Le Champignon Sauvage

Le Champignon Sauvage has been run by husband and wife, David and Helen Everitt-Matthias, since 1987. They had met at the Four Seasons Hotel in London and had decided to take on the Cheltenham restaurant as part of a three-year project, but were forced to stay due to high interest rates. Originally just the two of them, with David cooking and Helen running the front of house, the restaurant now has a staff of four.^[2] David remains in control, has never missed a service^[3] and closes the restaurant when he is unable to be there, for example, to appear on Saturday Kitchen.^[2]

When the recession hit, David looked for ways to reduce costs and including the use of "humbler" ingredients which includes offal and cheaper cuts of meat as well as food foraged from the Cotswolds countryside. Eighteen years after opening, the restaurant has expanded into the building next door, holding 40 seats instead of the original 28 and the walls are now clad in wood panelling.^[2]

The restaurant holds one Michelin star, has won the Observer Food Monthly award for outstanding contribution,^[2] and was rated the 13th best restaurant in the country in the 2017 Good Food Guide.^[4]

• "The recipe books". lechampignonsauvage.co.uk. Retrieved 18 September 2009.

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