We are a team built around providing the best guest experience calling on over 30 years of working in hospitality and catering. We care about food and drink but more importantly where it comes from and minimising our footprint on the planet.
WHO WE ARE
George and Sarah are the owners; George is the creative brain behind all the things you eat and Sarah looks after all things front of house. Their hospitality experience spans across most areas of the industry.
Cornwall Place Kitchen (or CPK for short) gave the original business, Inspires Dining, a home. What started as a side venture to their full time jobs teaching hospitality to students at college turned into a full time venture just off the High Street in Buckingham in Autumn 2020 (lockdown project!).
The CPK team is small but really cares about every customer having a good time, especially if you have four legs and are covered in fur.
OUR MISSION
To cook some really good food with a lot of love, in an environment where everyone feels welcome and leaves having the best customer experience whilst minimising the impact on the environment.
OUR VALUES
As a small business it is important to support other local small businesses, we buy as much as we can as local as we can. You will often see us in the butchers and in the market.
Minimising our footprint has been a day one concept, we use environmentally friendly cleaning products and packaging and reduce carbon miles where we can.
The health and wellbeing of the CPK team is above everything else the most important thing to us. Ensuring that staff have a genuine work life balance, decent training, openness to the goals of the business and all the coffee they could ever want to drink.
George Spires, Chef & Owner
George’s cooking career started (by accident) working at Whittlebury Hall, progressing to the Murray’s Fine Dining kitchen before moving to become Head Chef at MK College training restaurant. Along the way George has widened his skillset cooking alongside Michelin chefs.
Sarah King, Manager & Owner
Sarah’s first memory of the industry was setting tables and filling salt pots for her Nan, a cook when she was little. Since then her professional career has been serving and managing in most areas of hospitality, restaurants and events before taking on the role at MK College training restaurant.
The team at the MK Food and Leisure Awards, Best Coffee Business Cafe 2024
Cornwall Place Kitchen 