Thomasina Miers

May 12th 7pm Tickets £47.50 each including a 3 course dinner, Tequila tasting and cocktails

Join Thomasina at the HIX Oyster and Fish House for a demonstration followed a three course dinner of Mexican food. Each course will be matched with a tequila, cocktail or punch by Stuart Ekins and Nick Strangeway. Followed by a book signing.

Thomasina Miers was winner of BBC 2's MasterChef in 2005. She is a cook and food writer whose work has taken her around the world, from cheese-making and running market stalls in Ireland, being a committee member for Slow Food for four years in London, to opening a large restaurant and cocktail bar in Mexico City.In 2005, following her win, she spent 6 months cheffing at the Petersham Nurseries Café, cooking locally sourced, seasonal food with head chef Skye Gyngell. She went on to develop her writing career, writing food articles for Waitrose Food Illustrated, the Financial Times and has had a regular column in the Saturday Times since October 2006, in the Weekend section.

She co-edited Soup Kitchen, which was published by Harper Collins in 2005 and to date has raised nearly £100,000 for charity.Her second book, Cook, released in 2006 and her last, Wild Gourmets, was published 2007. She co-presented a Channel 4 television programme of the same name in 2007 and presented ‘A Cook’s Tour of Spain’ in early 2008. In August 2007 she jointly opened Wahaca, a restaurant cooking fresh food inspired by the food markets of Mexico, using free-range meat, sustainable fish and recycling everything down to its food waste.

She has cooked for events at Krug, the Borough Market and the Boqueria market in Barcelona, and is the new face of British Retail Markets (NABMA).She speaks Spanish, French and Portuguese and enjoys rifle shooting and dancing in her spare time. Her cooking style uses seasonal, locally sourced ingredients with inspirations from her travels abroad.