The Scenic Supper launches new dining hub

Cotswolds dining destination, The Scenic Supper, has launched its brand new dining hub, Roots and Seeds Kitchen Garden. The hub will be permanently sited at The Old Kennels in Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire and opens Easter 2023. Roots and Seeds Kitchen Garden will offer coffee, breakfast, brunch, lunch and afternoon tea or takeaways daily, and dinner from Thursday to Saturday. Its menus will showcase “some of the finest” Cotswolds artisan produce from within a 25-mile radius alongside fruit and vegetables grown in its own, on-site kitchen garden. Situated next to listed buildings, the café and restaurant occupies a new, light-filled space with vaulted ceilings and large windows overlooking the kitchen garden. Adjacent to the restaurant is a separate children’s room, which will feature books and arts and crafts equipment designed to entertain families with young children. Outside, two courtyards will offer additional dining spaces divided by edible flower and herb-filled raised beds, with access to a new outdoor children’s play area as well as the kitchen garden. Head chef Sam Idione’s menus will showcase fresh, home-grown and local artisan produce, including locally reared beef, lamb, pork and poultry, game from the Bathurst Estate, and fresh fish and seafood delivered daily from Brixham in Devon. Vegetarian and vegan dishes will be available on every menu. The daytime and evening menus will have seasonal tweaks and a regularly changing specials board will also offer ‘Field to Fork’ dishes dictated by the seasons and what’s best on the day. In addition, a children’s menu and an all-day takeaway menu is also available. Dinner is served in the main restaurant Thursday to Saturday, while two of the Scenic Supper’s glasshouses, previously located at Todenham Manor Farm, will be re-sited in the Roots and Seeds kitchen garden, offering somewhere to sit with a coffee or take out. Roots and Seeds will also have a full bar with award-winning, artisan King Stone gin made by Roots and Seeds founder, Sam Lawson-King. A list of seasonally changing gin cocktails will be available, muddled with Lawosn-King’s own homemade shrubs, cordials and mixers. There will be a selection of English sparkling wines, and a wine list of Old and New World varieties from £6.90 a glass and available by the bottle, as well as beers produced next door by Corinium Ales and Hook Norton Brewery ciders. As well as supplying fresh produce for the restaurant, the Kitchen Garden will be used as a community space to encourage local school children to grow food in an interactive environment, and for volunteers and those from mental health charities to come together.