MASTERCHEF quarter finalist Chris Hale is considering setting up a pop up restaurant following his success on the show.

The 29-year-old Blues fan who is originally from Carlisle didn't quite manage to sway the judges with an impressive cheese board he made on Friday's episode, which was the first quarter final of the series, but he still has an appetite for cooking.

Chris, who runs an altitude training company, has since had a couple of enquiries about him setting up a pop up restaurant in Wakefield where he lives with his fiancee Sophie Slack and their two children.

"You hire out a place - it could be a restaurant but doesn't have to be  - and you just put on a menu for a couple of nights and then you can move it around the country. It's something I'm really interested in doing," said Chris.

On Friday viewers saw Chris compete for a place in knock out week. He was up against five others and but was one of three hopefuls who didn't make it.

He said: "I'm pleased with how far I got. Obviously I'm disappointed to get knocked out. I thought I cooked pretty well but the competition is really, really tough so there's no shame in getting to the quarter final, that's for sure."

Restaurant critic Tracey MacLeod was judging the dishes along with hosts John Torode and Gregg Wallace. She gave contestants 90 minutes to make an exceptional dish centred on one ingredient - cheese.

Cheese-lover Chris had given himself loads to do as he created his own take on an Italian cheese board complete with a homemade ciabatta with blue cheese butter, fig stuffed with goats cheese, mozzarella croquettes with red pepper sauce, a spinach and pecorino frittata and homemade notta ricotta with black pepper crackers and red onion chutney.

Surprisingly he managed to finish with a couple of minutes to spare. 

"Tracey MacLeod didn't like my take on the brief. They all liked most the aspects but they all disagreed what they liked and disliked between them. That's the downside to doing five different elements: you can't please them all with all of them."

He went for the dish, which is one of his favourites, because he enjoys sharing plates as they bring people together. His wife Sophie is also allergic to cheese so it's not something he often gets to indulge at home.