Ben Bayly's
As a young chef Ben won Commis Chef of the Year 1999, National Youth Skills 2000 and the Bill Gallagher scholarship at Johnson and Wales University of Culinary Arts in the USA.
Bayley then spent 9 years working in famed restaurants around the world Fenix in Melbourne, Le Crique in Las Vegas, The Square & the Ledbury in the U.K, Restaurant Jean-Paul Jeunet and Atelier de Joel Robuchon in France.
Returning to New Zealand Ben was the executive chef for 9 award winning years at The Grove Restaurant. Ben is currently Executive chef at Baduzzi and he recently co-founded The Grounds restaurant, Waitakeres, Auckland where he is Executive Chef alongside Mike Shatura.