Prue Leith Chefs Academy, Centurion

The Prue Leith Group was established by Tiny Barnetson, Graham Ledger, Judy Dyason and Grant McLaghlan in 1996 to train up young chefs to the highest professional level. All four were either owner/operator or senior employees of boutique hotels scattered around the northern part of the country. These hotels included Mount Sheba Hotel, Hulala Lakeside Lodge, Glenshiel Country Lodge and the Impala Inn in Phalaborwa and the key link between them was that they all focused on quality food. This often meant that chefs from Europe had to be sourced and the difficulty with this was that one was never sure who would arrive until it was too late. Born from this frustration was the idea to create a chef training facility that ticked all the boxes, one box of which was a name that would be instantly and internationally recognized.
Since 1997, the Prue Leith Chefs Academy has trained world-class chefs who have worked in famous kitchens all around the world including Jamie Oliver's, the Roux brothers and Gordon Ramsay's. The superior standards of education are constantly monitored and improved where necessary to ensure that our students get the best possible chefs training available. This constant progression ensures that our graduates are highly sought after in both the South African and international market. In fact, we often see one of the best accolades one can get and that is to spot in the job classified sections, adverts for chefs entitled "Prue Leith graduates only".