and produced 6 major TV programmes
Past Business Roles have included
Chairman of Simpsons of Cornhill plc
Deputy Chairman of Kennedy Brooks plc
Chairman of The Restaurant Partnership plc
Chairman of 190 Queen’s Gate plc
His client list for consultancy has included Henri Wintermans, Café Crème, Martell Cognac, Charles Heidsieck Champagne, Meat & Livestock Commission, Nestlé, American Express, Visa, Cellnet, Seagrams, British Water Authority, British Airways, various Hotel Companies.
Roy Ackerman was awarded an OBE in 1990, an Honorary Doctorate from de Montfort University in 1992 and was voted Personnalité de L’Année for worldwide gastronomy in 1992. Awarded a CBE in 2004
TADEMA STUDIOS
Tadema Studios creates concepts for the restaurant/hotel industry and also individual chefs and restaurateurs. Tadema Studios has developed over 50 concepts, including Collage, Tapaell’ya, Hilaire, Quinceys, Bistro Bistrot and worked in tandem with Simply Nico, Locanda Locatelli, Bar 606 and Brian Turner.
Recent Projects have included:
Locanda Locatelli at the Churchill Hyatt
One of the outstanding successes was Locanda Locatelli at the Churchill Inter-Continental (now Hyatt), Portman Square - an outsourcing of the fine dining restaurant. This venture has been a great success for the hotel and Giorgio Locatelli - a Roy Ackerman/Tadema Studios initiative.
Brian Turner at the Millennium Grosvenor SquareLondon
A second restaurant for Brian Turner at the Millennium Hotel,Grosvenor Square: Roy Ackerman/Parallel
Intercontinental Park Lane
Theo Randall’s Restaurant, and the Cookbook Café at the Intercontinental Park Lane were a Roy Ackerman/Tadema Studios initiative.
Jury’s 108 Marylebone Lane - a Roy Ackerman/Tadema Studios initiative
Also
Collage Restaurant at the Radisson SAS Hotel Glasgow
Tapaell’ya Bar & Restaurant at the Radisson SAS Hotel Glasgow
Filini Restaurant Radisson SAS Birmingham
Filini Restaurant Radisson SAS Liverpool
Filini Restaurant Radisson SAS Belfast
Filini Restaurant Radisson SAS Stansted
Tapaell’ya Restaurant Radisson SAS Stansted
NYGB Restaurant Radisson SAS Stansted
Homage Grand Salon Cafe, Patisserie and Bar - The Waldorf Hilton
Nippon Tuk Bar & Restaurant Hilton Edgware Road
Refettorio at CrownePlazaCity
Little Island Grill Radisson SAS Cork
ItchycooBar Restaurant Radisson SAS Edinburgh
Future Projects:
Kerzner International, The Palm, Dubai, with Georgio Locatelli
2 new hotel projects in Edinburgh and Kuwait
2 new Filinis in Europe
*ASSOCIATE COMPANIES
Tadema Studios Publishing
This is the company responsible for publishing food, restaurant and hotel guides. Roy has produced more than 30 related titles.
His Book and TV credits include:
Books: The Ackerman Guide, an illustrated guide book to the best restaurants and hotels in the British Isles, Paris & New York (Penguin 1987); Roy Ackerman’s Recipe Collection, The Chefs’ Compendium and The Chef’s Apprentice; The Ackerman Charles Heidsieck Guide 1993/1996; The Ackerman Martell Guide to Europe 1992/1995; The Café Crème Guide to the Cafés of Europe 1998/2003. His publishing interests have also included ownership of the range of Egon Ronay’s Guides and Taste Magazine.
Televison:
Chef for a Night, a 6-part series for Channel 4; Café Crème Guide to the Cafés of Europe; The Cookery Clinic, an 8-part live cookery show; The Best of British, a 6-part series televised by Granada, BBC2 and Living TV; Cooking Oils with Brian Sewell for BBC2. Roy originated and presented the 6-part documentary The Chef’s Apprentice (with accompanying book), networked on ITV and the Discovery Channel.
Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
February 2003 also saw Roy taking the Presidency of Henley Festival of Music and the Arts. Henley Festival, was based on a concept by Roy, 26 years ago and he served as Chairman for the first eight years of the Festival and has now been made Honorary President. The Festival, situated in the Royal Enclosure, takes place the week after Henley Royal Regatta and features eight different musical or theatrical performances accompanied by various foods, including a floating grandstand where the orchestra play. It regularly attracts crowds of 25,000 and is now one of the best-known music festivals in Europe.
World Master of Culinary Arts
The World Master of Culinary Arts is an event which happens every five years which covers Australia, Asia, the Americas and Europe with 12 countries in all. Roy Ackerman is responsible, as Chairman of the International Panel of Judges, for supervising the selection of the leading chefs in each of the countries involved and working with the independent jury members to select the No. 1 Chef/Master of Culinary Arts of the World.
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