The Relish blog

Our first supper club date has been confirmed as Friday 2nd September at 7.30pm

The menu will be showcasing the best of local to tie in with the launch of this year Norfolk Food Festival, Our most recent award of Best use of Local Produce on a menu in Norfolk, and celerating our 6th Birthday!

The price will be £35 per person which includes six dishes and six wine to compliment (if you do not wish for the wine the price will be £29 per person)

Jerome from Bijou Bottles will be joining us for the evening and we of course hope to have the technology in place so we can have a live link to the kitchen ( visual anyway!!)

The spaces will be limited to just 20 so if you are interested please book asap – if you miss this one we will be holding our supper club the first friday of every month thereafter

So book now to avoid disappointment

We are now in the process of refitting one of our dining rooms which is usually used for group bookings.

This lovely room is now being improved with a 42inch plasma television which can  be used to really personalise your booking.

For Fun

This dining room comfortably seats 18 people and is often used for celebrations so now with the screen set into the wall you can bring along a memory stick or a lap top and show photos or a presentation linked to your celebration. Perhaps a range of photos of the person celebrating their birthday or maybe of the happy couple throughout the years celebrating their anniversary.

For business

This room is great to hire out, its private and has its own decking area and front door. Presentations can be run through the television using your laptop so no need for projectors and screens. A range of services can be offered to include a breakfast package, formal lunch or light snacks to keep the attendees motivated. The room can be hired by the hour or booked out for half and full days. There is plenty of parking and we are just 8miles from the city so is very convenient and hassel free. The room can seat up to 30 people depending on the lay out required.

Sorry that we have not written a blog for a while….so whats been happening ?

Well as you can see from our homepage we have won the ‘Best us of Local Produce on a Menu in Norfolk’ this was a fantastic achievement to win this award last year but to win for the second year running we are absolutely thrilled. As our category winner we are invited to The Aylsham Show on Bank Holiday Monday to see if we are given the title of Champion Local Food Hero. The Aylsham Show is a fantastic traditional show and a lovely day out for the family, if you are going to visit please make sure you come and see us on our stand and to cheer us on at the Bidwells stand when the champion is announced.

So great feedback on our new style bar – quoted as “really sympathetically done, much more in keeping with the property matching the beautiful beams“  “Creates much more space giving a lovely light airy feel”

Lets face it , the huge bar was only for the benefit of the staff, somewhere to store stuff and a comfort to hide behind, now we can move around more freely hoping to give all our customers a better,more individual service. 

So what next, well we are starting up our food and wine evenings again, but going to reintroduce them on a Friday night as our ‘Supper Club’. These evenings were always popular when held before but the feedback was when they are held on a Sunday night people are always careful as it is a school night. So on the first friday of every month we will hold our new and improved Supper club, there will only be a maximum of 20 places per night and we will offer  prices with or without wine from as little as £15 per person (that one is without wine!!) Each Supper club customer will receive a loyality club which they can then use anytime after to attract exclusive discounts. If this interests you please drop us a line to see how bookings are going.

Finally we will be looking at our menu and incorporating some more traditional classic dishes to be available in the evening. Some customers have voiced how they love our homemade burgers  ‘traditional garnished’ with handcut chips and Jeremys delicious fresh Adnams beer battered fish, our homemade steak and Guiness pie and our aromatic Thai curries they often eat here at lunchtime so we are going to see where we can slot some of these into our evening menu, giving a wider choice from just £10, please keep an eye out for the launch of this menu and if you have a Relish favourites please lt us know – we do our best to listen to all our customers feedback.

Hopefully we wont leave our next blog so long.

Under pressure, due to our lack of tech knowledge we have now set up a facebook page, with alot of help from our oldest daughter – Thanks Kennedy.

Please take a look at Relish Restaurant, Bar & Deli and tell us what you think. Remember if you like it push the button to say you do.

We have also set ourselves up on trip advisor after it was pointed our some customers had already written reviews about their experience here at Relish – all our information should go live in around five days.

So todays blog is to confirm we are now up to date in networking so check us out on Twitter, Facebook and Tripadvisor aswell as keeping an eye on our website and blog to see what we are up to here at Relish.

So the weather is warm, well most of the time.

When the weather is lovely we remember holidays abroad.

Have you been know to pop down to the local markets and buy various cheeses, cured meats, sun dried tomatoes, olives, fresh bread and delicious oils and just sit back, relax and pick away for ages, sometimes even adding quite alot of wine???

Well here at Relish we have just received our new Deli fridge stocked full of some of the delicious things above, so if you fancy a beautiful platter of cheese and cured meats pop down and select from our cabinet, cant decide let us choose for you, afterall we have tasted them all to ensure they are all yummy and can advise on taste, style and of course who made tham…….for just £8.95

All of the produce in the cabinet can always be wrapped to take away which can make great hampers for pressies, great hampers day trips to the coast or perhaps you are lucky enough to be going to Blickling Hall or Thetford to watch a concert

So pop down and give it a go, mention you read about it on the blog please as we would love to know if you are reading it!!!

Going to take a photo of our new and improved deli/foodstore to add to this blog so watch this space..just got to remember where I put the memory stick, maybe I need a memory stick……………

Here at Relish we’re all set for the grand pizza oven re-opening, after watching the royal wedding and enjoying a fabulous hot Easter – all three of which herald  (Tarrar!)

The first firing of the pizza oven for our popular Sunday evenings is this Sunday 1^st May opening at 6pm. 

If you have never been to one of these before you’re missing a real treat. We move our kitchen outside and cook to order with a choice of toppings served on our patio area.

The laid-back atmosphere attracts all ages and is a completely different style to anything else seen here at Relish – find a table (join others if there is no room you would do it on holiday!) Order at the bar, grab a jug of Pimms or perhaps a bucket of beer and sit back and watch our chefs cook fresh for you in just minutes

We play all sorts of easy background music but if you fancy a busk for 10 minutes then give us a call to chat in advance, the only rules are people have to be able to chat above the music (no sound systems) and if Rachael presses her button you are off!

It’s a great chance to meet new people, social, relaxing and of course great food, one customer quotes ‘as good as the pizza I ate in Italy’

These evenings are very busy, so if it’s a nice warm summer evening  be sure to get here early or you may have to bring your own seat!

In season at the moment are salsify and rhubarb, parsnips and rock oysters, Chinese water deer, wild boar and lamb.

Look forward to seeing you Sunday

A short season but an exciting one.

Local aspargus is delicious but the season is very short. we have just received our first crop and have placed it straight onto our menu.

We are serving it at lunchtime and it can also be seen on our starter menu in the evenings. We dont think this local ingredeint should be messed around with too much so we are serving at the moment as ’First of the season local aspargus’ with ‘Lord of the Hundreds’ risotto and a poached Relish hen egg yolk……just £5.75 as a starter – delicious

Lamb is one of our favourites and delivered today is a rare breed local Norfolk Horn Lamb

Reared by Ash Lane Farm in Pulham the whole lamb has been delivered to us so we can butcher it ourselves to ensure we utilise every piece of the animal.

Completely traceable and delicious please look out for many dishes made with the lovely ingredient

Jeremy had plans for Lamb & Mint Meatballs with Alsace bacon aswell as traditional leg roasted on Sunday, roasted chump, stuffed belly with pine nuts and dates, a tagine with the shoulder to name a few……please phone to book a table and ask if lamb is on the menu that service if this takes your fancy

The Brancaster mussel season has finished, so if you are offered mussels now the chances are they are the rope grown ones and not the ones that Jeremy loves to cook here, the delicious natural mussels from Brancaster.

BUT dont dismay as every cloud has a silver lining……to replace mussels we are now getting Cromer crab from the shoreline. Jeremy is now deciding the many different ways to use this fantastic local ingredient.

So will he bake them, tian them or serve them traditionally dressed?

The only way to find out is to pop down to see us our first arrivals are Saturday 26th.

Talking of Saturday 26th did you know there is Earth Hour happening? yes at 8.30pm it has been suggested we all turn off our lights for the enviroment and recognise the effect things have.

We have decided to embrace the Earth Hour so from 8.30 dinner will be served using candlelight alone very romantic and very enviromentally friendly.

It’s not quite all change at Relish but we’ve been really busy in the bar area as some of you who have visited in the past week will have seen.

We have halved the length of the bar to give more space near the fire and have been able to incorporate more tables in this popular area.

The new bar itself has a fresh coat of cream paint, a new varnished bar top and a new carpet near the kitchen entrance.

Some of the tables have been moved around a little but the cosy warm atmosphere has not been changed in this work.

We did much of the work ourselves with some professional help from Tony and Alan who many of you may have met before drinking at the bar.

We even had two of our most loyal patrons turn up and help until very late on the Wednesday evening as we were up against the clock and they were worried if we didn’t open by Thursday they would get hungry!!! Thanks Judy and Ian

When removing some false plywood walls behind the bar we discovered a hidden door and a beautiful original beam and whilst moving a radiator we had a bit of a shock as some of the old concealed plumbing was on its last legs and could have failed at any moment and left the restaurant flooded and as for one of the waste pipes it was so bad we are considering framing it….don’t worry it was only carrying wash basin waste.

We’re delighted to say the alterations have gone down very well with our regular customers the only other consideration in the pipe line at the moment……well we can laugh about them now!!!! is we may put a small porthole window in the bar wall as it looks directly into the kitchen to the spot where Jeremy cooks, but Jeremy is still thinking about this!!

From April Jeremy hopes to be using Cromer Crabs..subject to weather, wild garlic and spring lamb from Ash Lane Farm, Pulham

Next time you’re in the area come and see the new bar for yourself.

With best wishes from Jeremy, Rachael and the rest of team Relish