Yorkshire Wolds
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.
Springtime at The Ramblers Rest, Milllington
At last, the weather is improving. The Wolds landscape is slowly recovering frome the frosts and a green hue is emerging once more. The village will soon be awash with daffodils and Millington Wood 1/2 a mile from the Ramblers’ Rest in Millington village will soon be well worth the visit when it becomes carpeted with acenites and snowdrops and other spring flowers.
Building work for the new Restaurant and Accomodation is coming on really well. All the levels and walls to rooms on the ground floor are completed and the stud walls on the first floor showing the layout of the Bedrooms are almost all in place. Plumbers and electicians will be starting after Easter so we are busy making all important decisions re Lighting etc…
With the weather improving it is nice to see more walkers and cyclists visiting the Village and The Tea Room again, and we look forward to welcoming you over the Easter period. If you are unfamiliar with The Wolds and the Millington area please do feel free to enquire with us at The Tea Room regarding Walks, we will be happy to reccommend ‘Our Favourites!’ The Tea Room and Restaurant will be open Good Friday through to Easter Monday from 11AM serving Light Lunches. Enjoy a hearty bowl of warming Homemade Soup, a selection of Tasty Sandwiches and various Specials or spoil yourself from a selection of Fresh Homemade Cakes including Fresh Cream Scones and Meringues, Raspberry Bakewell Tart, Traditional Buttered Fruit Bread and lots more!!
We wish all our Customers a Happy Easter!