Emily Roux and Diego Ferrari are the joint chef owners of Caractère.
They opened the Notting Hill restaurant last year - after almost two years of preparation - with a concept menu reflecting their French and Italian origins.

We caught up with them to talk about the influential figures that set them on the path to success, the implications of owning a restaurant as a married couple, and what it means to be the youngest chef in a family of gastronomes.

Both Diego and Emily started working in kitchens from a young age - though technically speaking only Diego was doing so in a professional capacity.

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