Andy Lynam

The Climb

At Rudding Park, Andy Lynam’s early training set a working base in precision, control and consistency, the sort of grounding that tends to show up later in how a kitchen runs as much as in how a plate lands. That discipline carried into the next stage at Grantley Hall, where he worked as Sous Chef in 2024–2025 in a setting that demands attention to detail and steadiness under pressure. By 2025, that progression had placed him in the Head Chef role at Bar & Restaurant EightyEight, a move that followed from the same measured climb rather than a sudden change of direction.

Today

At Bar & Restaurant EightyEight, Andy Lynam leads with a balance of structure and room to move. The kitchen, in his own view, is one where playfulness and creativity can sit alongside quality and provenance, and that is the tension he appears to work from rather than against. The role puts him at the centre of the restaurant’s pace and standards, where the craft is not only in technical execution but in knowing how to hold restraint without flattening the food. Since 2025, that has been the shape of his work: using the discipline built earlier in his career to support a kitchen that still leaves space for invention.

In Their Words “EightyEight is such a special place to cook – it’s a space that allows for playfulness and creativity while respecting quality and provenance.” “I got my first real training as a young chef at Rudding Park in Yorkshire.”