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EAGLE & CHILD Serving Pub Classics with a Twist
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wner Glen describes the food
dishes ranging from the award winning ‘Double
whilst providing the perfect backdrop on a
at the award winning Eagle
Bomber’ Pie, made with Lancashire Bomb cheese
summer’s day, when the pub’s barbeque is lit
& Child as “quirky, seasonal
and curd and Thwaites beer onions, served with
and the beer is chilled.
and with distinct provenance
homemade baked beans to Albert Matthew’s
to Lancashire” and it’s this clear identity and
rack of heather fed Bowland lamb served with
passion that has led to award winning success
creamed cannellini beans, baby leeks and
for this socially run enterprise in Ramsbottom.
buttered greens. Finished off with Longridge ice
Transformed from a boarded-up pub five
cream and Glen’s very own Sloe Gin & Blackberry
years ago, Glen and his team are now picking
Jelly, using fruit from the pub’s one acre garden.
up awards for their menu and warm welcome,
Incredible Edible Beer Garden
and are now expanding to include new stylish bedrooms and a very unique dining experience. The whole operation is run as a social enterprise
Winner ‘Best in Class: Food and Drink’ Made in Bury business awards 2016
Step out of the Eagle & Child and you will find
Winner ‘Best Trainer’ Daniel Thwaites
into employment, so for those of you who choose
the usual beer garden set-up with a difference.
Awards for Excellence, 2016
to shop socially, you can feel good that your
Committed to regeneration and environmental
money is being well spent here.
education in his business ventures, Glen has
– supporting disadvantaged local young people
Their menu puts a quirky spin on heritage
created a garden where everything grown is
Winner ‘Hospitality & Tourism’ Skills for Business awards, 2016
favourites such as fish & chips and cheese &
there to be eaten. You’ll spot 14 free range
Winner ‘Entrepreneur of the year’
onion pie. Making use of local suppliers and
chickens, fruit trees, polytunnel and raised
Skills for Business awards, 2016
their own home-grown fruit, vegetables and
beds packed with vegetable and herbs – a truly
eggs, the team at the Eagle & Child serve up
edible beer garden. Fruit and veg from the
quality dishes with a very local provenance, each
garden features heavily on the specials board.
with its own special twist.
Last summer Sunday Lunch diners tucked into
Start your meal with some quirky appetisers,
dishes such as smoked pork belly with red wine,
such as their Manchester Egg made with Bury
new potatoes, runner beans and broad beans,
black pudding and a pickled egg, or how about
which made the most of the glut of home grown
salt & pepper fish fingers, lime, coriander and
produce growing rampantly in the garden. The
sriracha mayo. Next it’s on to main courses with
hillside location lends itself well to growing
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Winner ‘Best Food Pub’ Manchester Food and Drink Festival, 2016
3 Whalley Road, Ramsbottom, Bury, BL0 0DL Tel: 01706 557 101 eagle-and-child.com