Jocky Petrie (chef)

Petrie was a sous-chef to Gordon Ramsay on Hell's Kitchen in the show's seventeenth season and eighteenth season first broadcast in September 2017.

Petrie joined the Gordon Ramsay Group in 2015 in the specially created role of executive head of development. His role with Ramsay includes overseeing, creating and developing dishes for all of Ramsay's UK restaurants and working with Ramsay on his television shows.

In 2014-15 he completed a specially created year-long post as head of development at two Michelin Star and award-winning London restaurant The Ledbury, winner of Best UK restaurant three years in a row and UK's best restaurant Observer Food Monthly.

In 2001, Petrie joined The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire where he rose to head pastry chef role, during which time the restaurant achieved a third Michelin star and was ranked 1st on the list of The World's 50 Best Restaurants. In 2009, Petrie was appointed head of development of The Fat Duck Experimental Kitchen, later that year the restaurant was given a top score of ten out of ten in The Good Food Guide. His role also included development of dishes for all of Heston's restaurants and brands, including The Hinds Head and 2 Michelin star restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in central London. Petrie resigned from his post at The Fat Duck in 2013. In 2011/12 he was included among the chefs researching for a paper 'Bittersweet Symphony' by Heston Blumenthal and Charles Spence, professor of experimental psychology at Oxford University, exploring the manipulation of bitter and sweet tastes through the use of music.