The pub is the historic White Horse in Churton, near Chester, which Gary bought last year after a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign. The venue is currently mid-refurbishment - and the chef has been very hands-on since it started back in August 2022.
It’s been pretty overwhelming, and for lots of reasons. Firstly, the speed in which it all happened. Launching a crowdfunding drive to fund it, he raised the target of £220,000 in just 24 hours, £27,000 of which landed in the first five minutes. So, with that in mind, the pub has been brought together with a host of reclaimed materials, begged, borrowed, though hopefully not stolen. Like a pair of chandeliers second hand from Widnes, while the wood for the bar was bought from a lady in Southport off Facebook Marketplace.
“I was a bit nervous, because I knew the community had tried to develop it themselves, and I was worried that there would be a group of people who didn’t want me to do it. I couldn’t have been more wrong.” He said: "These people have loads of other stuff on. But they just kept calling their mates to help out. They don’t want payment, not a penny, I’ve offered. I’ve offered them free meals at the other restaurants. Paul, after going to Sticky Walnut, sent me a picture a few days later to say he’d had a great dinner. I asked him why he didn’t tell me he was going, and he said ‘because you’d have tried to pay for it’.
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