Are you looking for inspiration, new ideas and to brush up your skills? Has your enthusiasm sunk like your soufflé? Our head chef, Dave Watts, will give you a fresh look at ingredients, ideas with seasonal produce, and inspiration to have you rushing home with new joie de vive. Designed for experienced cooks and those who want a nudge to be braver.

Time: 9.30 until 2pm
Tickets: £50 per person including coffee on arrival,
two-course lunch and wine

To book call 01386 840300.

Lunch: Richard Davenport Hines -
Titanic Lives
This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous ships in history. In his momentous book, Titanic Lives, the historian and biographer Richard Davenport-Hines brings to life in fascinating detail the stories of the men who built and owned the ship, the crew who serviced her and the passengers who sailed in her, and talks about how this superb ship was in many ways a microcosm of Edwardian life and re-creates the tensions of life 100 years ago.

Time: 12 for 12.30pm
Tickets: £38 Single Ticket
£63 Double Ticket

Wine Dinner: Kumeu River Vineyard, New Zealand
A welcome return of this hugely popular wine region dinner. Founded in 1944, Kumeu River is now widely recognised as one of the world’s leading producers of quality white wines. No Kumeu Chardonnay has ever scored less than 90/100 in the Wine Spectator reviews, a status no other New  World producer could match. Their international reputation was further secured by Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate awarding the 2006 vintage 95 points, and the likes of Jancis Robinson and Tim Atkin have heaped praise. Sample the iconic Chardonnays, and outstanding Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir with Paul Brajkovich, son of the founder, will be with us to tutor what promises to be a wonderful evening.

Time: 7 for 7.30pm
Tickets: £75 per person for a four-course dinner and
all wines

Our wine dinners are in conjunction with Bennetts Fine Wines, Chipping Campden.

In a fast paced world, Tristan Gooley is a breath of fresh air. A writer and navigator, he has lead expeditions in five continents, climbed mountains all over the world, sailed oceans and piloted small aircraft. He is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed single-handed across the Atlantic, and helped the lost Alison Steadman, Sue Perkins and Stephen Mangan in BBC2’s All Roads Lead to Nowhere. A fascinating speaker, he’ll be showing you how to read the landscape and discover a world through different eyes.

Time: 12 for 12.30pm

Tickets: £36 Single Ticket

£61 Double Ticket

The Town's Literature Festival. Click here for details of speakers.

We launch into Summer with an exhibition of work by notable local artists and sculptors including glassmaker Colin Hawkins. Admission to garden free.

The 11th year of this brilliant and highly regarded Festival. Click here for the programme.

We launch the first of our new workshop series with a day for anyone with a novel in the drawer or even in their head. Mavis Cheek is a highly-acclaimed author of 15 novels, including the award winning Pause Between Acts, Mrs Fytton’s Country Life, Janice Gentle Gets Sexy and The Lovers of Pound Hill. She is
highly experienced in running workshops – especially for the Arvon Foundation – and this workshop is designed for those who are at the beginning of fiction writing and need encouragement and guidance about how to carry on - and those who have tried writing novels or short stories and then stalled. The day touches lightly on the ingredients of good fiction with workshops and discussions aims to be both fun and  informative with sessions that get you flexing those writer’s muscles.

Time: 10am - 3pm
Tickets: £75 including a coffee on arrival, two-course lunch and afternoon tea. Numbers are restricted so
please book early.

To book call 01386 840330.

We’re celebrating this momentous event with a street party in traditional style. Enjoy a glass of fizz, a delicious summer lunch and wave a flag to celebrate the day.
Time: To be confirmed

In aid of Action Medical Research

To celebrate 30 years of local fund-raising for this excellent charity, come and enjoy a glass of wine in the garden (weather permitting) followed by a two-course summer lunch, then enjoy a talk from Val Bourne. Val, who gardens without chemicals near Cheltenham, is a lecturer and garden writer with columns in The Daily Telegraph, Saga Magazine, The Oxford Times, The Hardy Plant Society Journal. Author of the Ten Minute Gardener Series and Colour in the Garden, she’ll inspire you and answer your garden questions.

Time: 12 for 12.30pm

Tickets: £39 Single Ticket £70 Double Ticket include a book and donation to Action Medical Research

To book call 01386 840330

Painting in Watercolour Workshop with David Birch
A very special day with the acclaimed painter and printmaker David Birch. David is one of the Cotswold’s most respected artists, his work has been collected worldwide and he has exhibited nationally at venues including The Royal Academy of Arts in London, The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers,
The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and The Royal Watercolour Society. He will give you fresh ideas for your work and help you develop your skills, with the opportunity to paint in the hotel gardens and around the village of Chipping Campden (weather permitting). Designed for intermediate and experienced
painters. Please bring your own equipment.

Time: 9.30 – 3pm
Tickets: £95 including a coffee on arrival, two-course lunch and tea. Numbers are restricted so please book early.
 

Being Game With Grouse

Timed to coincide with the Glorious 12th and the start of the game season, our head chef, Dave Watts, will show you how to buy and prepare game, demonstrate what a wonderfully versatile ingredient it is, and give you inspiration and recipe ideas.

Time: 9.30 until 2pm

Tickets: £60 per person including coffee on arrival, two-course lunch and wine.

Book early for lunch with the real Chatelaine of Highclere for a unique insight into this famous house and its history. She’ll be sharing anecdotes about what it is like to be run a house of this size in the 21st Century and talk about the wordwide success of the TV series.

Time: 12 for 12.30pm
Tickets: £31 Single Ticket
£56 Double Ticket

To book call 01386 840330.