Setting up The Pipe and Glass wasn’t easy. Inn at Harome. The future Mrs Mackenzie working alongside me, running front of our own place eventually, but it was hard In 2005 that changed. My friend Mark and were flowing, inevitably leading us into me setting up our own place. In an attempt don’t we all go for it together?’ Mark he really knows about the industry is We talked and drank, and drank, and soon our hazy business idea. Neither of them both were really keen to make it happen. them and, even though Mark and Ben a huge role in helping us achieve what At the time, I was head chef at The Star and then long-time girlfriend, Kate, was house. We’d always dreamt about having to ever imagine how it would happen. I were out for the night and the drinks a drunken conversation about Kate and to shut me up, Mark suggested, ‘Why has never been in the catering trade, all how to order a steak and a bottle of wine. Roped another good friend, Ben, into had the sort of money that we needed, but It wouldn’t have ever happened without were silent partners, they both played we are today.
