The Mark Hix recipe for food business success

He’s an obscenely talented chef that unusually also has a great head for business. Roz Crowley finds Mark Hix has lots of advice for people dreaming of opening a food business.

It’s festival season and throughout Europe, top restaurateurs are swapping state-of-the-art kitchens for marquees to serve music lovers in bikini tops or Wellington boots, depending on their luck.

This year, the UK’s Wilderness festival will be held on August 6-9 on the farm of former Blur bassist, songwriter and acclaimed cheese-maker Alex James in Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire. Restaurateur Mark Hix will be in the thick of it.