The Team...

To produce quality dishes and good individual customer service depends on having an able team who share the passion for providing the best.

Here are just some of the members of the staff team at Fennel who take on that task.

Lionel Strub

Chef /Proprietor

Opened the Bank Street Fig & Fennel delicatessen & Coffee Shop in Wetherby in 2001 and opened the first restaurant in 2004. Opened the new Fennel in Victoria Court in May 2008

Martin Freeman

Head Chef

Joined the team at Fennel in 2008

Thomas Tiffon

Restaurant Manager

Restaurant Manager since 2003

Tom Jones
Restaurant Manager. 
Joined the team in March 2010.

Heather Hooton

Deputy Manager

Joined the team in the new premises in 2008

Maureen Coultas

Daytime Manager

Joined us in the Bank Street delicatessen & coffee

shop in 2005

Kate Sharp
Cookery School and Outside Catering co-ordinator. 
Joined the team in November 2009.

Alison Strodder
Manager of the Fennel Delicatessen. 
Joined the team in August 2009.

Jonathan Strub

Pastry Chef/Desserts

Worked in the Bank Street kitchen from 2003.

Currently on a one year placement at

Gordon Ramsay's Restaurant, Maze, London

Wawmanee 'May' Harrison

Chef de Partie
Joined the team in 2008