Cooking for celebrities including Manchester City’s football team is all in a day’s work for Porthmadog chef Dylan Wyn Owens.

The 31-year-old is head chef of hospitality at the club’s Etihad Stadium where he leads a team of 130 chefs on match days. They produce 4,500 meals for each Premier League match and up 6,500 meals for Champions League matches.

Next week Dylan will take a break from there to make his debut for Wales at the IKA Culinary Olympics, the biggest and oldest international culinary art exhibition, in Stuttgart.

He has been selected for the Senior Culinary Team Wales which will join around 2,000 chefs and pastry chefs from more than 60 nations.

“It’s a great honour and privilege to be selected to represent my country,” said Dylan. “I’m excited because it’s a first for me, as I haven’t done a team competition before and never been to the Culinary Olympics. I think we have bonded well as a team and we are going there to win gold medals.”

The other squad members are Will Richards, Cambrian Training; Matthew Smith, freelance chef from Newtown; Mark Robertson from Coleg Cambria, Wrexham; Jay Humphris from Coleg y Cymoedd; and Zak Pegg from The Harbourmaster Hotel, Aberaeron.

The competition is divided into two elements – a Restaurant of Nations and chef’s edible buffet.

The team presents its buffet on 16 February and its Restaurant of Nations menu for 110 covers on 18 February.

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