The Calcot Collection launches new restaurant and café lounge

Calcot and Spa in Gloucestershire has unveiled its new restaurant, The Brasserie, and day-to-night café lounge, The Hive.

Serving breakfast (for guests), lunch, dinner afternoon tea and Sunday lunch, The Brasserie overlooks the surrounding gardens and rewilded grounds.

According to the hotel, interiors and menus of the new restaurant are spruced “to provide new and returning hotel guests and locals with a warm and welcoming space with great food”.

Executive chef, Richard Davies, and his team have curated a menu which features fresh ingredients, sourced seasonally and locally, where possible, as well as foraged elements from Calcot’s very own land and honey from the hotel’s apiary.

Starters including Westcombe cheddar souffle with truffle cheese sauce, dressed crab, and pig’s head croquette with a caper, raisin and apple gribiche sit alongside mains such as Wiltshire lamb with Janssons potato galette and Jerusalem artichoke, Cotswold white chicken with gnocchi, red cabbage and a peppercorn sauce, Cauliflower risotto with smoked beetroot and Perl Las cheese, and a grill menu.

Accompanying this is a carefully curated wine list.

Additionally, between 5 and 6pm is a special hour for Children’s Tea (for those up to age 12).

A brand-new addition to the hotel is The Hive – a stylish café lounge which offers coffee and brunch throughout the day and turns into an ambient spot for pre-dinner cocktails and after dinner drinks in the evening.

The cafe lounge serves brunch, nibbles and grazing boards to share, afternoon tea, fine wines and a list of Cotswold-inspired cocktails (such as a Beehive Martini, a Calcot Garden and a Rhubarb & Elderflower Crush) and mocktails.

The renovation of The Brasserie and the launch of The Hive represents the latest in the Calcot Collection’s ongoing investment plan.

Later this year Calcot and Spa will add a brand-new gym and fitness studio, complete with its own café, workspace, and a regular programme of classes and wellbeing talks, offering enhanced facilities and services for members and guests from January.

A revitalisation of the spa will follow, with additional treatment rooms in order to meet the continued demand for Calcot and Spa’s blissful therapies.

Richard Ball, executive chairman of The Calcot Collection, said: “These additions to The Calcot Collection mark an exciting new phase in our offering to guests and locals alike. With the advent of more flexible working, we have found that the way in which our guests are using our hotels’ spaces have changed; people want the ability to switch between leisure and work time more readily, and to dine in an adaptable way that suits differing wants, needs and groups coming together for work or play. Operationally, we are working with a close- knit team that allows us to be nimble and accommodate this evolving guest demand.”