New restaurant opens at award-winning Suffolk Food Hall

The multi-award winning Suffolk Food Hall has just launched its latest offering; a state-of-the-art restaurant called the 'Cookhouse' specialising in 'traditional British cuisine with a contemporary twist'.

As with the adjacent Food Hall, which opened five years earlier in 2007, only the highest-value, best-quality, locally-sourced food will be served in the restaurant.

Floor to ceiling glass windows offer undoubtedly the best views of the county's iconic Orwell Bridge and of the sailing boats that navigate the River Orwell below it whilst 6,000 square-footage enables the restaurant to serve approximately 300 covers for Sunday lunch.

As well as the mezzanine restaurant and private dining rooms, 'Feast', the Cookhouse has a demonstration kitchen from which celebrated local chefs such as Emma Crowhurst can now offer regular cookery demonstrations and food skills classes. There are also offices available to rent for local artisan food producers.

Typical lunch main meal offerings include:

Duck leg hash with Capel St Mary mushrooms and spinach, topped with a pan fried duck egg (£11.95); Flaked ham hock with grain mustard mash, butternut squash and a parsley sauce (£10.95) and; the restaurant's signature 'fish pie' topped with parmesan crust (£11.25).

Typical dinner main meal offerings include:

Five hours slow braised featherblade of beef with mustard mash, confit carrot, spinach and beetroot jus (£18.95) or Rib Eye or Beef Fillet (8 and 10oz respectively) served with classic béarnaise or peppercorn sauce (£23.50) sourced from locally reared Red Poll cattle.

According to Oliver Paul, who, along with his cousin, Robert Paul, conceived and launched the Suffolk Food Hall and Cookhouse, the new restaurant completes the field to fork cycle and is a 'totally unique food and drink proposition in the county'.

Originally frustrated by the lack of access customers had to locally-sourced, high quality produce, the two farmers (Oliver and Robert come from the BOCM Paul family) built the food and drinks emporium. "The Cookhouse now means we've gone from being quality producers, to retailers and now to restaurateurs in just over five years."

Oliver and Robert Paul hope to replicate and capitalise on the recession-bucking success of the Suffolk Food Hall with the Cookhouse.

The Suffolk Food Hall and Cookhouse is located in an Area of Oustanding Natural Beauty just two miles south of Ipswich and five minutes from the A12 / A14. It is approximately an hour and a half's drive from central London.

For bookings, visit suffolkfoodhall.co.uk.