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Stylish 18th Birthday Celebration at The Ramblers Rest.
It was an honour to host a special 18th celebration at The Ramblers’ Rest for two of my employees Chloe and Rebecca, along with their brother Alex – 
‘Triplets!! It was the perfect venue for 25 family and close friends to enjoy a private, relaxed, intimate dining experience, all tailor made to suit.
The party enjoyed a 3 course dinner of quality, fresh, homecooked food, all locally sourced using our East Yorkshire Wolds’ suppliers. The Black Pudding Wellington and Salmon Fishcakes were a popular choice, along with Slow braised Lamb Shanks and Crispy Duck with a Blackcurrant and Raisethorpe Sloe Gin Sauce. Chloe struggled to choose between her choice of ’Gluten Free’ desserts, Creme Brule, Fresh Raspberry Pavlova, Chocolate Brandy Mousse!
It was great to be able to offer our luxury accommodation to the guests who had come from afar, prolonging their Ramblers’ Rest experience with a comfortable nights stay in our beautiful rooms and a traditional Yorkshire breakfast to set them up for the day.
Congratulations, Chloe, Rebecca and Alex!!
Seasons Greetings from The Ramblers Rest to all our Customers!
We are having a great Christmas here at the Ramblers’ Rest, Millington with lots of Festive parties in the Restaurant and Tea Room and would like to thank everyone who chose to celebrate with their work colleagues,family or friends at The Ramblers Rest.
We would like to wish all our customers a wonderful Christmas and all the very best for The New Year, thanking everyone for their continued custom and support.
We are open Boxing Day through to New Years Eve inclusive, 11am-3pm.
Due to private functions we are Closed Sunday 23rd, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Day.
Happy Christmas!!!!! xxxx
The Queens Jubilee Celebrations at The Ramblers Rest
We have had a busy Bank holiday at The Ramblers Rest. Despite the disappointing weather people still turned out to enjoy the celebrations. Traditional afternoon tea proved popular, fresh sandwiches filled with local homecooked Roast Ham and Coronation Chicken and a wide selection of homemade cakes and pastries, our Cream and Strawberry Scones were a definite favourite, along with ‘Victoria Sandwich Cake’ and Sticky Orange Drizzle Cake.
We had a busy week in the accommodation with a variation of guests. Cyclists doing the Way of the Roses, walkers doing The Wolds Way long distance walk and then a lovely family here for the weekend to celebrate their daughters wedding at nearby Huggate church.
Looking forward to a busy Summer season. Lets hope the weather improves and everyone can enjoy the picturesque wolds walks, cycle routes and scenic drives in our area without getting wet! Then, come and indulge in a light lunch or afternoon tea sampling a Ramblers”‘ Rest Platter with our delicious Home cooked Ham and Selection of Cheeses, Chargrilled Black Pudding with Melted Stilton and Braised Red Cabbage or Fresh Salmon Pate garnished with Tiger Prawns and Smoked Salmon with a Sweet Chilli dressing. Finishing off with Bramble and Apple Pie with crumbly Shortcrust Pastry or a Fresh Cream Meringue……
Look forward to welcoming you and please feel free to call Angela on 01759 305220 for further info on The TeaRoom and Restaurant or Zoe on 01759 303292 for Accommodation.
St Valentines Night at The Ramblers’ Rest
Valentines night is filling up fast and we look forward to welcoming and spoiling all you romantic couples out there.
Indulge that special somebody in our cosy, romantic, candlelit surroundings, with the added temptation of an overnight stay in our Luxury Accommodation with Champagne Breakfast?
The Menu is available to view on our Valentines Page.
We had the cameras from Look North this week. Simon Spark came to The Ramblers’ Rest on a busy Monday lunchtime, interested to see the effect that David Hockney our talented Wolds Artist, currently showing a fabulous Art exhibition in London, will have on our area. Hockneys work displays the beautiful, open landscape we have around us and the general feeling would suggest that anyone visiting the exhibition will be keen to see it for real!
Our customers on Monday were very accommodating to Simon, and in expressing their feelings to him it does become obvious how the stunning natural beauty of the Yorkshire Wolds really does draw people to the area be it walking, cycling or generally sightseeing.
My apologies for the lack of News!!!
The good news being that business is really good and I seem to have very little time to sit at my computer.
We wish everyone a great 2012 and thankyou for your continued support and custom.
Angela, Jeremy,Zoe and Martyn.
Visit Britain representative has overnight stay at Ramblers’ Rest!
Although we knew we were to expect a visit from Visit Britain to rate our accommodation, and despite a few ‘Do you think she is?’ sort of feelings, Zoe and I were still surprised and slightly ‘panicky’ when a lovely guest presented herself after breakfast to announce she was in fact doing our ratings. She had thoroughly enjoyed her stay at The Ramblers’ Rest and took time to sit down with us to discuss her stay and offer us some very useful advice. We are awaiting an official report but we believe we are to be given a high 4 stars, which we are really pleased with.
The B&B Accommodation is going really well and we are getting a wide cross section of customer, walkers doing the Wolds and Minster Way walks , couples and families enjoying a weekend away and lots of cyclists doing the ‘Way of the Roses’ cycle route. This is a long distance ’coast to Coast’ cycle route of 170miles from Morcambe to Bridlington and to our delight passes through the village of Millington. This couple were setting off early in the morning with the sun brightly shining, to continue the ride, having had a relaxing nights stay with us.
Another bank holiday is upon us.
We have a busy weekend ahead with private party restaurant bookings, the B&B rooms almost fully booked and hopefully busy with customers enjoying the picturesque Wolds scenery and the hospitality of The Ramblers’ Rest tea room. Indulge in afternoon tea, with, for example, a Ramblers’ Rest Platter including home cooked honey roast ham, home made Fresh Cream and Strawberry Scones, Meringues, and Fresh Raspberry Bakewell Tart.
The Tea Room is open Thurs- Monday from 10.30am. We loook forward to welcoming you.
Growing Routes enjoy Evening Dinner at The Ramblers’ Rest
We had a very enjoyable evening at The Ramblers’ Rest when George Hamilton and Dennis Jones from Growing Routes brought their team for their belated Christmas get together and to present me with a Plaque from Growing Routes, illustrating their support of The Ramblers’ Rest in the development of The Tea Room and Restaurant and Quality B&B Accommodation.
‘The Ramblers’ Rest has been very fortunate to have had a great deal of support from Growing Routes throughout its development, from the very early stages of planning up to present day.We were introduced to George first, during the early days of our ‘dreams’ to expand, and he then went on to help, advise and prepare us for our Grant Application to Yorkshire Forward. (Growing Routes was founded by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, with the support of Yorkshire Forward to help new and existing farm/rural businesses.)
Successful with our application and building works well on the way, Growing Routes continued their support in the ‘form’ of Dennis Jones by offering us a Mentor to help with areas of our business that we felt would benefit from this service. Over the last year we have been extremely lucky to have had a fantastic mentor, Tracey Baty of three60 marketing and pr, based in Shiptonthorpe, who has helped us in so many ways, offering knowledge and expertise and always with bags of encouragement and enthusiasm for what we want to achieve from The Ramblers’ Rest.
I would like to say a very big thankyou to George, Dennis and Tracey and wish Growing Routes continued success in providing the time to offer invaluable advice, support and ecouragement to small rural businesses.
Happy New Year from all at The Ramblers’ Rest.
Angela, Jeremy, Martyn and Zoe would like to wish all our customers the very best for the New Year.
We have had a fantastic Christmas season in the New Ramblers, lots of successful Christmas parties, despite the horrible weather. Thank you to those who perservered with the snow and managed to get here!
The Bed and Breakfast is also going well, and we had a great New years Eve in the restaurant, with our diners taking all four rooms as well. Thank you to Jim and Rach for booking the evening, it was a pleasure having you and hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
For anyone that has managed to get up to Millington throughout the Winter weather, there has been no denying that there couldnt have been a more picturesque landscape up here in the Yorkshire Wolds. My sister, Janet and brother in law David managed to capture it all on one of there walks around Millington.
Looking forward now to the Spring season, and welcoming back those put off by the weather. Good to see our cyclists back over the New Year weekend, though it became apparent that they had had to pick their routes very carefully, snow and frost still lying around to catch them out!!
I am starting on a new Spring Evening Menu and a Valentines Evening Menu, the latter which should be available to view in the next couple of weeks. Bookings have already started for February 14th, and any enquiries please do not hesitate to call us on 01759/305220.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The Ramblers’ Rest extension and Luxury Accommodation completed!!
At last, building works have been completed, our new facilities are up and running. Although we have introduced changes we very much hope that everyone who visited us this weekend liked and enjoyed our new Ramblers’ Rest. With both Open Range fires blazing away, one in the original Tea Room and the other in the extended Restaurant it was difficult to choose which room to dine in, and we felt happy that the added space made things more comfortable for a very busy weekend. It was great to see all our familiar faces back again be it on foot, cycling or by car.
We had a successful evening with the Restaurant, a private family birthday celebration, and had our first B&B booking on Sunday evening, a welcome stop for two people doing the Minster Way long distance walk.
Angela, Jeremy, Zoe and Martyn look forward to welcoming you to The Tea Room and Licensed Restaurant and perhaps you may consider a stay over in our luxury accommodation?
For further details please feel free to contact Angela 01759/305220 for restaurant and tea room information or Zoe 01759/303292 to find out more about our 4 B&B rooms.
Looking forward to completion of Ramblers Rest Building Works!
Apologies for lack of news this month to anybody that has been following the Ramblers’ Rest over the last year. There has been lots of news to tell , but not alot of time to sit down at the computer to tell it/blog it!!
On a very positive note everything is going fantastically with the extension. The Ramblers’ Rest accomodation is almost ready to fit out with carpets and furniture, already chosen. Zoe and Gerald have been really busy painting, following on from our plasterer extraordinaire, won’t mention his name he will get bashfull, he’s the one on the right below in first picture!! See also one of the 4 spacious en suite rooms that we are all really proud of, almost ready to fit out.
The Kitchen is almost completed. I tried out the ovens today with a batch of home baking. Really pleased with the result, the lads here appreciated the results also, and quote Nigel – ‘The best smell that has come out of this building site since November!’ – I jolly well hope so too!!
We are still finishing off the restaurant area and putting finishing touches to the fire place etc… We are hoping to erect a large cartwheel on the chimney breast that once upon a time formed part of a cart that transported corn and sheaves from the fields, drawn by our farm horses. Jeremys’ Dad has also been busy renovating and painting an old cake breaker that fed cattle on the farm. This will definitely appear somewhere, not sure where yet.
To finish off, just to let you know that, unfortunately, we are going to have to close the Tea Room and Restaurant after August bank holiday, until October. This is to enable us to finish building works, where we will have to knock through into the existing Tea Room. We apologise for any inconvenience and disappointment this causes but Jeremy and I, Martyn and Zoe look forward to welcoming you in October to our new Ramblers’ Rest, with more spacious, comfortable facilities and fantastic accomodation but still with the unique charm, tradition and attention to detail that we feel is the Ramblers’ Rest.
I am working on the Christmas Menu and a new Autumn Menu at the moment, which will be available from October, December Christmas bookings are filling up fast.
I will put new menus on the blog but all details will be appearing on completion of our website very soon. Please do not hesitate to contact us in the meantime for any enquiries and or bookings regarding the Restaurant, Tea Room and Accomodation 01759/305220.
Ramblers Rest Building Progress
The weather at Millington has been absolutely fantastic this weekend, great cycling and walking weather. Its amazing how the sun brings everyone out. Our delicious Brymor icecream has definitely been one of the top sellers, surprise, surprise, was panicking I would run out.
The Tea room will be open over this bank holiday, so we look forward to welcoming you, be it cycling, walking or driving. Please feel free to enquire about walks or rides if you are unfamiliar to the area.
From 4th June The Tea Room will be open from 11am Fridays and Mondays in addition to the usual weekends, and don’t forget our Private Dining Room for those get togethers with family, friends or work colleagues, where a minimum of 10 people guarantee you have the room to yourselves for the evening. Open Mon- Sat evenings.
Building work is progressing really well. Plumbing and electrical works are all going in and the last bit of roofing is being done this week. The plasterer is due to start this week also.
We are just getting an old range from the farm installed in the restaurant area, which we are chuffed to bits with, it was removed a week or so ago from the farm. Julian has renovated and even rebuilt the oven so that it will actually work. I havn’t cancelled my order for my oven in the new kitchen yet though!
We are confident that our new restaurant area and accomodation should be up and running for October. Any enquiries please feel free to contact Angela 01759/305220 and we will keep you updated.