Five Star new kitchen

Thank you to all our customers and neighbours for your patience and bouquets to the Cannon Crew & kitchen team who have coped magnificently with the difficulties over the last few weeks while we’ve be operating from a temporary kitchen.

The good news is that the flooring is going down today and the new kitchen will be fully operational from sometime on Wednesday. There may be a bit of a hiatus for a day or two while everyone learns where to find everything, but hopefully, yet again, the smooth operation of the brasserie will be unaffected. Our Cannon Fodder menu over the last few weeks has featured lots of lovely warming and comforting stews and curries. We shall be seamlessly continuing into National Curry Week this week with more of the delicious curries Adrian and Som have been busy perfecting from their temporary base.

Just before we ripped it down and started to rebuild, the Cannon Kitchen received the top accolade of five gold stars under the Council Health Department’s “Scores on the Doors” scheme. If it were possible, we should now be in the running for an extra star with our new cooking, freezer and refrigerated storage facilities.

Christmas is coming

We had a great morning at Alder Carr Farmers' Market on Saturday tasting and selling our new Gunner's Daughter christmas puddings, new for this year, and made for us using our ale by Coles Traditional Puddings in Essex. I was able to try out the delicious combo of Gunner's Daughter Christmas pud with Alder Carr's amazing Christmas ice cream - a treat our Christmas party customers will be able to choose from our seasonal menu which starts on 1st Dec. I have to report it was scrummy, a match made in heaven! Roll on December!!

We sold a lot of our celebratory ale for St Edmund's Day too in mini casks as well as 'bright' in carry kegs - quite a lot of customers commented on how they'd read about the brew in The East Anglian earlier in the week or heard about it yesterday morning on BBC Radio Suffolk. It was surprising how few people knew that St Edmund was our country's first patron saint - we need to reinstate him, he's far more eligible than St George!