New owner - the Cock Inn manager Aaron Craze, with sous chef Luke Robinson, both graduates of chef Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Foundation. Picture: ROB SAMBROOK (52640-3)
A new Jamie Oliver restaurant venture based in Essex is up and running, and due to feature in a TV programme.
The Cock Inn, in Beazley End, near Braintree has been bought by the celebrity chef's charity, The Fifteen Foundation, which helps disadvantaged young people.
The charity ran a competion offering graduates from Fifteen, the cooking school featured in TV show Jamie's Kitchen, a chance to win their own restaurant. The whole project was filmed, and will become Jamie Oliver's latest television challenge - Cutting the Apron Strings - to be shown on Channel 4 at the end of January.
The winner of the project, 28-year-old Aaron Craze, beat 20 other Fifteen graduates.
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