When Michelin-starred chef, Michael North, bought the Nut Tree in Murcott, he wasn’t simply investing in a pub; he was, as he tells Julian Foster, coming home.
Twelve years ago, Michael North and his partner, Imogen, were visiting the picturesque Oxfordshire village of Murcott. Out for a walk, the couple, in the middle of one of those ‘what would we really like to be doing’ conversations, found themselves stood outside the Nut Tree pub, thatched, oak-beamed and marinaded in age-old traditions of hospitality. “Own that pub,” they both said, smiled and wandered on.
