Paul Clerehugh is one of those chefs famous not just to the locals in the cheese shops, but in the restaurant world generally, partly as the Billet can stake a claim as the country’s first gastropub, besting the Eagle in Farringdon by two years.
It’s partly his name that has made a Shires legend of The Crooked Billet, though it probably helps that Kate Winslet had her first wedding here, George Harrison was a regular and Marco Pierre White swings by.
