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Carl and Julie
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six years previously owning the Willows restaurant in Ashington.
Carl the chef proprietor first inspired by his Uncle Karl to become a chef, who was a chef at the luxurious hotel Sacher in Austria started his career at sixteen at the Lygon Arms Hotel in Broadway Worcestershire and stayed there for four and a half years. This is where he met Julie his wife, who can now be found running the dining room. Carl then went to London for more experience and was trained at the Savoy Hotel under the watchful eye of Anton Edelman. After eight months of long 14 hour days he moved to the Rib Room at the Hyatt Carlton Towers Hotel in Knightsbridge and then to their Michelin starred restaurant the Chelsea Room. In 1990 the opportunity came for them to move to Sussex and they purchased the Willows restaurant, a thirty cover grade two listed fifteenth century farm house, after six successful years they needed more challenges and larger premises and moved to the Chardonnay, where after a great deal of refurbishment they now run a ninety seater restaurant with private dining facilities.
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