Top chef buys Exmoor pub
Mark Dobson, has left his job as executive chef at the exclusive Clivedon Hotel to buy the Mason's Arms pub on the edge of Exmoor in Devon with wife Sarah. The property, which features a 26-cover restaurant and a bar with a further 18 covers, is a traditional thatched inn with a history of providing good food. The pub sold for close to the asking price of £695,000. The agent was Colliers Robert Barry, acting for Edward and Antoinette van Vliet and their son Hugo.