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Fish & Chips & MGB Real Ale £6
6 -8pm on Thursdays (£7 for Guest Ales & Lager) Seniors Luncheon
Selected meals just £6 12 -1.30pm on Thursdays Our function room is open! The Fleece's medieval styled 'Guild Rooom' is open! Perfect for eating, large groups, and functions..... 01787 211183 Food Served
Tues - Friday....12 - 2 and....6 - 9 Sat....12 - 2.30 and....6 - 9 Sun....12 - 2.30 |
Usual Opening Times
Mon - Thur..... 12-3
and....5-11
Fri - Sat.......12-12
Sun.........12-11
Mon - Thur..... 12-3
and....5-11
Fri - Sat.......12-12
Sun.........12-11
Food Being Served!
We know it has been long in coming and much anticipated, but
We are thrilled to start serving-up our fabulous fresh food. The menu reflects our passion for using local produce from local sources and is of course freshly prepared from scratch. Jarred's talents allow us to serve top quality food at reasonable prices. The atmospheric 'Guild Room' upstairs (decorated in a truly unique and medieval style) will be open for functions and meals.
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'Food at the Fleece'
Click here to see our Menus
Or....Click on the 'Full Screen' links below to view our individual menus from this page
We are thrilled to start serving-up our fabulous fresh food. The menu reflects our passion for using local produce from local sources and is of course freshly prepared from scratch. Jarred's talents allow us to serve top quality food at reasonable prices. The atmospheric 'Guild Room' upstairs (decorated in a truly unique and medieval style) will be open for functions and meals.
Click here to read more about
'Food at the Fleece'
Click here to see our Menus
Or....Click on the 'Full Screen' links below to view our individual menus from this page
View our Menus Here - Just click 'Full Screen' on the menu you wish to view
A la carte Menu |
Additional - Sunday Roast |
Extra for Thursdays |
Sandwiches |
New Landlords Jarred and Clare Welcome You Feb 2012
Pop in for a pint, sit in-front of a warm roaring fire, and meet new landlords Jarred and Clare.
Tornado Smith Scoops Top Award
Wednesday 5 October 2011 - Suffolk Free Press
A BREWERY has won a regional award for a beer named after a local hero.
Mill Green Brewery in Edwardstone was presented with a silver award for Best Bitter in the Eastern region in a competition held by SIBA, the Society of Independant Brewers.
The beer is named after George “Tornado” Smith, who entertained crowds in the 1930s by performing the gravity-defying wall of death stunt – firstly with his wife “Dynamite” Doris Craven and latterly a 12-stone lioness called Briton, who rode in the sidecar.
Brewer Tom Norton said: “It was great to get the award as it is judged by fellow brewers, publicans, experts and beer writers.
“We started brewing the beer in July, so it has not been running long."
“It has an interesting flavour as we use our own malt from down the road in Chelsworth but the hops are from New Zealand – they have a similar flavour to a New Zealand white wine so it is very fruity."
“And Tornado Smith was a bit of a local legend.”
The awards took place at Elgoods Brewery in Wisbech, where 185 beers in 12 categories were scrutinised by 55 judges.
Mr Norton said: “Unfortunately I couldn’t attend as I was too busy brewing beer.”
Pub To Be Restored To Former Glory Winter 2011
Earlier this year the Fleece in Boxford was closed and put on the market by pub company ‘Punch’. In May local business man John Norton bought the pub with the aim of reopening it as a village pub at the heart of the community.
The Fleece was once famous for its regular Jazz, hosting the likes of Jaime Cullum. It was also a bustling local with a busy public bar and a place for villages to enjoy a chat over a pint. When John bought the pub it had become a sad sight; the windows and doors were boarded up, the out-buildings full of rubbish, leaking pipes, damp floorboards and freezers full of rotten food.
John who also owns the White Horse in Edwardstone and Mill Green Brewery, and makes his own Cider has exciting plans for the pub. "With local pubs under threat from low cost Supermarket booze the pub needs to adapt" explained John shortly after getting his hands on the keys. "Not only do we want to create a pub that reflects it’s age and historic place in this beautiful medieval village, but we want it to support and cater for the needs of the local community." As renovation work goes on the search for period furniture from local auctions has been frantic. "We want the pub to feel classy but comfortable, using a mixture of appropriate furniture, making each room different, this will help us avoid the trap of becoming very monotone and boring". John believes that the pubs need to stop competing with the supermarkets. "We have a beautiful building here and our plans are to make the interior of the pub special. To complement this we want to sell produce produced locally as much as possible. Pubs are at the heart of our community but in so many cases the drinks they sell are imported and expensive, made buy multinationals with low production and high advertising costs. For a long time Supermarkets have been selling Lager brewed with the cheapest ingredients, Cider not made out of apples, tasteless spirits and Alco-pops at below cost price." John believes that pubs should not be trying to compete with them but should use local products that reflect the area they come from. ‘We make our own Beer with our own Suffolk Barley and Cider with Organic Suffolk apples. "We have Ale, Lager, Spirits and Wines all made in Suffolk and they are all great!"
John's other pub, the White Horse in Edwardstone, has won the Creating the Greenest Country Award for ‘Greenest Pub’. And Mill Green Brewery 'The Greenest Business Building' and 'Greenest Small Business'. Pubs can’t just be pubs any more, at the White Horse there are camping facilities, holiday accommodation, a wind turbine, solar panels and a brewery. The Fleece has a fantastic function room that needs to be used and a row of ancient stables not used since the last horse walked out in 1918, I'm sure with sensitivity they could be converted for a use which would benefit the local economy and help give the pub a secure future’.
