Celebrity chef promises good value posh nosh | Braintree and Witham Times
Mark Baumann opens Bourgee – the first of 15 branded restaurants – on Eastern Esplanade on Monday morning. The first few people through the door of the former Tiffins restaurant, next to the Kursaal, will be treated to a free coffee ground from his own Bourgee branded beans. Mr Baumann and business partners James Welling, Anthony Tropeano, and his father Dominique Tropeano – who are both also directors of Colchester Zoo – had been talking for years about opening a restaurant. Their vision was for a place which offered the highest quality in fine dining, but was accessible to a...
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