A restaurant manager with an impressive track record of helping his employers achieve Michelin stars has been recruited by a multi-award winning country house hotel in Mid Wales.
Bruno Asselin, who is originally from Burgundy in France, has helped restaurants achieve 21 Michelin stars during his career and now hopes to pass on his experience to the team at Llangoed Hall at Llyswen, near Brecon.
Arriving in the UK in 1991, he worked with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat;’ Saisons for three years, Pied a Tere Restaurant inLondon for a total of nine years, Annapurna Hotel, Courchevelle and Neat Restaurant, Cannes, Pharmacy Restaurant, Nottinghill Gate, London, Lucknam Park Hotel and Spa, Bath and Pennyhill Park Hotel and Spa, Bagshot.
He was also runner up for the UK’s best sommelier in 1990 and ’91 for French wines and spirits and world wines and spirits respectively.
Excited by his new challenge, Mr Asselin is confident of achieving the goal set by managing director Calum Milne of making Llangoed Hall the best it can possibly be.
“The food being cooked here by head chef Nick Brodie is fantastic and the hall is like a museum with all its wonderful works of art,” he said. “I am very excited to be here.
“Having achieved two Michelin stars with three different chefs, I believe we are already close to a Michelin star. The partnership between the head chef and myself is something very special and I believe the possibilities are limitless.
“I have been lucky to work all my life with passionate and talented chefs and I can see the potential here.”
He plans to focus on staff training to hone the restaurant service and to upgrade crockery to give it a stylish, contemporary feel in keeping with the hotel.
Mr Milne said: “Bruno brings an immense wealth of experience working in two Michelin star establishments in France and the UK. It is a marriage of experience, with Nick in the kitchen producing award winning food and Bruno out front providing first class service in an unpretentious manner.
“His appointment will drive Llangoed Hall forward to where we want to be and hopefully raise standards nationally.”
Last year, the country house hotel achieved three AA rosettes, was named The Sunday Times Country House of the Year 2014-’15 and was listed twice in The Good Hotel Guide 2015 for Great Britain and Ireland’s top 10 Editor’s Choice country house and historic hotels.
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