Sloe
A cook turning meat over an open fire

Slow on Purpose

Cooked over wood. Grown within fifty miles. Rewritten four times a year.

01 / The room

One room, fifty-two seats

Lime plaster, oak, brass and a fire in the middle of it. The eight seats at the counter can't be booked — they're always for walk-ins.

The dining room at night
Behind the bar
Above the pass
The lounge

03 / The cellar

Wine, made for smoke

Forty bottles, all of them open by the glass. Eight of them below. Mostly low-intervention, half of it grown in England.

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01East Sussex

Tillingham Qvevri pét-nat

Tillingham, Qvevri

Pét-nat · cloudy, dry

$14 / $62

02Savoie

Domaine Belluard Le Feu

Belluard, Le Feu

Gringet · flinty, cold

$17 / $79

03Trentino

Foradori Fontanasanta

Foradori, Fontanasanta

Nosiola on skins · apricot

$15 / $70

04Burgenland

Gut Oggau Theodora

Gut Oggau, Theodora

Field blend · tense, saline

$16 / $76

05Bordeaux

Château Le Puy Émilien

Château Le Puy, Émilien

Merlot, no sulphur · for the duck

$18 / $88

06Devon

Ashridge Devon Blush cider

Ashridge, Devon Blush

Keeved cider · off-dry

$9 / $38

07Kent

Westwell Ortega skin contact

Westwell, Ortega

Skin contact · apricot, for the plaice

$15 / $68

08Our own

House sloe gin

Sloe gin, house

Picked after the first frost

$7

Everything on this list is open by the glass. The sloe gin sits from October until Christmas before we pour it.

04 / An evening with the chef

The chef's menu
three courses, one fire

8 seats Wed–Sat · 7pm
The chef plating at the pass
01

Scallop on the embers

Grilled in the shell over dying coals, brown butter, a spoon of its own roe, burnt lemon.

Hand-dived · Lyme Bay

02

Aged sirloin on the bone

Sixty days dry-aged, seared hard on the grill, bone-marrow butter, watercress and mustard.

Yeo Marsh Farm · Somerset Levels

03

Burnt honey tart

Set custard scented with wood smoke, honey caramelised almost to bitter, thick cream.

Gorse & Comb · Quantocks

$150 per person · wine pairing + $35

05 / Social

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