WELCOME
Summer festival opera is unique in offering time to savour at leisure both stage and dining table. At The Grange we pride ourselves on giving you ten minutes more than our peers in the long interval for the unhurried enjoyment of both epicurean and social delights. Our first few years of Grange Estate chef, Becka Cooper’s menus – Dinner inside, Supper outside – have proved a triumph. She and her team have risen magnificently to the challenge of feeding many hundreds of you every evening with locally sourced food of lyrical taste and colourful hue.
Our renowned Hampshire wine merchant, Simon Taylor, knows of old what flows deliciously on highly charged summer evenings. And our trump card, The Grange Sparkling Wine, features prominently among your pre-performance aperitifs. Every restaurant in the land has struggled in recent months to keep costs down. Becka has gone out of her way to do the same. You will not be surprised that our Dinner and Supper prices are a little higher than last time. But we are determined that the performance in the kitchen will match that on the stage.
As you will hear Macbeth sing this summer before his ill-fated Feast, “Pago son io d’accogliere tali ospiti a banchetto – I am happy to welcome such guests to the banquet.” We expect no ill fate.
Michael Chance
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