Mark Greenaway


Mark Greenaway is an Edinburgh-based chef and restaurateur. He is chef and owner of Restaurant Mark Greenaway, voted one of the UK's Top 100 Restaurants in 2017, and holds three AA Rosettes. Greenaway represented Scotland on BBC2's Great British Menu in 2012 and 2013.

Career

Greenaway opened his restaurant on Picardy Place, Edinburgh, in 2011. It moved to North Castle Street in 2013. It was the only Scottish restaurant awarded three AA Rosettes, and has retained the rosettes every year since. It was added to Restaurant Magazines list of UK Top 100 Restaurants in 2014.
In April 2012 Greenaway represented Scotland on the BBC’s cookery program Great British Menu, and again in 2013 for the series Great British Menu Does Comic Relief. Later in 2013, Greenaway took part in a BBC2 documentary series called Teen Canteen, in which students from Linlithgow Academy in Scotland set out to start up a healthy take-away business. He has also made appearances on Saturday Kitchen on BBC1, Newsnight on BBC2 and Sunday Brunch on Channel 4. In 2014/15, Greenaway was a columnist for the Edinburgh Evening News with his weekly recipe printed every Friday.
Greenaway is known for his desserts.
He worked in Australia for five years, then at One Devonshire Gardens in Glasgow, at Kilcamb Lodge Hotel in Strontian and at the Dryburgh Abbey Hotel in the Scottish Borders. He has also presented classes at Braehead Cooking School and the Edinburgh New Town Cookery School, and gives cooking demonstrations at many food festivals such as Foodies, Gardening Scotland, Taste, BBC Good Food Show and The Scottish Chefs Conference.
2016 saw the launch of Greenaway's first cookbook, Perceptions – Recipes from Restaurant Mark Greenaway, which won Best Cookbook in the World in the Chef Category 2017 of the Gourmand World Book Awards.

Awards