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As ever, the menu in the Hobbs House Bistro boasts the freshest flavours of the season.  With it's regularly changing menu, you have to keep returning to make sure you don't miss out on the taste of NOW. Check out the May menu here, and call 01453 839 396 to book your table this Friday... Read more »

Marcus Walters at Art Flea This weekend, screen print artist and illustrator Marcus Walters will be taking part in Art Flea, an event held at the Brunel designed Goods Shed in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Marcus has taken the opportunity to have a spring clean at his studio and will be selling mountains of screen prints produced... Read more »

We've got duck from Madgett's Farm in the Forest of Dean, smoked trout from Bibury, and yoghurt from Jess's Ladies, the much loved cows who live just down the road.   The Medjool dates in the buttermilk pudding are soaked in Has Bean coffee (the recipe is from the first Fabulous Baker Brothers book).   Our... Read more »

The Real Bread campaign is celebrating the rise of handmade and homemade bread with a whole week of celebrations.  They exhort you all to get baking, or to support your local bread makers, those early risers amongst us.  With a bucket full of ideas and a plea to raise some much needed dough to further... Read more »

Freya joined us for a week in April, and wanted to share her experience of working at Hobbs House… I had an early start on Monday, having to drive up from Plymouth to Chipping Sodbury to start my week of work experience. Despite nearly ending up in Wales, I made it to the bakery at... Read more »

Mama Mia… celebrity chef pizza cook-off at Pizza Oven launch, with Hobbs House’s Tom Herbert in the red team. The king of BBQs, Weber®, launched the Original™ Charcoal Pizza Oven last night, with its own red carpet premiere.  Four celebrity chefs battle it out to create and bake the best pizza.  Top chefs Fergus Henderson,... Read more »

The inspirational Kate Gover from Lahloo Tea is holding a tea making workshop in our newly opened School on 19th April.  Courses at Hobbs House School are a great way of sharing, not only our own skills in baking, butchery and patisserie, but also a wonderful place to bringing together truly special experts like Kate... Read more »

Sharpham Park have launched an initiative on www.GreatBritishSpeltRecipes.com, with spelt recipes from contributing chefs, food writers and critics, in partnership with Bowel Cancer UK, highlighting the need to eat a high fibre diet to help avoid bowel cancer.  Tom and Henry have donated their Spelt Soda Bread recipe to the collection. View the new website... Read more »

Last Saturday, @HobbsHouseBoy, spent a sunny morning sampling bread @ChandosDeli to promote the longstanding and fruitful link between us, in the name of #realbread.  Great food, pure and simple  has been the Chandos Deli strapline from the beginning, and with our Hobbs House loaves, we really enjoy playing our part in delivering this tasty aim. Since 1992, Chandos have been purveyors... Read more »

If you've been watching Henry Herbert in the Fabulous Baker Brothers series, you'll have seen him smoking fish to rapturous acclaim. On the Bistro menu this week we are celebrating this success with some delicious Severn Smokie and parsnip fishcakes with brown butter hollandaise. Severn Smokies are a locally smoked haddock which is just as flavourful... Read more »

Staff and collaborators at Hobbs House School had a jubilant party recently to celebrate all the good things to come in this exciting new exploit. Joined by upcoming workshop masters of knife skills, pizza ovens, home brewing and Indian street food, Tom and Henry Herbert and the Hobbs House team of cake experts, Sasha and Carla,... Read more »

The Bistro chefs have put together a blinder of a menu for this weekend.  Check out the full menu here, where you can whet your appetite with thoughts of hand-dived Scallops with anise spiced carrot puree, crispy black pudding and sage, tickle your fancy at the mention of slow roast Lop pork collar with fennel... Read more »