COLLEGE students will test their cooking abilities under pressure working alongside a Michelin star chef today.

Six Swindon College hospitality and catering students will today be producing a seven-course meal for 44 guests.

They will be joined in the college’s training restaurant by Michelin starred chef and restaurateur Roger Jones who will help them.

The theme for the evening will be the Great British Menu and tickets have already sold out.

The menu for the night has been created by Mr Jones and college lecturer Paul Kelly. It will include smoked Somerset eel, wild bass, Welsh black beef and summer pudding. Alongside the kitchen apprentices, Level 2 multiskilled and Level 3 hospitality supervision students will look after guests in the Training Restaurant.

Hospitality apprentice Jaillin Argent, 16, who is a full time apprentice at Roger Jones’s restaurant, The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, will also work alongside the chef. Jaillin recently won the Jaquart Rising Stars Trophy for her cooking and wine-matching.

Mr Kelly said: “This theme night has been organised to give the hospitality and catering apprentices the experience of working under pressure and creating fine cuisines and is part of their apprenticeship programme.”