Who is Marc Fosh, the British chef who put Mallorca on the Michelin map?

Marc Fosh was born on 14 August 1963 in Kent, England. Nothing in his British upbringing hinted that he would one day become the first chef from his country to win a star in the Michelin guide to Spain.

He trained in London kitchens, starting at The Greenhouse before moving on to the Michelin-starred Chelsea Room and the Capitol Hotel in Knightsbridge, where he was already working at seventeen. He rounded out his training with spells in France and around San Sebastián, in Spain's Basque Country.

Marc Fosh settled in Spain in 1991. His career reached a turning point in 2002: cooking at the Read's Hotel in Mallorca, he became the first British chef to receive a Michelin star on Spanish soil.

In 2009 he opened his own eponymous restaurant, Marc Fosh, on the ground floor of the Convent de la Missió hotel, a 17th-century seminary restored in the heart of Palma's old town, at Carrer de la Missió 7A. Five years later, in 2014, the restaurant itself won a Michelin star, which it has kept every year since.

His Mediterranean cooking draws on produce from his own vegetable garden, Fosh Farm, at Finca Son Mir. «Our Mediterranean culinary garden, surrounded by red earth and olive trees, grows unique, seasonally appropriate crops using organic and sustainable techniques», the chef told Euro Weekly News on 25 August 2025.

Marc Fosh has also published a cookbook, Modern Mediterranean: Sun-drenched recipes from Mallorca and beyond, released in 2019, and runs a second table, Sa Pleta, at the Pleta de Mar hotel in Capdepera, on Mallorca's east coast.

The Michelin Guide España 2026 confirms his Palma restaurant with a star, built around a set of menus, the Weekly Menu, Marc Lunch and Aromas del Mediterráneo, the last served only in the evening. Speaking to Spanish outlet Chefs(in) in February 2026, he described himself as «creative, calm and friendly», and summed up his cooking in one word: «tasty».

Photo credit: Marc Fosh photographed on 31 August 2016, by Pinkhair1970, CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, Wikimedia Commons.

This portrait was prepared with AI assistance, then cross-checked, verified and edited by our editorial team, who take full editorial responsibility for it. Facts verified on 18 August 2026.