LOCATION: UNITED KINGDOM

Multi Michelin Star award-winning chef who has also been dubbed "The Nation’s Favourite French Chef". 

Today Jean Christophe can be found on the TV screens as the new judge of MasterChef Australia 2024. As well as teaching at his cookery school.  

In 2005 Jean-Christophe Novelli opened the Novelli Academy which is based in his 14th-century home in Hertfordshire. Jean Christophe continues to host public, private and virtual masterclasses and corporate team-bonding events. During sessions in the Academy, Novelli promotes healthy cooking by replacing salt and sugar with his unique flavours and reducing the amount of saturated fats. 

In 2016 The Novelli Restaurant brand was created - Terrané by Jean-Christophe Novelli, Bistro '61 by Jean-Christophe Novelli and Rapido by JCN. 

Other restaurants created by Jean Christophe include The Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Liverpool.

The opening of his restaurant in the first Marriot hotel in Northern Ireland.

He opened further restaurants in London, France, and South Africa. Novelli also expanded into the gastro– pub market, his first being The White Horse in Harpenden. 

He won the first of four Michelin stars as Chef Patron at Gordleton Mill in Lymington, Hampshire before becoming head chef at the Four Seasons Hotel on Hyde Park corner London. In 1996 he founded his restaurant, Maison Novelli in London.  

Jean Christophe left school at 14 and worked in a bakery before, at the age of 20, becoming a personal chef to the Rothschild family. He then moved to Britain in 1983, working in several establishments including the Chewton Glen Hotel, Hampshire, later working and living with the legendary Keith Floyd running Maltster's Arms restaurant in Totnes, Devon.  

Jean-Christophe performs many demonstrations around Europe, Russia and many parts of the World. Hosting and masterclasses include Taste of Dubai and South Africa, passing on his passion for cooking and trying to teach people to cook more healthily using little saturated fats, low sugars, and no salt.