Eat humble pie at The Minnis

As summer draws to its close the popular Minnis Bar & Restaurant overlooking the coast at Birchington-on-Sea in Kent, has announced that it will be serving old fashioned home-made pies every Wednesday night throughout autumn and winter from 1st October.

Each midweek the award winning kitchen, renowned for its use of local, seasonal fare, will be serving “proper” pies - with a top, side and bottom.

“These will be proper, big English pies, with home-made pastry with delicious fillings – not the pretend variety with silly bought-in puff pastry lids plonked on top of a casserole,” said The Minnis’ chef patron, Jason Freedman, who will be offering a minimum of three pie varieties.

These will include Kentish Beef and Gadds’ Ale, Local Fisherman’s Pie, Beef & Whitstable Oyster, Wild Venison, Caramelized Onion, Butternut Squash & Merlot, Free Range Chicken & Gourmet Mushroom and Kentish Ashmore Cheese, Broccoli & Potato.

Freedman will also trial such dishes Umble Pie using a medieval recipe with deer offal and a gourmet version of a classic Victorian Pie & Mash with green parsley liquor.

The pies will be offered as part of two- and 3-course menus at £12 and £16 respectively, but the pie will be the centre piece of a warming, wholesome fixed price meal, which can be enjoyed whilst looking out across a bitterly cold North Sea from the beach front restaurant.

More information at W: theminnis.co.uk.