TV chef gives India a dream kitchen job

Published on Monday 4 February 2008 13:13

A YOUNG chef's televised Kitchen Nightmare has turned into a dream job after Gordon Ramsay offered her a full-time position at one of his London restaurants.

Trainee India Innes, 23, from Meadowbank, impressed the fiery chef when he met her while filming in Paris last year.

When the French restaurant she was working in closed, he offered her a work placement at his Boxwood Cafe.

She has now revealed that he has given her a full-time position.

India, who formerly worked at Shaw's Bistro, in Fishmarket Close, said it was a dream come true.

Talented chef India had been left jobless when the Piccolo Teatro, a vegetarian restaurant in Paris, closed after ignoring Ramsay's advice on an episode of the Kitchen Nightmares TV show.

The TV chef said that meeting India had been the highlight of filming there.

He said at the time: "There is no way that I am going to let her forget her dream. She has a great future ahead of her."