VIEWERS will see a Huddersfield restaurant owner taking on the best this week.
Barrington Douglas is competing against a multiple Michelin star winner on Channel 4’s Iron Chef UK.
The owner of Discovery Bay Caribbean restaurant at Wood Street in Huddersfield is competing in the cook-off programme against Martin Blunos, who has won two Michelin stars each for his restaurants in Bristol and Bath.
Barrington was one of just 20 chefs chosen from 8,000 applicants to take part in the show.
He said: “I was interviewed over the telephone twice and then I was invited to an audition in Manchester where I cooked beef rings with Caribbean herbs and spices – which is on our menu at the restaurant.”
The judges were impressed with Barrington’s cooking and selected him to go to Glasgow to film a week of programmes, which will be broadcast this week.
Barrington and three other entrants took on the Iron Chef with two starters and two mains.
For each episode the contestants were given a secret ingredient and asked to come up with a recipe which was then judged.
Barrington had to come up with dishes featuring calf liver, beetroot, scampi and eggs during the four episodes, which will be shown at 12.40pm from today until Thursday.
He said: “It was an absolutely brilliant experience.
“The people I was cooking with had their own ideas and it was good to see what they were doing.”
Barrington is no stranger to TV screens, having featured in Gordon Ramsay’s F Word last year.
He also appeared in Channel 4’s Rhodes Across the Caribbean last year, touring the islands with celebrity chef Gary Rhodes.
