Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2012 | Page 136
FOOD
New look for Essex Cottage
Fine home-cooked food, excellent service and
fish and meat every day, and all our food is
evenings. The outside facilities include a
a warm, friendly atmosphere provide the ideal
freshly prepared and cooked in our kitchen.
courtyard and a decking area on different
ingredients for the perfect restaurant.
We also try to use local produce whenever
levels, complemented with comfortable new
possible.”
furniture.
That can certainly be said of the new-look
Essex Cottage, Godshill, which has recently
Teri said: “Hopefully that will enable us to
duties with preparing mouth-watering sweets
have regular summer barbecue evenings,
vivacious owner Teri Wood.
and puddings, and also cooks some of the
and also have the facility for an outside bar
excellent specials that are on offer, alongside
as well.”
Teri’s plan was to work on what had already
been carried out at the Essex Cottage,
head chef Dean Taylor. Dean has already
and then fine-tune it to her ideas, including
introduced some of his own ideas to the
making it more accessible to families, and
menu, and they been very well received.
providing a high class service.
The Essex, which claims to have a
The Essex also has a fine selection of beers
and wines to complement the food, including
history stretching back 1,000 years, opens
draught lager, draught cider and draught
at 10.30am each day for coffees, scones
beer, European and Island Ales bottled beers,
teacakes and patisseries. Meals are served
as well as red, rose and white wines.
from midday through to last orders, which
The restaurant also welcomes enquiries
extend until 9.0pm throughout the summer
for special occasions such as birthdays or
months, and are up to 8.0pm in winter. There
wedding anniversaries, and hopes to attract
is an extensive menu from which to choose
local businesses and associations for coffee
your food, as well as a tempting specials
mornings, lunch and evening meals and
board.
meetings.
Teri, who is helped front of house by her
daughter Jenna, said: “We have a delivery of
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Workaholic Teri combines her front of house
been taken over and transformed by
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The Essex has around 50 covers inside, and
a further 50 outside for those warm summer
For further details and bookings enquiries
call Teri Wood on 01983-840909.