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Reserve a table 0116 496 0420 · 3 Tanners Yard, Loughborough
A long wooden table laid for a feast with lit candles down the middle
Private dining & groups

The room, the counter, or the whole place.

Six at the pass with the hearth in front of you. Sixteen behind a door of their own. Twenty-four down one table. Feasts come family-style, the fire does the entertaining, and one person on our side sorts everything with you.

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The spaces

Three ways to sit, one fire.

Two chefs working behind the pass, seen over the counter stools
Chef’s counter

Six seats at the pass.

  • Seats 4 to 6, one booking takes the whole counter
  • Set feast, 9 courses chosen that day by the head chef, £68 a head
  • Wine pairing £40 a head, or the low & no pairing £22
  • Tuesday to Saturday, 7pm sitting, about two and a half hours
A private dining room with a candlelit table, glassware and shelves of bottles
The Oak Room

Your own door, your own pace.

  • Seats 8 to 16 at one oak table, or 24 standing
  • Feast menus from £45 a head, set with you a week ahead
  • Minimum spend £600 midweek, £900 Friday and Saturday
  • Own sound, own lighting, a hatch to the kitchen for the show
A long table of guests eating, drinking and talking under warm lights
Group feasts

One long table in the room.

  • Seats 7 to 24 in the main room, in the thick of it
  • Feast menus from £42 a head, three choices of centrepiece
  • Whole venue for up to 70 seated or 110 standing, Sunday to Wednesday, ask us
  • Pre-order the centrepiece, choose the rest on the night
How it works

Three steps, one person.

Tell us the shape of it

Date, numbers, occasion, budget if you have one. Use the form below or ring. You’ll get a reply from Mags, who runs the room, within a working day.

We build the menu with you

Every feast starts from what the fire does best that month. Allergies and diets are designed in from the start, never bolted on. You get a menu card with names on it.

Deposit, then we’re on

£10 a head holds the table and comes off the bill. Numbers can move by two either way up to 48 hours before. Then all you have to do is turn up.

A feast, for example
Oak Room · 12 guests · £52 a head
To start, on the table
Flatbreads & dripping, whipped butter, gordal olives, smoked cod’s roe
From the embers
Charred hispi, anchovy butter
Scallops in the shell, nduja butter
Grilled gem, smoked crème fraîche
Centrepiece, carved at the table
Côte de boeuf, 45 days, bone-marrow gravy
Or whole sea bass, or whole hispi for the vegans. Chips, ember potatoes, greens.
To finish
Burnt cheesecake & ember-roast plums, passed round
Enquire

Tell us what you’re planning.

Birthdays, the work do, a wedding breakfast, a wake, a Tuesday for no reason. Fill this in and Mags will come back to you within a working day. Or ring 0116 496 0420 between 10am and 5pm.

A chef’s tattooed hands laying a slice of steak onto a plate
We need a name.
A number we can ring.
That email doesn’t look right.
e.g. Sat 14 November, or mid-DecemberA date or a rough one.
Roughly how many.
Allergies, budget per head, a speech, a cake, a big table of vegans...
We reply within a working day.
Good to know

Questions people ask.

Can we bring a cake?

Yes. Tell us and we’ll keep it cold, bring it out when you nod, and serve it. No charge.

What about vegans, coeliacs and allergies?

They eat as well as everyone else. Whole hispi over coals is the vegan centrepiece and it’s a serious plate. Every feast is built around what your group needs before anything else is decided.

Can we have the counter for a smaller group?

Four takes it. Fewer than four and you’re better off booking counter seats on the night through the Reserve button.

Is there a minimum spend?

Only in the Oak Room: £600 midweek, £900 on Friday and Saturday, and food and drink both count towards it. The counter and long tables are per head with no minimum.

Music, speeches, decorations?

The Oak Room has its own speakers and a cable for your phone. Speeches are fine anywhere. Decorations, within reason; the walls are old and the fire is real, so nothing that dangles.

Children?

Very welcome until 8pm in the main room and at any time in the Oak Room. High chairs, a half-size feast plate and crayons.