Peter Gordon (chef)

Peter Gordon ONZM (born 1963) is a New Zealand chef, who has had restaurants in London, Auckland, New York, Istanbul and Wellington.

[1][2] After moving to Melbourne in 1981, completing a four-year cookery apprenticeship and working as a chef in various restaurants, his spirit of adventure and culinary curiosity led him to travel through Asia for a year from Indonesia through to India.

In 2001, he set up The Providores and Tapa Room Restaurant on Marylebone High Street with then life-partner Michael McGrath and two other partners.

In 2004, he set up the "dine by Peter Gordon" restaurant in the SKYCITY Grand Hotel in Auckland followed soon by the Bellota tapas bar in 2006.

In July 2013, dine by Peter Gordon was closed to make way for the fourth iteration of "The Sugar Club" in the SKYCITY Hotel in Auckland, at the top of the SKY Tower.

He has appeared on British television, on programmes such as Saturday Kitchen, Sunday Brunch and Nigel Slater and Jamie Oliver's Channel 4 food series, as well as being a guest judge on MasterChef New Zealand.

In the 2009 New Year Honours Gordon was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the food industry.

[18] Peter is also a patron of The New Zealand LAM Charitable Trust and The Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre, and an ambassador to KiwiHarvest.