Lorna McNee is a Scottish chef who was a winner of ''

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'' in 2019.

Early life

McNee was born in 1987 and raised in

Forres Forres (; ) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the County of Moray, Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin, Moray, Elgin. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several ...

, Scotland. She studied at

Moray College Moray College () is a further education college based in Elgin, in Moray, northeastern Scotland. It has 1,500 full-time students and 8,100 part-time students (based on 2009–2010 academic year). It employs approximately 370 staff (266 full-t ...

before spending two weeks at

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. She undertook work experience at Restaurant Andrew Fairlie at

Gleneagles Hotel Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland. It was commissioned by the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1924. The bandleader Henry Hall performed at the hotel before the Second World War during which it served as a military hos ...

at which she was the sous-chef. She won Game Chef of the Year in 2016 and National Scottish Chef of the Year in 2017. She became the head chef of Glasgow restaurant Cail Bruich in August 2020. It won a

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in January 2021 and was the first Michelin Star restaurant in Glasgow in 18 years.

References

External links

Lorna McNee – Great British Chefs

Lorna McNee – Game Chef of the Year 2016

Great British Menu Winner 2019

BBC Scotland
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