ANDREW KOJIMA

​​Koj is behind the new Japanese restaurant and cocktail bar in Cheltenham that has already, within a year of opening, been reviewed by Jay Rayner, featured in the Good Food Guide, Harden’s and nominated as a finalist in the Best Restaurant category in the Taste of Gloucestershire Food & Farming Awards. After spending the first ten years of his career in finance, he reached the final of BBC’s MasterChef. He forged a new career as a private chef and cookery teacher during which time he cooked for HM The Queen, Eddie Redmayne, AP McCoy and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

He has now opened his first restaurant, called Koj, near the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. 3 Regent Street, Cheltenham GL50 1HE

www.kojcheltenham.co.uk