Monkton Elm News, Events and Tips Blog

    Say ‘hello’ to our restaurant team. They’re a lovely, smiley group and they make some fantastic breakfasts, lunches, cakes and teas! Heading them up is Denis, who is originally from Ainay Le Chateau in France.

As part of our fundraising efforts for Garden Re-Leaf Day and Greenfingers, we are hosting a gardening quiz to test the knowledge of all the keen horticulturalists in the area.

GEMMA Staple from Spaxton has secured herself a place on the catering team in our new restaurant thanks to her mini cake mezze (October, 2015).

Enjoying a delicious cake is one of life’s little pleasures and we want to make sure everyone can enjoy an afternoon pick-me-up, which is why we are stocking a range of delicious, homemade gluten-free treats from some of our suppliers.

Our new restaurant was built with the help of businesses from the Somerset area so we have decided to stick to the theme of keeping it in the county with our stock too.

If you’re health-conscious and interested in learning more about the benefits of juicing, then come along to our free demo in our new restaurant on Tuesday, June 30 from 10am with Mark Summers from Robot Coupe, the juicer manufacturer.

Did you know that our new restaurant includes a large chargrill area for our chefs? You can watch as items are cooked to order right in the centre of our new ‘theatre’ hotplate. Choose from a selection of local meat produce from Pynes of Somerset, such as butterfly chicken breast, Peri-Peri chicken, pork chop with green peppercorn sauce, a selection of burgers, gammon steaks and speciality sausages. All of which are cooked freshly to order and available on any non-carvery days  (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11am-3.30pm and Thursday evenings from 4.30pm-7pm). If you have received a copy of our June E-News (sign up at http://tiny.cc/elmenews before June 20 th to get your copy) then there will be a voucher attached to come and see us on any Thursday evening in June and enjoy 2 chargrill main courses for £10. *Please note that all grill items are subject to availability.  

This month we have Mark Summers a representative from the juicing machine manufacturer ‘Robot Coupe’ coming in to give a free juicing demonstration at the juice bar in our new restaurant.  Mark will be teaching people the healthy benefits of juicing, which fruits and vegetables work best and what type of machine to use. The session starts at 10am and is on Tuesday 30 th June. If this proves to be popular then we have pencilled in a second date of the 14 th July for another demo. (Please keep an eye on the events page of our main website to see if this is confirmed.)