Sat Bains

Satwant Singh "Sat" Bains (born 28 February 1971) is an English chef best known for being chef proprietor of the two-Michelin star Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms in Nottingham, England. He won the Roux Scholarship in 1999, and worked in France, before returning to the UK and opening his own restaurant. Bains was also one of the winners on the BBC show Great British Menu in 2007.

Early life Satwant Bains was born on 28 February 1971 in Derby, England. His parents were Sikhs who had only recently migrated to the UK from India. Throughout his childhood, Bains's father owned a number of shops, He passed the course, earning a City & Guilds qualification. This inspired Bains to strive for something better and he sent off CVs to better-quality restaurants than the one he was working in. One of the chefs that sent him a rejection letter was John Burton Race. Raymond Blanc hired Bains as one of eighteen staff members for the opening of the first Le Petit Blanc in Oxford in 1996. Bains later recalled that within six months of opening, there were only ten staff members left.

Whilst in Nottingham in 1999, he applied for the Roux Scholarship. Between the regional and national round, the restaurant he was working at closed, leaving him unemployed. Bains won the competition, enabling him to travel to France to work at the three-Michelin-starred Le Jardin des Sens. While in the south of France, he also chose to visit El Bulli in Spain.

The restaurant's Michelin star rating was increased to two stars in 2011, which food critic Jay Rayner said was overdue and the length of time taken to give Bains his second star undermined Michelin's authority. The restaurant has also been awarded five rosettes by the AA.

During the summer of 2012, Bains took a turn in being head chef at a popup restaurant on top of the Southbank Centre in London. The popup, called The Cube, also featured other chefs such as Tom Kitchin and Daniel Clifford.

Television work After originally declining the chance, He has also made appearances on the BBC's Saturday Kitchen and UKTV's Market Kitchen.

Awards Restaurant named him the Chef's Chef of the Year in 2009. He was also named the Which? Good Food Guide Chef of the Year in 2011.

He has also been known to react badly to online criticism, such as TripAdvisor reviews, insulting customers on a personal level when they have been unhappy with his restaurant.