Do you cook a lot yourself? What is your failsafe dish?

Quite a bit, I love cooking with my son at home. My failsafe dish would be a good ragu of veal and beef or lamb, served with pasta, either pappardelle or penne.

Where do you like to eat out? How often?

I love Thai so a trip into Cirencester is always good, if I can get a day off. I don’t eat out very often so it is a pleasure when I get to go out with the wife.

What do you always hope to find on a menu? For starter? Main course? Dessert?

Starter has to be a soup — it lends itself to so many flavours and influences.

Main course has to be beef. But I have to say that due to our fab Fairford beef! A dessert for me has to contain lemon or chocolate. Lemon is good for the palate after a great meal. And chocolate... I just love it.

Which foods did you hate as a child? Do you eat them now?

Fish, which is odd when you look back on it. I love cooking it now. We have some great fish dishes on the menu.

What is your favourite drink? Alcoholic and non-alcoholic.

Alcoholic, I like a beer, a good Arkells 3B. Non-alcoholic, what is that?

Marmite: yes or no? Marmite is a definite no.

What is your guilty pleasure when it comes to food... something you know you shouldn’t eat, but do anyway?

Cheese, it is always there and can be in a dish or just a slice. I think I am addicted.

You are on your own at home watching a film. What is your snack of choice?

Ice cream.

You’re eating a bacon sandwich...ketchup, brown sauce or nothing at all?

I like my bacon sarnie to have more ketchup than bacon, but here at The Bull, you can’t beat bacon with our own homemade brown sauce.