Taste Restaurant has been offering fine-dining experiences for many years in Leicester. The restaurant is run by the Hospitality and Catering students who are committed to providing every customer with a unique dining experience. Our ethos is to ensure our customers receive the highest level of service whilst enjoying the quality of our food that has been cooked using locally sourced ingredients where possible. We make our own bread, churn our own ice cream, hand-make our own chocolates, produce our own pasta, flambé dishes in the restaurant – in fact, the whole gamut. The Restaurant is also fully licensed.
Taste restaurant customers can follow our students on their journey into the catering industry and can watch and taste for themselves how their culinary and service skills develop throughout the year. As we are a training environment, we offer real value for money.
Whether you are looking for a simple lunch, afternoon tea, an impressive meeting venue, private dining venue or an exciting table d’hote dinner, Taste restaurant can offer you a new experience in dining.
The Taste team go above and beyond expectations to ensure you will want to come back time and time again. Taste has received some wonderful reviews, which you can read on trip advisor
Nicky Randall
Programme Area Manager
FAVOURITE FOOD
Prawns. I enjoy all food and love dining out.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I was a student at Leicester College hospitality department in 1983-1985. I trained to be a chef but decided to work in Front of House instead in different hotels.
Andrea Bridge
Restaurant Manager and Lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
Mexican – I love a plate of cheesy nachos with guacamole and sour cream.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I have served the queen twice when she was alive during her reign and Prince Phillip and Kate Middleton.
Paul Latimer
Program Lead Technical Level 2 and 3 Professional Cookery (Level 3 V.R.Q.)
FAVOURITE FOOD
Any meat-based products especially steak together with Asian influences and infusion.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I love a gadget especially if it saves time and produces a better product.
Dave Flannery
Program Lead
FAVOURITE FOOD
Italian cuisine, especially Carbonara.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I re-home ex racing greyhounds and enjoy many rounds of golf.
Daniel Murphy
Program Lead
FAVOURITE FOOD
Chocolate – I love all things chocolatey!
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I used to own a chocolate shop in partnership with an Olympian.
Mitch Field
Lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
Modern Indian cuisine.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I completed 5 years in a row a 100-mile canoe test over 4 days, I also have my coaching badges in kayaking.
Ian Bremner
Lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
Fresh fish, cooked simply with seasonal vegetables.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I once cycled from Leicester to Manchester and had lunch at one of the highest altitude cafés in Derbyshire.
Marc Johnston
Trainer Assessor/Part time lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
Chocolate mousse
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I sing in a band and have released 5 albums in my career (one of which got to number 20 in the American independent charts).
Chris Wozniakiewicz
Trainer Assessor for Taste restaurant
FAVOURITE FOOD
Likes a roast of the day with all the trimmings.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
Chris was a student at Leicester college from 1991 to 1993 and studied the BTEC National Diploma in Hospitality before moving to Denmark to further his career working in hospitality industry.
James Brooke
Chef Lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
Anything with lamb- smoked saddle dish previously made is at the top of the list currently. Nice rich reduction sauces from good stock.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I once ran for 15 hours on a treadmill non-stop.
Ian Sands
Part time Lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
I like to try everything, I don’t have a favourite.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I can shear sheep and I used to breed and show Jacob sheep.
I am also a qualified rugby coach. And used to teach the tigers academy players.
Chris Palmer
Lecturer
FAVOURITE FOOD
I love slow cooked meats, but my all-time comfort food is a lasagne.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I have done a full circle at Leicester college, being a student MANY YEARS ago, going into full time employment after qualifying, going back to Leicester college to teach. I Also own my own Deli in Loughborough.
James Kerrod
Trainer assessor in hospitality and catering
FAVOURITE FOOD
I enjoy most things, but I would have to say that focaccia is my favourite.
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOU
I am the youngest member of the team and was only a student at Leicester college a few years ago.
