Chez Roux Restaurant

Dining at Inver Lodge Hotel

We are delighted to announce that the legendary Albert Roux will be taking over the kitchens at Inver Lodge.

Mr Roux explains that he will be providing, "Hearty country cooking using all the wonderful products from the sea, which is literally at the doorstep."

Albert Roux Biography

Albert Henri Roux was born on 8 October 1935 at Semur-en-Brionnais, in the region of Saone et Loire in France.

At the age of 14 he began his life-long passion with the culinary arts as he commenced his career as an apprentice patissier.

As a callow youth of 18 years, he came to the UK to spend time as a commis de cuisine in the old hierarchical environment within Nancy Astor's country home at Cliveden. Moving up the culinary ladder, he spent one year at the French Embassy in London, followed by his first tenure as a chef at the home of Sir Charles Clore in Belgravia. He was then called on to serve his Military Service in Algeria, during which time he was invited on occasion to cook for the Officers' Mess.

Upon leaving the Military, Albert took up the post of Sous Chef at the British Embassy in Paris, where he spent 2 years before leaving for the UK once again. He was employed as chef to Major Peter Cazelet at the family estate at Fairlawne, Tonbridge in Kent.

He stayed with the Cazelet family for eight happy years. It was the Cazelet family and many of their friends who encouraged and financially helped Albert to open his own restaurant Le Gavroche, which finally he did with his brother Michel in 1967.