OUR STORY
COMMUNITY SPIRIT
Cotswolds born and bred, local school friends, Toby Baggott and Sam Lawson-King opened their first hospitality venture, ‘The Scenic Supper’ in response to lockdown and on-going Covid restrictions in June 2020. This unique, socially distanced fine dining experience revolutionised the way customers could dine out at the time.
Roots + Seeds Kitchen Garden at Cirencester launched at Easter 2023 and was our first permanent site and the start of our evolution as a company to create a place to engage with both the environment and the community around us. Our Gloucester Food Dock site opened in July 2025 and Roots + Seeds Far Peak in March 2026.
We opened our sister venue, Cattivo Pizza, opposite our Old Kennels café in August 2024. Cattivo, meaning ‘Naughty Boys’ in Italian, is our fun, family-focused pizzeria embracing classic Neapolitan pizza-making to create simple, high quality pizza bases garnished with incredible ingredients that champion seasonality and provenance.
AWARDS
Since opening, Roots + Seeds has won ‘Café / Coffee Shop of the Year 2026’ in the SoGlos Lifestyle & Community Awards and was a finalist in the SoGlos Foodie Award 2025.
In 2024, it won the ‘Start-up of the Year’ Award at the Gloucestershire Foodie Awards and ‘Highly Commended’ award in the ‘Chef of the Year’ category for head chef, Sam Idoine, at the SoGlos Lifestyle Awards.
It was also awarded ‘Best Restaurant in the Cotswolds’ at the inaugural Slow Cotswolds Awards, chosen by Bradt travel guide publishers, and which also included Roots + Seeds in its ‘Slow Travel Guide to the Cotswolds’ guidebook.
