Chef Clare Smyth, who catered Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 2018 wedding reception, has dismissed rumours that the menu included luxury wagyu beef burgers. In an interview with The Times, the three-Michelin-starred chef said it 'wouldn't take a lot to figure out that we probably didn’t cook burgers.'
Smyth, who runs the acclaimed London restaurant Core, revealed that the menu for the 200 guests at Frogmore House featured several signature dishes from her establishment, including a 'potato and roe' dish that takes 25 hours to prepare. Guests also enjoyed a 'roast chicken with a twist', a nod to the way Harry proposed to Meghan while they were roasting a chicken.
The chef, who trained under Gordon Ramsay, described running the kitchen on the day as 'like a Formula One pit lane' because everything had to run like clockwork. The wedding meal was accompanied by a multi-tiered cake made with 200 Amalfi lemons, 500 eggs, and elderflower cordial from the Queen's Sandringham estate.
Smyth appears in the second series of Meghan Markle's Netflix lifestyle show, 'With Love, Meghan', where she teaches the Duchess how to prepare a halibut dish. She defended the show against criticism, calling it 'quite sweet and nice' and 'easygoing and lighthearted'.
