Food at Chorleywood Beaumont Care Home
Our catering team at Chorleywood Beaumont consists of experienced chefs, ensuring people living at the home have the best nutritional and tasty meals which reflects the individual tastes and dietary needs. They also love creating cakes for birthdays and other treats for special occasions.
We have an array of delicious cakes and pastries served daily for all residents and visitors. Light snacks are offered through out the day and night to those people who love our food. Our menus are seasonal, ranging from a Cheese Ploughman's for the summer months and hearty chicken casserole for those colder winter evenings. Please see the example menu below.
Maria Mandru
Hello my name is Maria and I’m the Head Chef at Chorleywood Beaumont.
I really enjoy meeting and getting to know residents.
I love to cook and I have a real passion for cake baking
I have over 45 years’ experience in the Hospitality Sector and it is a joy to work with such a great team at Chorleywood Beaumont
Dietary requirements
For residents who have difficulties swallowing, we modify the menu of the day so that the dishes are more palatable for them. To support our chefs in producing these dishes, our hospitality team and our Chef Academy organise theory and practical workshops. The chefs work with the chef trainer to prepare tasty, modified meals safely and according to IDDSI frame work. This encourages residents to eat and enjoy their food. All our chefs have been trained in IDDSI food descriptors.
Attracting top chefs
Our chefs are recruited on the basis of an interview with the regional hospitality support team and the manager of the home. Selection also involves a practical element, where potential chefs are asked to cook for and meet a panel of people living in the home. Chefs take their job extremely seriously and the annual Barchester Chef Competition sees our chefs battle it out in regional heats and then at a national final for the accolade of 'Barchester's Chef of the Year'.
