The Supper Club

Organisers:  Colin Ellis - supper@ashbyu3a.co.uk - phone 01530 272592
and Mike Stow - phone 01530 469152

This group aims to visit local pubs and restaurants for an evening meal and and social conversation. We normally meet on the 4th Thursday of the month at 7 pm for 7.30 (This is a fortnight away from the Lunch Group). We will jointly decide on venues.

Everyone is welcome, all we ask is that you sign the sheet by the display board at the monthly meeting prior to the supper, or contact Colin or Mike, by phone or by email, so we can book the relevant number of seats.

If anyone is interested in coming along, but has been discouraged by problems with transport, it may be possible to arrange lifts. Please contact Colin or Mike on the numbers or emails above.

There may sometimes be a limit on numbers depending on the venue's ability to cater for larger numbers, in which case places will be offered strictly on a first come, first served basis. There may also need to be a cut-off date for bookings. This will be stated on the bookings list.

27th November – The Mill Wheel at Hartshorne

The Mill Wheel has recently been taken over by The Jennings Rooms which has moved there from Swad. They have brought a good reputation with them and we had personal recommendations, so decided to try it out.

Spoiler alert! It was very good. The rather lovely menu online has been shortened down and made more seasonal for the Christmas period but was still interesting and somewhat different to the usual pub menus. We had pre-ordered, which seems to be getting more and more common these days but at least it saved time on arrival.

Service was very good, prompt and friendly, the food was very nice and quite generous and as it was a set price menu for 2 or 3 courses, paying was much simpler than usual with no-one forgetting that they'd had something extra!

I see that Luncheon group are planning to go there in Jan and two other members are planning to take other non-u3a groups there too. It has obviously made an impression in the short time that the new management has been operating.