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10% Off Food & Drink
Believe in something even if it means sacrificing.
The Bridge Inn is introducing a series of discounts for people who make personal sacrifices for the greater good.
Nike Discount
We are delighted with Nike’s decision to choose Colin Kaepernick as the face of their latest Just Do It campaign. If you don’t know the back story sorry but a quick google will tell you all you need to know and Trump is not happy.
If you haven’t joined the Trump inspired Nike burning and are wearing Nike with pride we will give you 10% off your total bill.
This is not fake news!
Trump and other destroyers of democracy be damned, we support Nike and people like Colin Kaepernick who believe in something and are will willing to sacrifice for their beliefs. So simply and tell the team “Nike, Just Do It to Trump” to have your discount applied to your bill. This discount is available until further notice and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers.
If you haven’t seen the advert .. we suggest you have a watch https://youtu.be/Fq2CvmgoO7I
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Sheffield Telegraph review of The Bridge Inn and its Humble Cauliflower transformed.
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Snow, What Snow?
So this is what all the fuss was about?
Having listened to the weather reports and the hype from the media I thought we were on the verge of a new ice age.
Cleary not - just more hyperbole.
Perhaps it's Russia interfering as they sensed the British people needed a few duvet days and that Supermarket's needed a month end cash flow boost.
Either way whoever edited these news stories are obviously from the South where 1mm of Snow is the end of the world.
The roads are clear - even the fields have only got a dusting of snow.
Much ado about nothing!
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Sunday Roasts
We are delighted to have introduced our new Sunday Menu which for the first time includes Sunday Roasts.
Sunday’s are probably the one day of the week when families and friends will sit down and eat together so it’s only fitting that we offer a family style Roast.
In keeping with our “social eating & drinking” philosophy we serve our roasts as you would at home - not individually plated but rather - all the elements of the roast lunch - the meat or meats, the Yorkshire’s, Roasties, Vegetables, Gravy etc placed in the centre of the table.
Home from home Sunday Roast without the prep, cooking and washing up that takes hours.
What could be better? Sunday Roasts plus our full menu so your group can mix and match that’s what could be better.
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The Bridge Inn Wins Award!
*** The Bridge Inn has Won an Award!!! ***
LUX Food & Wine Awards 2017 Winner - Best Tapas Style Cuisine
We have won an award from LUX in the International Food & Drink Awards 2107. Winners come from as far and wide as Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh, Brescia, Mykonos and Boca Raton.
What a nice surprise for our brilliant team. Thank you to everyone of you past and present that have contributed over the past 12 months.
We didn’t enter - we were just notified of our shortlisting and then that we had won. Lux state that they meticulously evaluate a businesses’ performance over the past 12 months to ensure that only the most deserving parties receive one of their distinguished awards.
Absolutely thrilled would be an under statement and we would all like to offer a huge thank you to all of our guests who have supported us in 2017!
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Oh Dickens! It’s Christmas @ Chatsworth House
Between the 11th November & 7th January Chatsworth House will be dressing up - this year the theme is Dicken’s.
Once you have booked your timed tickets and want to ensure you can get a bite to eat or a drink before or after The Bridge is only a couple of miles away.
You can book your tickets via the Chatsworth website
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Darren Goodwin Joins
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Darren Goodwin; who has done an amazing job over the last 10 years at Loosehill House; has now joined us.
Darren has joined our Exec Team to evolve and develop the food and chefs at both The Bridge Inn, Calver and Devonshire Arms, Baslow.
He has had a hectic first week but he has definitely already got his feet well and truly under the table.
Laura Bennett, Ben Naylor, Samantha and I are all looking forward to working with Darren.
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Bottomless Brunch
It’s definitely arrived - what a great first Sunday of Bottomless Brunch last weekend. Lovely atmosphere, great feedback and brilliant live music from the guys from Groovy Cats.
What better way to spend a Sunday? In a pub over a leisurely Brunch - Roaring Fires - BOTTOMLESS Drinks - Bottomless Buffet - Selection of hot Brunch dishes - Live Music - Newspapers - does it get any better?
It’s definitely something different for the area and to celebrate the launch we are now offering 50% discounts when people book online via the Bottomless Brunch page for the next couple of weeks.
Served 11am until 4pm we look forward to guests trying it out and telling us what they think.
Only wish I was sitting eating, relaxing and socialising rather than working it myself....
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Special from Ben Naylor - Slow Cooked Oxtail with Creamy Chive Mash, Charred Pear & White Peach.
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Sticky Beak Food Blogger Reviews The Bridge Inn
“It goes without saying that Hot Wings are making their way to this talented, passionate team. The Bridge Inn is a doddle to find as it is on the main road, and there is plenty of parking too :)
If you haven’t been before, I can heartily recommend it to you.”
Read the full review @
http://www.thestickybeak.co.uk/reviewview.asp?reviewid=630
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Bottomless Brunch available @ The Bridge Inn from 15th October
When we pondered…. what is the ideal way to spend a Sunday? We settled on the following wish list: - Brunch - leisurely & with a variety of hot and cold items on offer - Newspapers - a good range for those that haven't picked up their own - Open Fire - warming and comforting over the winter months - A snifter or two - something a little extravagant like Bloody Mary - Live Music - there but adding to the ambiance rather than dominating - In a Pub
Sunday's are made for Brunch and in Las Vegas & Dubai they have been doing Brunch in style for years. Every expat in Dubai can tell you where the Brunch of the moment is. We are in Derbyshire and we don’t know of anywhere offering what we pictured so we have created our own. From the 15th October between 11am and 4pm we are offering a Bottomless Brunch.
Bottomless because the Buffet and Drinks are BOTTOMLESS
There are two options - Alcoholic or Non Alcoholic - Alcoholic (£35 per person) includes free Prosecco, Bloody Mary’s, Mimosa’s & Filter Coffee for the 1.5 hours of your booking. - Non Alcoholic (£25 per person) includes free Juices and Filter Coffee on the same basis. The Buffet table will include Fruit, Parties, Salads, Granola, Yoghurt, Cheese and Cured Meats and its Bottomless. The price also includes two hot dishes per person so expect a veritable feast. What better way to spend an hour and a half on a Sunday - the price is set, the music booked the courtesy of Oliver from the Groovy Cats and we are good to go.
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Autumn is here and the colours are stunning - catch them before they are gone!
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Spanish Ham - Pata Negra Iberico de Bellota - The Finest Ham In The World!
One of the revelations of the recent Food & Wine evening was the Iberia de Bellota served with Manzanilla Sherry. Even some regular guests had never before tried the Iberico which has featured on the menu since opening.
Rich, dark red and elegantly marbled, Spanish ham or as they call it Jamon Iberico, is one the worlds finest treats and is certainly high on our list of top foods. It is the finest cured ham in the world, bar none.
Jamon Iberico, or Pata Negra (“black foot”) is made from the black – hooved Iberian pigs. This ancient breed has been part of the Spanish culture for ever and the cured hams produced from it are so revered that any self respecting restaurant in Spain has an expert carving off paper thin slices almost full time, such is the demand.
Jamon Iberico has a PDO (Protection Designation of Origin) so just like Champagne and Parmesan, it can only be produced in specific locations and under highly controlled conditions.
There are three classifications based on the purity of the breed used, the diet the Pata Negra enjoy and the conditions under which they are raised:
Jamon Iberico de Bellota Jamon Iberico de Recebo Jamon Iberico de Campo The finest is Jamon Iberico de Bellota – the one we serve – which is produced using only pigs that are 75% Iberian and roam free on the oak studded grasslands of southern Spain. They eat only wild food, mostly acorns (bellota) which gives the meat it’s unique nutty flavour. A leg of Bellota takes a minimum of 600 days to produce a fact understandably reflected in the price. It can exceed £100 per kilo in Spain and claims a place in the top 10 most expensive food ingredients in the world.
Cut as thinly as possible – ideally razor thin – it literally melts in the mouth like a piece of fine chocolate. It is nutty, salty and meaty – a joy to behold – and the perfect appetiser which traditionally in Spain is enjoyed with a dry Manzanilla Sherry.
So if you like cured ham of any type, try it, even the best Parma Ham’s cannot hold a candle to this delicious delicacy.
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Foie Gras Less Important Than Our Community!
As you are no doubt aware, The Bridge Inn has faced an assault by so called Animal Activists since the 16th March because of one Foie Gras Pincho on our menu.
The Bridge Inn has received over 200 fake 1* reviews on Facebook, the owners, team and supportive guests have been abused online and 4 protests have taken place. Despite the fact that we have never initiated contact with any journalist our little pub has found it’s way into the Times, The Telegraph, bizarrely even into coverage by Fox News in the U.S. and most recently even The Daily Mail. Samantha has been likened to London Terrorists and told by the protestors that they hope she dies of cancer. My Sister in Law has been abused often waking to up to 80 disparaging and abusive messages on her Facebook while my brother has had water poured over his head while sweeping away their pavement Graffiti. Our guests have been trolled online, pictures of their Children shared on activist web sites and one called a murderer – with no protection available under the law
The old saying goes… “there is no such thing as bad publicity” and yes sales have risen especially on the days the protesters have shown up at our door and Foie Gras sales have risen by 134% but the price for the people we care about isn’t worth our principals, any amount of media coverage or sales.
The most recent protest on Sunday just gone, proved to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. The Sales growth, media coverage and our determination clearly only served to make the protestors step over the line. Peaceful protest what a joke! Always video cameras on, they abused and pushed every boundary further and further and trawled new depths in their struggle for their victory.
Finally just before the protestors set off home, one regular guest arrived inside the pub visibly shaken and shaking after enduring a torrent of intimidating abuse by a group of these so called animal welfare activists surrounding him and shouting in his face. The assault was sufficiently traumatic for him to call the police.
Our community comes first for us and we cannot allow such abuse to continue. Guests visiting The Bridge Inn come to escape the madness and should not be faced with a different form of lunacy outside the door of their favourite local.
We made the gut wrenching decision to set aside our principals because we care for our community of guests, team and family. They can have their pyrrhic victory. Foie Gras will not be on the new menu which will be launched towards the end of the month. We just realised that we cannot and will not put our principals before our guests experience at The Bridge and while I may be able to control the temptation to react, I do worry that their escalating attempts to intimidate and abuse will lead to the flash point they and their video cameras crave. Someone will get hurt and someone will be arrested and it will not be one of these practiced “peaceful” protestors.
Our guests like us feel that it is it is a very sad state of affairs that the law does nothing to support a sympathetic but stretched Police force in dealing with these bullies. The government should do more to protect law abiding citizens going about their own business from intimidation and abuse.
We remain of the opinion that the activists dated views of Foie Gras production are wrong and it became clear on Sunday that they didn’t even know that the single caging depicted in their placards were outlawed across Europe in 2012.
There are many bigger issues in this world that their passion could be so much better directed towards and their methods do not encourage sensible well mannered intelligent people to join their crusade.
What the activists will perceive as a victory, where the end justified the means, has in fact done more damage to their cause than they can imagine. There are many issues in animal welfare which our guests identify with and would support but supporting the Animal Rights movement now, will be as likely as a social liberal endorsing a coalition with the recidivist DUP in Ireland.
The activists will crow victory, so be it. Our family, team & guests come first and we can only hope these despicable people take a long hard look at the press coverage and opinions they have heard from our guests and think twice before adopting these deplorable bullying tactics with some other poor unsuspecting community. Their methods are disgusting and we have to accept that we cannot win unless we are willing to stoop to their depths. This is something we are not prepared to do.
So please note “activists” the Foie Gras is coming off the menu, you have your pyrrhic victory, so now leave our community alone. Enough is enough!
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