Join us in celebrating the late summer harvest with a special supper at Open House, by local chef John Parsons! John will be serving a collection of small plates, flavours and textures, celebrating the best of seasonal, locally grown vegetables from our 10 Trees kitchen garden in Bamford.
Our pop-up cocktail and mocktail bar will also be open, serving seasonal ‘blackberry bramble’ collins cocktails, beer, wine and more.
About this event:
Date - From 6.30pm on Friday, 12th September.
Timing - Doors open for drinks at 6.30pm, dinner will be served at 7pm.
Price - £42 per person.
Location - Downstairs @ Open House.
Booking - Limited to 50 spots, to book your spot please click below.
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The Open House team first met John Parsons when we opened our kitchen a year and a half ago, through our kitchen manager Maria McCaffrey. Maria had worked with John previously at The Sir William, a historic inn in Grindleford, and had only the highest praise for his cooking as a chef there.
John is local to Hope Valley and has built up a solid reputation and loyal following during his many years as a chef, working in a variety of establishments across Sheffield and North Derbyshire including The Anglers Rest, Sheffield’s Food and Fine Wine, The Beer Engine, The Kitchen on Ecclesall Road, Breedon Cement Works Canteen and The Hathersage Social Club.
Almost everyone you speak to locally knows of John Parsons and raves about his cooking, and it’s easy to see why - his food is creative and refined but not at all fussy, a mix of French classical with British traditional pub grub, using local ingredients with global flavours and cooking styles.
We recently had the chance to see John in action in our kitchen at Open House, cooking an incredible Yorkshire-themed feasting table for a private event, and we’re delighted to have him back again for a kitchen takeover.
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10 Trees garden is a 2.5 acre garden in Bamford in the Peak District, which was created by a local man Richard Bardell in 2008 for the simple joy of gardens. Ten old sycamores fringe the garden, which is a blend of naturalised grasses, trees and wildflowers peppered with grass pathways and beautiful cultivated flower beds. From the lawn and through the walnut trees, there are striking views of Bamford Edge to the East and Win Hill to the West.
Today, 10 Trees is a garden co-created with the community, for the community, part of Dark Peak Soul's emerging network of gathering and growing spaces across the Hope Valley. It shares with Open House community kitchen in Hathersage the ethos of offering space for the local community to gather, to nourish themselves and each other naturally, and to feel at home.
For those that want to get their hands dirty, a kitchen garden, established orchard, compost stations, perennial flower borders and a forest garden which invite learning, play and practice. This is a place not just for producing amazing food and working out what grows well in our valley community, but for understanding our kinship with the planet and finding the connections between our inside and outside worlds, and with each other.
Along the meandering paths, in quiet woodland glades and around the fire pit there is room for both conversation and private reflection, for art and for therapeutic exchanges, and most importantly for regenerating our sense of whole-being.
Some days, exchanges and events will be curated by us, for you. Other days the community will come together to gather in the harvest, tend to the wild spaces or work together on bigger projects like a polytunnel. And then some days, you might just want the space to ‘be’, alongside each other and this precious world.
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Vegan menu option available mirroring all the flavours and textures. Please let us know if you have any other food allergies or intolerances we should know about, and we will do our best to cater for your needs.