Gareth Baty is a self-taught chef from Cumbria and the winner of MasterChef: The Professionals 2026. He started out hosting supper clubs in East London, cooked soul food in Harlem, worked a farm kitchen in the Lake District, and built his own kitchen from scratch in a Newcastle brewery, earning coverage from The Guardian along the way.
He is a storyteller as much as a chef. Whether he’s cooking dishes drawn from his own life or building something entirely new, the food is always personal, and always from the heart.