The founding record · 2019—2025
D’Ambrosi
Fine Foods.
Founded by Andrew D’Ambrosi. Built around his cooking.
Stow-on-the-Wold · The Cotswolds
A chef-led idea.
Andrew D’Ambrosi founded D’Ambrosi Fine Foods and served as its executive chef from 2019 to 2025. He created the food concept: restaurant-quality dishes prepared for people to take home, finish simply and share generously.
The cooking brought together Andrew’s New York restaurant background, American food culture and European technique. Southern fried chicken, lobster rolls, slow-smoked meats, seasonal vegetables, house-made charcuterie and celebratory menus became part of the shop’s identity.
The beginning
Andrew D’Ambrosi founded the business with Jesse D’Ambrosi and developed the culinary concept for a chef-led food shop in the Cotswolds.
Opening in Stow
D’Ambrosi Fine Foods opened in Stow-on-the-Wold with Andrew as chef-patron and executive chef.
National recognition
The shop and Andrew’s cooking were featured by the Financial Times, Monocle, The Times, The Guardian, Tatler and other UK publications.
A completed chapter
Andrew left D’Ambrosi Fine Foods after six years. The business has continued independently; his career moved forward in London.
Contemporary record
Documented
at the time.
The story is recorded in independent coverage published while Andrew was leading the business.