Calling Cafe, Pub and Restaurant Owners
Taste Lancashire Lune Valley Smokehouse Spectacular
Marketing Lancashire is delighted to announce a very special lunchtime Taste Lancashire Produce event which will take place at The Redwell Inn, Arkholme, Nr Carnforth on Saturday 23 June 2012. The Redwell Inn is currently Lancashire’s Taste Lancashire Restaurant of the Year 2011/12.
The tourist board’s new dining events, in partnership with some of the county’s finest restaurants, help demonstrate the abundance of superb produce available across Lancashire and the creativity and talent of local chefs. Diners enjoy a locally sourced, three course meal for £20 and get to meet and hear from one of the rural producers who contributed to the bespoke Taste Lancashire menu.
The Redwell Inn is situated in some of Lancashire’s most impressive countryside and it’s in these superb rural surroundings that Chef Patron Rob Talbot has created a lunchtime menu showcasing the Inn’s own Lune Valley Smokehouse produce. From locally sourced mussels and seabass, to their home made black pudding and unique Laggis (Lancashire Haggis), they’re all smoked in the recently installed smokehouse attached to the inn.
Rob started to experiment with smoking ingredients for the restaurant, in an old wardrobe adapted for the purpose. The resulting produce was so well received by customers that Rob, soon invested in his own smoking ovens and started to sell packed smoked produce for customers to take home. Just months later they were successful in an application for a grant to develop the smokehouse and shop, which will have its official opening during this Taste Lancashire Produce event on 23 June.
Commenting on the new facility Rob said “When we adapted the old wardrobe we were simply experimenting and hoping to develop new menu ideas but it’s taken off in such a big way, that we’ve happily consigned the wardrobe to storage and now have fantastic ovens that supply both the restaurant and shop. We already sell to a number of high quality hotels and restaurants in Lancashire and the Lake District and expect that business to grow as a result.”
“The Taste Lancashire Produce event will help us raise awareness of the new smokehouse and shop, and highlight The Redwell Inn as a destination for anyone who loves the real taste of Lancashire. The lunchtime event offers visitors a specially created three course lunch for just £20, the chance to visit the new shop and smokehouse, as well as food demonstrations and the opportunity to meet and buy from some of our great local producers.”
Rob’s Taste Lancashire Menu follows:
Starters
Garstang Blue Cheese Rarebit, pickled walnuts, watercress & port syrup
or
Morecambe Bay Shrimp risotto, Lune Valley Smokehouse smoked mussels, Thyme Oil
or
Hot Nether Kellet Free Range Egg, scotched with Lune Valley Smokehouse Black Pudding & Sausage Meat served with HP sauce
Mains
John Holdsworth’s Sous Vide Rump of Lune Valley Lamb, creamed pod peas & broad beans, Laggis & smoked garlic butter
or
Rick Althams Farleton Gloucester Old Spot Belly Pork, Lune Valley Smokehouse Handmade Black Pudding, Apple Puree & Stock Gravy
or
Smoked Wild Morecambe Bay Seabass, Braised Gem Lettuce, Saffron Beurre Blanc
Desserts
Leapers Rock Raspberry Eton Mess, homemade vanilla bean ice cream, meringue
or
Roasted Nectarines, vanilla panna cotta, sweet carrot foam
or
Leagram’s Organic Cheddar, Singleton’s Tasty Lancashire & Garstang Blue Cheese, Biscuits & Talbot’s Chilli Apple Chutney
£20.00 per person
To book a table for The Redwell Inn’s Taste Lancashire Produce lunch, on Saturday 23 June, call 015242 21240. Early booking is advised.
As part of a new programme of activity to raise the profile of Lancashire produce, Marketing Lancashire has developed and will promote a series of these Taste Lancashire Produce dining experiences. The restaurants and producers will benefit directly from the income generated by consumers attending these events and through the creation, sourcing and celebration of these special Lancashire menus.
The marketing of this event forms part of the Food Connect programme, for which Marketing Lancashire has secured funding from Defra’s Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE). The funding is to support food tourism activities, which includes the marketing of events which bring together suppliers, chefs, restaurateurs and customers, to demonstrate the breadth of local food on offer in Lancashire and the skills that can create exciting and ‘mouth watering’ dishes.
For more information about The Redwell Inn and The Lune Valley Smokehouse www.redwellinn.net
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Media enquiries: Anna Izza, Communications Manager, Marketing Lancashire
on 01772 426459
Notes to Editors
1. Marketing Lancashire is the new name for Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board (from 1st April 2012)
Our activities in marketing and communications, commercial membership, `Welcome to Excellence` training and place marketing are all designed to grow the visitor economy and develop the destination as a great place to visit, live and work.
In 2010 the Lancashire attracted 60 million visitors who contributed £3.25 billion to the local economy and helped support 55,227 jobs.
2. The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), for which Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) is the Managing Authority, is part financed by the European Agricultural Fund for rural development: Europe investing in rural areas. A priority for the RDPE is encouraging collaboration between food and tourism businesses, for the wider economic benefits that can be achieved, including employment opportunities.