Memories of the Blackforest

Gunther came to the UK in the mid 70s. A German national, he had trained as a chef in Germany, Switzerland and France before coming to the UK.
Working as a chef at various Newcastle based hotels, he soon became dissatisfied with the standard of cooking and moved into hospitality management.
"Newcastle was a culinary desert in those days", he says.

Working for Grand Metropolitan in a number of units in the North East, lecturing cooking at Ashington College, running the multi-award winning Black Gate restaurant in Newcastle for many years, he eventually moved on to Newcastle City Council as the Hospitality Manager looking after which was then a flagship operation.

25 years on, Gunther now operates Memories of the Black Forest, featuring food from Germany and the Distinctly different Ricordi d Italy....all from a refurbished horse-box .
We cover many public events,private & corporate and offer great flexibility. Choose from either Italian pasta dishes from Calabria or our popular German offering.

Various clients in buisness parks around the north east,richmond market, various food festival trough out the north east, bowes museum,porsche club of great britain,Bella auto and many more .
Private weddings and party's