New owner at Michelin-starred pub
A new chef patron is poised to continue Michael Bedford's legacy at the Trouble House it Tetbury, Cotswolds.
From August, Martin Caws and his wife Neringa will run the pub.
Martin has designed a seasonal menu using high-quality, local produce at the Wadworth's pub.
This is Martin's first solo venture and his CV includes head chef and one of the opening team at Village East, London; two years as head chef at one-Michelin-star restaurant Mirabelle; two years as sous-chef at The Oak Room for three-Michelin-star chef Marco Pierre White and a year working with Tom Aikens at two-Michelin-star Pied a Terre. Martin also spent time working at Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons and Le Petite Blanc in Oxford.
Caws said: "When I very first started out as a chef, I spent two and a half years with Mauro Bregoli at The Old Manor House in Romsey. Working alongside him as he shot and butchered his own game, and picked ingredients locally for that day's mushroom risotto, he quickly became someone who I admire enormously. Having since worked in some of the most revered restaurants across the country, with the world's finest ingredients at my fingertips, it is very satisfying to now have gone almost full-circle back towards the hunter-gatherer type approach my career originally began with.
"While I do hope to make my own stamp at The Trouble House, and breathe some new life into it after almost seven very successful years under Michael and Sarah, I am also very keen to maintain the Michelin Star quality that guests have come to expect there and hopefully finally achieve this accolade for myself."
