It's The End Of The Year

Thank You
Well, another year draws to a close – and we’d just like to say thank you to all our customers for making 2011 very enjoyable (despite the world’s economic woes).  We hope your visits to The Maltsters have gone some way to making the year’s trials and tribulations more bearable for you!

Where’s My Card?!
In case you’re wondering, we’re not sending out Christmas cards this year – instead all the money we’d normally have spent has gone to Macmillan Cancer Support.  Taking this and all our other fund-raising events over the year together, we’ve raised over £1,400 for the charity in the last 12 months.  We reckon that’s pretty good going indeed and the generosity of everyone who’s supported us in this is much appreciated.  I guess the target for 2012 is to beat that ...

People Like Us!
Another highlight of the year has been our promotion from ‘lucky dip’ to ‘recommended’ in the Good Pub Guide, and it’s nice to see some great feedback coming our way from visitors writing reviews on Trip Advisor.   If you’re one of those very kind people who’ve contributed to these, we’ve very grateful.  Here are the links if you’d like to read further:

The Good Pub Guide

Trip Advisor

On  The Food Front
On the food front,  the departure of one of our team of two chefs, Paul, for pastures new necessarily made for some changes.  However, we’re very pleased to say Geoff (formerly of the Stag and Huntsman) has fitted in really well. Working closely with Karl, the last few months have seen the new team introduce some fresh treats on the menu as well as the old favourites, all of which have gone down very well with you, our customers.  Helped by a new local game supplier, we like to think our food has gone from strength to strength over the last 12 months. (And that’s not to mention those fresh French ingredients that we bring back from our trips over the ditch.)

And I think that’s about it for this last mailing of the year.  So, in lieu of a card – ‘Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year’ – and many thanks again for all your custom and support over the past year. Here’s to 2012.

See you soon.


Peter and Helen

French Success (Despite the costumes!)

For reasons that I don't quite understand, the males in the team here at the Maltsters don't frighten everyone away on our "French Nights".  I'm very pleased to be able to say that, instead, they're always a resounding success, and the latest one was no exception. (Perhaps it's the females ...)

We were booked solid again (62 covers) and the fresh French food we'd brought back from our last trip was very enthusiastically consumed ...

Here's to the next one!