James Martin made a great impact with his television debut in November ‘96 and has rarely been off screen since. He was a regular chef on Ready Steady Cook (BBC2), and went on to present BBC1’s hit series Saturday Kitchen for 10 years. In 2017 James launched new series’ on ITV ‘James Martin’s Saturday Morning’.

For three years James had his restaurant at The Talbot, in Malton, North Yorkshire, where he spent all of his childhood. The restaurant was placed in the Michelin Guide within a year of opening in 2012. James Martin Manchester opened in September 2013 and listed in The Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants 2015. James Martin Kitchen, opened in 2015 at Stansted Airport leading to further successful openings at Manchester Piccadilly station, Glasgow Airport and Debenhams Lakeside, with more to come from the JMK brand in the near future. In February 2017 James opened The Kitchen restaurant and cookery school at Chewton Glen in Hampshire.

James received The Craft Guild of Chefs Special Award 2013 for outstanding contribution to the industry, Fortnum & Mason Awards ‘TV Personality of the Year’ 2015, Good Housekeeping Food Awards 2016 ‘Favourite Celebrity Chef’, and was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers in 2016. His series Food Map of Britain won ‘Best Daytime and Early Peak programme’ at Royal Television Society in 2014, and Saturday Kitchen was TV Choice Awards Best Food Programme 2015, and Good Housekeeping Food Awards 2016 ‘Favourite Cookery Show’ with James as presenter. He was voted ‘Best British Food Personality 2018’ by readers of Great British Food Magazine.

James is passionate about celebrating British food, using the best ingredients possible to create simple, delicious recipes accessible to all. When not pursuing his love of food, James follows his other interests of bikes, planes and automobiles.