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The Chef at the Marquis at Alkham, could become the next British top chef according to a food writer in the The Telegraph's travel magazine 'Ultratravel'

Andrew Purvis, who was fresh back from reviewing Michelin-starred restaurants on the Riviera wrote: "I ate at The Marquis at Alkham, a converted pub with rooms near Dover, and found the cooking bore comparison with the best.

"Young chef Charlie Lakin is on fire with creative enthusiasm and a talent to watch in 2011. At 12, he was tending pigs back home in Yorkshire, which perhaps inspired his signature dish: a coin-thin disc of crisp pig's trotter with a fried quail's egg on top, served with cauliflower piccalilli. "It's bacon and eggs," he says, with a refreshing lack of pretension.

"His duo of Dexter beef - a nugget of fillet and a cube of meltingly slow-cooked "blade" - has me drooling now, while his banana soufflé was presented with a doll's-house juglet of toffee sauce and an unforgettable vintage rum."