[1] He then became a commis chef at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland where he stayed for over a year, and in 1992, he went to work at John Burton Race's two-Michelin-starred restaurant L'Ortolan in Reading, Berkshire.
[2] Burton Race sent him to train with Raymond Blanc at his two-Michelin-starred restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons in Oxfordshire and at Ledoyen in Paris.
[1][2] He later became the head chef at the Silk restaurant at the Courthouse Hotel Kempinski in Great Marlborough Street,[3][4] and then head chef at the Sharpham Park restaurant at Charlton House hotel in Somerset.
Giles Coren, restaurant critic of The Times, described him in 2005 as being "...a young chef of mercurial genius...".
[7] Carter featured on the BBC television programme Indian Food Made Easy,[5][8] and appeared in the BBC television series Great British Menu in 2008, where he lost to Chris Horridge, head chef at The Bath Priory hotel, in the South West region final.