The French Connection: Laurent and Damien Create the Dishes at the Inn at Fossebridge

Old friends Damien Dupuis and Laurent Guillery are now working together to create the dishes for which the Inn at Fossebridge, has become renowned since being taken over three years ago.

Head chef Laurent has appointed old friend Damien as his deputy...both working with general manager Elizabeth Jenkins, a graduate of the famed Pru Leith cookery school and daughter of owner Robert Jenkins.

Frenchmen Laurent and Damien met when both worked for different hotels in nearby Bibury; then Laurent moved to the Inn at Fossebridge, near Cirencester, and Damien joined the kitchen team at Calcot Manor, near Tetbury.

Indeed Damien started as Commis Chef at Bibury...and 11 years later is the inn's Sous Chef. Besides working in Bibury and Tetbury, Damien was with the renowned Fishbox restaurant group where he developed a love of cooking fish from around the world.

Outside work he enjoys rugby, skiing, watching tv. "It is great to be working with Laurent", he said "and we have such a happy, hardworking team".

The Inn at Fossebridge, between Cirencester and Northleach, is a 300 years old former coaching inn, extensively refurbished, with eight bedrooms named after Cotswolds towns and villages, a cottage to sleep 10, and a luxury apartment in the South of France at Antibes.

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