Food
Sittings 12:00-14:30 Tuesday-Sat
12:00-15:00 Sunday
Starters and Light bites from £6
A filling Cheddar & Cider Welsh Rabbit (rarebit) & salad. £9
Main courses from £17 to £24
Puddings from £6
Reservations taken up to two months before your visit.
Sittings from 18:30-20:30 Tues-Sat
A set five-course menu that celebrates our bounteous walled garden and the wild land that surrounds it, priced at £50-55 per head.
We also offer a 3 course option from the set menu, which is priced at £40-45 per head.
All dietary requirements are tailored to upon booking our Full Feasts. We cater to Vegetarian & Vegan Diners, please inform us upon booking or prior to your visit.
We offer an informal, friendly style of service and are always happy to answer any detailed questions our guests may have. Our team relish understanding our food and drink offerings.
Tuesday-Thurs 11-12, 15-17
Friday-Sunday 10-12, 15-17
It's true. Our cakes are stuff of legend and we work with the best tea and coffee producers in Somerset.
Our walls drip with fruit and preservation of them leads to some fascinating jams for scones. We work with the very talented Heavenly Hedgerow Foragers too.
We will always try to serve you outside of lunch and dinner hours, no booking required.
Please note that we may not always be able to accommodate guests in the glasshouse for cake; however we have plenty of space available in our bar area or our beautiful garden tables.
Drink
Not everything contains alcohol though...
We offer a wide range of in house soft drinks, and some fascinating distilled non alcoholic cocktails, all in keeping with what's in season.
We don't source soft drinks from any multinational corporations.
Drinks have been made here for more than a decade. The dessert fruit and cider apple orchard in which we are located has long provided juice, scrumpy and venue for our annual Wassail celebration.
We have decided to carry on in timely fashion. We are re-working and re-imagining the existing traditions of drink making. Our bar is alive with experimentation. Embracing the limitations of nature has, for us, spurred unbounding creativity.
You can come and drink cocktails with us whenever you like. It brightens up a never drab garden.
We took the decision to work with wine makers who's first attention is to the quality of their wines and those that are considered pioneers of sustainable and environmental viticulture.
Our wines start at £22 per bottle.
Beer is in an exciting position again, isn't it? We keep an ever evolving range of bottled and canned beers all produced in the locale.
Our cider is made on site from 50 yards away, you can see the barn from the glasshouse. It's a standard setter but will give you wobbly legs.
Feast with us
Mondays: Closed
Tuesday to Thursday: Open all day from 11:00
Friday to Sunday: Open all day from 10:00
We take on-line reservations via ResDiary for groups of up to six.
Our maximum table size is ten seats.
Please call 01934 863 713 for groups above six. Calls taken 10-12:00 & 15-18:00.
We run a safe and secure pci compliant credit card reservation policy for evenings and weekends to avoid having to take deposits.
Reservations are recommended for all visits, even midweek, due to popularity.
More than a meal? We would love to celebrate with you. We have hosted events and celebrations of varying scale and to many tailored occasions.
Please email info@theethicurean.com for any wedding & event enquiries.
Please note that we can no longer allow dogs in the walled garden or restaurant. The Ethicurean team are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
The venue
Location
The Ethicurean Restaurant is tucked away in a Victorian walled garden with expansive views of the Mendip hills, often circled by wakes of buzzards.
01934 863 713 BS40 5SA
Situated 6 minutes via taxi from Bristol Airport.
30 minute drive from Bristol city centre.
There are some excellent places to stay within a few minutes of our venue.
Open: Tuesday-Thursday 11:00-23:00: Friday & Saturday 10:00-23:00: Sunday 10:00-17:00
The lanes are narrow, take care upon approach as many a deer have jumped through the hedges.
The Ethicurean Cook Book
“The Ethicurean Cookbook reflects the growing trend for artisan food and local produce and is truly an inspiration for how we should be sourcing our food and cooking at home over the next few decades.”
“120 unique and exciting recipes, presented season by season, reflect the best of ‘new British’. Most of the produce comes from within just metres of their kitchen.
The recipes are truly mouthwatering and visually stunning: Confit rabbit is paired with lovage breadcrumbs, Cured roe deer with wood sorrel, and foraged nettle soup with young Caerphilly cheese.
Gifts
Offer your friends or family an Ethicurean experience with our gift vouchers. Treat them to afternoon tea with a lazy amble around the stunning garden or a full five course evening dinner where they'll try the best of the seasons produce cooked with care and attention to flavour. An ideal gift that can be tailored to experience of your or their choosing.
Vouchers are available in intervals of £10.
They can be purchased via our online Gift Pro voucher page and emailed directly to you or your guest.
Recognition
Awards have never been our motivation but we gladly endorse and support any recognition given to British food and sustainable living
