We do not serve pub food in the traditional sense of the word. It’s not us. We have baggage. Culinary baggage. There are a million and one other pubs that serve pub food.  We want to serve food that is healthy, fresh, full of flavours, generous in every sense of the word.

You will always find a leg of home-made  Prosciutto Crudo on the bar (yes we cure our own parma ham style ham but we are not allowed to call it parma ham because this is Berkhamsted not Parma).  You will always find freshly baked bread on the bread board, incredible Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) to dip the bread in.  That is a meal in itself.

We were born to feed.  We love cooking; we love eating; we love sharing.  We believe that cooking is a nurturing act, the ultimate gift for our community and friends.  When we prepare a dish, a bit of us goes out from the kitchen with that dish.

Our cuisine is a Mediterranean one.  We serve healthy food; we follow the seasons; we love specials: gazpacho in the summer, ribollita in the autumn. We think of our work in the kitchen as a celebration of nature’s gifts to us.

Food brings us together.  Food completes us.  Food is a celebration of life and no one gets old when celebrating around the dining table.

As a signature style we like to pick meats that are full of flavour and cook them slowly for about 24 hours at low temperature to bring out the flavours without destroying the texture of the meat. Pork cheeks, beef cheeks, pork shank, lamb shank, spare ribs.

Fish, on the other hand, is treated with the utmost respect and cooked gently to keep it moist, firm and just right. Don’t start us on the home-made pasta dishes.