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The Interview: John Hoskins MW
07 Nov 2005
How did you come to own a hotel and three pubs? It was a family business, which I joined after university. I had no intention of going into the trade, but my uncle asked me to help out because he had...
View issue Harpers 4 November
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The Interview: Corrine Michot
31 Oct 2005
What made you choose The Connaught? I spent a few months as the head sommelier for Aurora, but I didn’t like the feeling of the City. They don’t want sommeliers, they just want to order Sancerre or Chablis and have a...
View issue Harpers, 28 October
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The Interview: Bill Baker
24 Oct 2005
Where did you start in the wine trade? Avery’s, after I came down from Cambridge. It was a long time ago – the days before the Australian wine industry had bounced back from the depths of liqueur Muscat and jug wines....
View issue Harpers, 21 October
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The Interview: Beppo Buchanan-Smith Co-owner, Isle of Eriska Hotel, Spa and Island, Ledaig, Scotland
13 Oct 2005
How did your family come to own not just a hotel but also an island? My parents purchased the island in 1973 with the intention of creating a hotel out of the main house. Initially, the idea was to run it...
View issue Harpers, 14 October 2005
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Dale Dewsbury, Manager, Andrew Fairlie at The Gleneagles Hotel
06 Oct 2005
What is your wine-buying strategy? ...
View issue Harpers, 30 September 2005
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The Interview: Dale Dewsbury
30 Sep 2005
What is your wine-buying strategy? We have a very unusual business situation. Although we are completely independent, we lease the restaurant space from The Gleneagles Hotel and buy the majority of our wines through its main cellar. We are only charged...
View issue Harpers, 30 September 2005
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The Interview: John Burton-Race
23 Sep 2005
How did television’s latest celebrity chef end up in Dartmouth? Back from France, we were originally looking for a small country-house hotel. Then we heard that the Horn of Plenty, a place of pilgrimage once owned by the legendary Sonia Stevenson,...
View issue Harpers, 23 September 2005
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The Interview: Dawn Davis
16 Sep 2005
Have you always wanted to work in a restaurant? Not really. My big plan was to become an actress and join RADA, but I didn’t really like the people at the university drama group – they were too precious. So I...
View issue Harpers, 16 September 2005
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Constellation’s shooting star
09 Sep 2005
Was there ever anybody better at selling himself than Chris Carson? If ours had been a job interview I’d have given him the job. In fact, I’d probably have given him my job. It says a lot for the resilience of...
View issue Harpers, 9 September 2005
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The Interview: Stuart Elmes, Assistant general manager, Pacific Oriental, London
08 Sep 2005
Is the City clientele different from that of other parts of London? The City clientele is very civilised, although in some ways it is a very clinical audience. They don’t really want us to talk that much. It’s really about providing...
View issue Harpers, 9 September 2005
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