Guest Blog: Laoise Goes Michelin Star in her Quest for a Career in Cuisine
As we continue to publish guest blog posts this month we welcome former Big Bake winner Laoise Casey to the Bluebird Care Blog. Here she recounts her first experience of a professional kitchen and it’s a Michelin Star restaurant no less, in the heart of cuisine-capital, London.
You can follow Laoise Casey aka Cuisine Genie on her blog here. All photos courtesy of L’Autre Pied.A taste of reality in L’Autre Pied by Laoise Casey.

The menu combines bitter and sour flavours and wraps them up in combinations which explode in your mouth in sensational bursts. I was about to taste for myself. I didn’t realise just how much I was going to get to taste.
As the music is switched off, a shout of ‘First bread‘ signals the start of service. I felt tingles as I heard Andy call out the orders and the kitchen immediately increased its already quick pace. It’s like watching a carefully orchestrated, if crazy, routine where everyone knows their steps.