Owner Glen describes the food at the award winning Eagle & Child as “quirky, seasonal and with distinct provenance to Lancashire” and it’s this clear identity and passion that has led to award winning success for this socially run enterprise in Ramsbottom. Transformed from a boarded-up pub five years ago, Glen and his team are now picking up awards for their menu and warm welcome, and are now expanding to include new stylish bedrooms and a very unique dining experience. The whole operation is run as a social enterprise – supporting disadvantaged local young people into employment, so for those of you who choose to shop socially, you can feel good that your money is being well spent here.
Their menu puts a quirky spin on heritage favourites such as fish & chips and cheese & onion pie. Making use of local suppliers and their own home-grown fruit, vegetables and eggs, the team at the
Eagle & Child serve up quality dishes with a very local provenance, each with its own special twist. Start your meal with some quirky appetisers, such as their Manchester Egg made with Bury black pudding and a pickled egg, or how about salt & pepper fish fingers, lime, coriander and sriracha mayo. Next it’s on to main courses with dishes ranging from the award winning ‘Double Bomber’ Pie, made with Lancashire Bomb cheese and curd and Thwaites beer onions, served with homemade baked beans to Albert Matthew’s rack of heather fed Bowland lamb served with creamed cannellini beans, baby leeks and buttered greens. Finished off with Longridge ice cream and Glen’s very own Sloe Gin & Blackberry Jelly, using fruit from the pub’s one acre garden.
Incredible Edible Beer Garden Step out of the
Eagle & Child and you will find the usual beer garden set-up with a difference. Committed to regeneration and environmental education in his business ventures, Glen has created a garden where everything grown is there to be eaten. You’ll spot 14 free range chickens, fruit trees, polytunnel and raised beds packed with vegetable and herbs – a truly edible beer garden. Fruit and veg from the garden features heavily on the specials board. Last summer Sunday Lunch diners tucked into dishes such as smoked pork belly with red wine, new potatoes, runner beans and broad beans, which made the most of the glut of home grown produce growing rampantly in the garden. The hillside location lends itself well to growing whilst providing the perfect backdrop on a summer’s day, when the pub’s barbeque is lit and the beer is chilled.
You can read the full advertorial feature in the 2017 Lancashire Visitor Magazine below or order a copy here
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