Chantelle Nicholson to launch café, restaurant and wine bar championing her regenerative ethos 

Chantelle Nicholson will launch the Cordia Collective in spring 2025  bringing together a bakery, café, restaurant and wine bar.

 

The green-Michelin-starred chef patron of Apricity will bring her regenerative ethos to the project, which will launch on the 2,300-acre, Grade II-listed Borde Hill country estate in West Sussex.

 

 Nicholson has said the project will champion locally sourced, seasonal food celebrating the rich biodiversity and plant heritage of Borde Hill.

 

She will partner with Ruth Osborne, co-founder of London’s Wine Car Boot on the project. Osborne has recently returned from seven years in Stockholm, where she ran a project looking at local resilience, land equity, farming and how to create a new blueprint for future food systems, while also owning a restaurant geared towards circularity and reducing waste.

 

Nicholson said: “To have the opportunity to be in the heart of nature, and work in tandem with the terroir and seasons is a true realisation of a dream. I can’t wait to immerse myself in it all and, alongside Ruth, create a new, dynamic collection of nature with delicious food and drink, and warm hospitality.”

 

The bakery and garden café will open in spring next year, with the restaurant, wine bar and workshop spaces to follow in autumn 2025.

 

The café, Baked by Cordia, will be headed up by Janine Edwards who has previously worked at Little Bread Pedlar, Darby’s and most recently, London’s Toklas Bakery.

 

It will offer bead, pastries, cakes and more, as well as a daily-changing lunch menu.

 

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