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Ed Gilbert

Working seven days a week and baking at 3am - the relentless and stubborn man behind Cardiff's iconic tea room

It’s fair to say that David Le Masurier, the owner of Cardiff’s Pettigrew Tea Rooms and Pettigrew Bakeries, has had an incredibly busy ten years by anyone’s standards. Especially for someone who jokingly describes themselves as “an inherently lazy person.”

Over the last decade he’s established his tea room, set in the Grade II listed West Lodge of Cardiff’s Bute Park, as a destination for one of the city’s best afternoon teas. He’s also built one of the city’s most well-loved craft bakeries in Victoria Park, raising the bar for Cardiff’s baked goods offering when it opened back in 2016.

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