Jeremy Shepherd

Jeremy has devoted his working life to catering, having taken his first job in a pub local to his Leeds home at the age of 18. He moved to London two years later and embarked proper on a career that has taken in My Kinda Town Ltd, Smollensky’s Restaurants, Belgo and the BBC Club.

Jeremy’s first London job was with My Kinda Town Ltd, where he worked up from trainee cocktail bartender to bar manager at the original Chicago Rib Shack inside 6 months, before becoming a duty manager at The Chicago Pizza Pie Factory. After 2 years in a fine dining French brasserie in Esher, Surrey, he spent 9 years with Smollensky’s in the West End, moving up from trainee duty manager to operations manager and at one point working with the award-winning Cyrus Todiwala at Café Spice Namaste. During nearly 4 years with Belgo, he opened the original Bierodrome in Islington before moving to Belgo Zuid in W9. He has been operations manager for the BBC Club in London since 2004, running their 6 London sites and introducing a range of organic, free-range and nutritious meals to the 14,500 members.

Jeremy is passionate about good food, good wine and good people. And music. But he doesn’t like olives very much.

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Saturday 1 November 2008, 1.30pm Lecture Theatre 2
Are we what we eat?



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