Our Food
Our passion lies in finding quality ingredients and preparing, cooking and presenting them in a modern but unpretentious way.
Our menus have a spine of freshly prepared, classic British dishes complemented by more exotic influences from other parts of the world. They change slightly every week, with a more substantial change approximately every month. We upload them to our web site each day before 12 noon so that you may peruse them at your leisure to whet your appetite.
Each of our pubs offer a locally written ‘Gluten Free Menu’. Most of our sauces, gravies and dressings have been gluten free for many years. But we have been working with Coeliac UK in order to develop recipes for pastries, flapjacks, shortbreads and the like in order to offer more and more Gluten free dishes.
We adopted Coeliac UK’s training for all of our Managers and Head Chefs along with our already robust training in order to give our teams the knowledge and confidence in this area and we are thrilled to have been awarded Coeliac UK’s accreditation.
November 2021
We love this time of the year. Before our Festive Menus launch, each of our Chefs like to cook their creations to let the rest of the Crew have a try to see what our customers will experience. It means that they can recommend dishes and speak confidently about what each dish looks and tastes like - but it’s also a perfect excuse to get everyone together and have a lovely pub family meal before the madness of December descends!
Every summer we run a competition across all of our pubs to crown creators of the best dishes. Each pub enters a junior chef and front of house partnership to represent them in our company wide competition to develop the best starter, main and pudding.
At the grand finals in September all the dishes are judged against each other and the supreme champion is crowned. The winning team enjoy the glory, the admiration and undoubtedly the accusations of bias and double-dealing from all their peers and they also receive a trophy, a case or two of something quaffable to celebrate their success with the rest of their team and a great prize dining experience in somewhere very 'posh and foodie', along with all the other finalists.
As doting customers, we benefit from the fruits of their labours when the delicious dishes are added to their menus.
