Cooked over fire,in the old maltings.

Seasonal British cooking from farms we can drive to, a short list of wines from small growers, and a table that’s yours for the evening.

Since 2019

We cook over ash and oak , bake the bread every morning , and write the menu around whatever the farms send that week.

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seats in the dining room, under the old malt floor
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stools at the kitchen counter, facing the fire
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farms and makers within twenty-five miles

On the menu this week

A few things from the fire

Sourdough and cultured butterBaked every morning with Ashby Mill flour5
Beetroot baked in the embersFenn Valley curd, hazelnut dukkah10
Grilled mackerelPickled cucumber, horseradish cream12
Venison haunchBlackberries, celeriac, juniper29
Dry-aged sirloin on the bone350g, dripping chips, peppercorn sauce34
Burnt honey tartCrème fraîche, bee pollen9

Flames leaping from a pan on a range in a dark kitchen

The fire

Ash and oak,lit at tenevery morning.

At the end of the counter is a wood-fired grill and a brick oven, built into the base of the old malting kiln. Isobel lights it before the bakers have finished, and by service it’s a bed of embers that does most of the cooking — beetroot buried in the ash, whole fish over the flames, the Sunday beef resting at its edge.

The wood is coppiced ash and oak from a charcoal co-operative twenty-two miles away. What’s left in the morning goes to the market garden that grows our vegetables.

A long candlelit table laid for a dinner party, with flowers down the middle

Private dining

The Kiln Room, for up to fourteen.

One long oak table under the brick cone of the old kiln, with its own door and its own server. Or take the counter, or the whole restaurant.

8 – 14 seated in the Kiln Room
60 seated for exclusive hire
£55 a head for the harvest feast

Coming up

Suppers, wine evenings and bread

Gift vouchers

Give someone a night off

Any amount from £25, or a Sunday lunch, a dinner for two or a place at a Sourdough Morning. Sent by email on the day you choose, or posted in a card.

Who we buy from

Hollins FarmBeef, pork and lamb, reared outdoorsAshby MillStoneground flour for the breadFenn Valley DairyMilk, cream, butter and curdCalder Market GardenVegetables, salad and herbsMillfield BreweryPale ale, brewed a street awayCoppice Charcoal Co-opAsh and oak for the fire, from managed woodlandOrchard RowApples, pears and dry ciderSouth-coast day boatsFish landed the morning before

Find us

Down the lane behind the station

The Old Maltings, Brewery Lane, Millfield, MF1 4RE. Six minutes’ walk from Millfield station; the Maltings Yard car park is opposite.

Day	Lunch	Dinner
Monday	Closed	Closed
Tuesday – Thursday	12 – 2:30pm	5:30 – 9:30pm
Friday – Saturday	12 – 2:30pm	5:30 – 10pm
Sunday	12 – 4:30pm	Closed

Tables for up to six, sixty days ahead

Come and sit by the fire.

Book online in a minute, or just walk in — the bar and half the counter are always kept for whoever comes through the door.

01632 960 418