February Money Saver

January’s always a lean month for the ol’ budgets, and February isn’t normally a time of great abundance either.

To cheer things up, we’ve come up with a great money-saving offer: a two course lunch or dinner for just £11.50. Yes – two courses for less than £12!

There’s a choice of three really tasty dishes to start with and another three treats for the main course so there should be something for everyone.  And, of course, you can come along and take advantage of this as many times as you like, Monday-Thursday, lunch time or evening, throughout February.

The menu is on the web site here.

Solid Old Walls

As anyone who’s passed by recently might have noticed, the snow and ice brought us a Volvo ... colliding with the pub one morning!

Fortunately, no-one was hurt and the car hit the old part of the building – and that’s one very solid wall. Not a huge amount of damage was done and it’s now been temporarily patched-up, so we’re fully functioning again. (The rather chilly draught has been blocked up as well, so we’re back to being cosy too.)

It must be said it did make your landlord splutter a bit as he was eating breakfast!

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Phew!  Well, we've finally made it to getting on towards the middle of January and things are starting to return to normal.

It always seems to feel a bit of a marathon as we start with our first party on the 1st December, ending with a massive New Year's Day when, this year, we did 110 covers.  All the staff worked incredibly hard over  the entire  seasonal period - and hopefully kept a smile going throughout!

Our New Year's Eve party was a great success (there's some photographic proof below) and fully booked as ever.  We laid on a beautiful fillet steak stuffed with Barkham Blue and that went down a treat.  And then the landlord did his impersonation of a DJ ...  His 'latest tracks' included Abba's Dancing Queen and YMCA ... but he did get everyone up and dancing!

And now it's the New Year.  We've made a few changes to the main menu to keep things feeling fresh - and of course that's on top of the regularly changing specials board.  This year pheasants are in abundance and all the pheasant-related dishes we've put on have been selling like hotcakes!

We've also reinstated our Steak and Kidney puddings on Tuesays - great food for winter - and of course we're still doing our trips up to Smithfield to personally buy our beef and whatever else takes our fancy - all at 3 in the morning!

Sometime soon we hope to get to France to collect some more fresh King Scallops, but in the meantime we hope you all have had a good start to the New Year.

Best wishes for the coming year.



Peter and Helen