Stuart Gillies is an English chef. He is currently head chef at the Gordon Ramsay-owned Boxwood Café and will be Chef Patron at the reopened Savoy Hotel in October 2010.[1]
After training in the UK, Gillies spent a year in Rome at the Lord Byron Hotel, and three years in Stockholm, Sweden. He then moved to Daniel's in New York, working under the direction of Daniel Boulud. On returning to the UK, he worked at Le Caprice in London, before being selected by Gordon Ramsay to head the Boxwood Café. He joined Angela Hartnett as head chef at The Connaught, before opening the Boxwood Cafe in May 2003.
Gillies has appeared on television on GMTV, and as a guest on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. He was chosen to compete in the second series of the Great British Menu, which aired Spring 2007, losing in the south-east England heat to Atul Kochhar.
Gillies lives in west London with his wife and three sons.