Adrian Richardson is an Australian chef and television presenter. Richardson has hosted a number of food shows and is most widely known for being the ''Bad Chef'' in Good Chef Bad Chef and appearing with chefs Manu Feildel,

Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan (born 12 February 1967) is an English-Australian chef and restaurateur. Mehigan was one of the original judges of the Network 10 series ''MasterChef Australia''. Career Chef Mehigan trained at The Connaught and Le Souffle in ...

and Miguel Maestre in

Boys Weekend ''Boys Weekend'' is an Australian cooking television series that originally aired in 2009 on Australia's Network Ten. The 13-part series was hosted by the four Australian-based chefs Gary Mehigan, Manu Feildel, Miguel Maestre and Adrian Rich ...

. He is owner and head chef at the La Luna restaurant in North Carlton and Bouvier Bar in Brunswick, Melbourne.

Career

Richardson started working in cafes to pay for pilot lessons. He obtained his pilots license when he was 16.

Chef

Richardson started in Melbourne at the Victoria Arts Centre and has worked at Le Restaurant at The Regent Hotel, and O’Connell's Hotel with

Greg Malouf Greg Malouf is an Australian chef of Lebanese descent, author and culinary consultant. He is known as a pioneer of modern Middle Eastern cuisine in Australia and for the influence that his work has had on Middle Eastern cuisine at large. Malou ...

Television

Books

* ''MEAT'', Hardcover (2008): * ''The Good Life'', Pan Macmillan, Hardcover (2011).

Personal life

Richardson has a family history of chefs. He went to school at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. His grandfather ran the Balzac restaurant in East Melbourne and he has uncles who were also chefs.

References

Living people Australian television chefs Australian restaurateurs Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-business-bio-stub