Our Garden Café will be open on Fridays and Saturdays from November 20th. Bookings are being taken from 6.30 until 8.15pm. and we can’t wait to share with you our Autumn menu, which will include heart warming dishes such as Roasted Tomato soup, slow cooked Beef and Apple Charlotte. These are the kind of home cooked dishes that are absent from many a restaurant menu these days but which reflect our interest in seasonality, local produce and ingredients from our Deli.
At the same time the Store will be open (except for the Deli counter) and Maria O’Reilly will be giving customers an opportunity to ‘try before you buy’ in the Off Licence. We have some cracking wines and our first tastings will concentrate on wines from £5.99…. mellow reds, crisp whites and incentives for buying a mixed case!
In the daytime we often have diners nipping out between courses to shop and try on jewellery! We are wondering whether this will happen in the evening… I can’t think of any other restaurant where you would have the chance to shop as well… will this prove to be a unique feature of Colston Bassett Store!!
Since the clocks went back at the end of October we have had to shorten our café daytime hours closing at 3.30pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as we did last year. With the nights drawing in rapidly, customers seem to prefer not to travel out to us once it gets dark. However, at present we stay open until 4.30pm on a Friday to kick start the weekend!
We are pleased again to be taking orders for Chris Hortor’s turkeys this Christmas. As many of you will know, we have been enjoying Chris’ birds for nearly twenty years and have found them to be succulent and full of flavour. They are also ethically reared in deep straw and, as you can see from the photo taken last week, are happy and shaping up nicely!
Phone us on 01949 81321 to place an order. Collection on Christmas Eve until 1.00pm from the Store. We can also provide free range Streaky Bacon and Chipolata Sausages from Redhill Farm as accompaniments.
We have finally got a source of honey to replace the honey from David MacClaren which has been so sadly missed. Our new supplier is Tom Ryder who has hives on his roof in the Park, Nottingham! The honey is dark, runny and simply fantastic. Bees are having a hard time, weakened by pesticides and disease and the cold Springs and wet Summers we have been experiencing have made this worse. We will enjoy Tom’s current season of honey while it lasts…
I am just including a shot of the giftware that is hitting the Store on a continuous basis as we motor up to Christmas. Lots of ideas for presents and stocking fillers for every age group! Don’t drag into Town with all the attendant parking problems… COME TO US!! You won’t be disappointed!
Jan Lindsay
