Market House to offer restaurant, wine bar and meeting space in central Cambridge
A ‘home from home’ space offering a restaurant and wine bar alongside flexible meeting spaces it to open on the site of the former Don Pasquale eatery this month.
The grade II-listed building in Market Hill has been renamed Market House by its Cambridge resident owners Bill Brogan and Jinzhao Li.
Spread over five floors, Market House will boast an all-day cafe, a more formal restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner, an evening wine bar, a food lab and flexible meeting spaces.
The venue’s menu will reflect the cultural connections that Market House stems from, with modern British dishes sitting alongside Asian-influenced plates. Meanwhile on the drink front, there will be crafted wines, gins, beers, locally-roasted coffee and a diverse list of teas.
The owners say they have carefully designed the menu to allow hand-selected, predominantly local, ingredients to shine.
General manager Bill said: “Market House will offer a warm and welcoming space with good food and great wine at the heart of our offering. We want people to come and enjoy a nice time over a comforting meal. Consider us your home-from-home.
“Sustainability is a core Market House value. The team have worked hard to source food and drink from small, regional businesses where possible and only work with suppliers that can show their commitment to sustainability.”
Market House’s local suppliers include Stir Bakery, The Saffron Walden Ice Cream Company, Brew Project Coffee, JAITEA, T&J Wines, Fisher & Woods, Pinney’s of Orford, Stickleback Fish Company, Cambridge Wine Merchants, The Cambridge Cheese Company, and The Cambridge Juice Company.
Bill previously spent 17 years working at St John’s College, Cambridge, and worked in many aspects of hospitality from the Four Seasons Hotel Group to ICI and P&O.
He kept a Michelin Star at Le Talbooth in Essex, as the youngest chef to do so at the time, and also received a Catey award – the Oscar of the hospitality industry.
Jinzhao has worked in education and culture sectors in China and the UK for more than two decades, and for her Market House is about bringing people together.
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