What we offer…..
Come and celebrate your special occasion with us. We can accommodate virtually any event from an intimate dinner parties, to wedding receptions and corporate away days. We have several spaces available. Our flint barn is ideal for private dining, business meetings and art exhibitions ,and has its own adjoining terrace with seating. The lawn becomes the ideal wedding reception space by the addition of marquees. We understand that every event is unique as the people attending so we will work closely with you to create the best experience for you.
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18th Century Flint Barn
Our renovated flint barn is fully equipped with surround sound, projector and screen. This cozy private space is the ideal space for parties, business meetings, away-days, micro weddings or private dining. The barn can accommodate up to 28 people seated and opens directly onto a sheltered side terrace with additional seating.
Tucked away in the charming coastal village of Walberswick, The Anchor offers a subtle but elegant wedding venue for you to personalize and curate your wedding day or weekend. Working with us brings creativity, freedom and personalized design in which the creation of the menu is built with seasonality, fresh and local produce in mind. Magnums of Guilleminot champagne can be paired with an Oyster Bar, followed by canapes such as for June, mini crab cakes, whipped goats cheese crostini, wild mushroom arancini with truffle mayo, lamb koftas with cucumber raita or heirloom tomato bruschetta with basil, salt cod fritters with aioli, potato rosti with salmon and creme fraiche but truly tailored to your tastes. Champagne can carry on with a classic MIP Rosé Domaine des Diables 2023, which can be a normal or magnum bottle size. Following on, grazing boards with salami, prosciutto, Fen Farm Baron Bigod brie, crudités, Anchor hummus, focaccia, olive oil and balsamic. Following the main course with free-range chicken breast, with lemon and herbs, creamy butter beans and slow-roasted tomatoes, green beans and roasted new potatoes. Paired with Premier Cru Chablis Montmains or John Forrest Sauvingon Blanc as well as Sesti, Brunello di Montalcino Castello di Argiano or Serpaia Di Endrizzi Serpaiolo. As a palate cleanser, choose from a plated or pudding station, zesty lemon posset with mint, mini pavlovas, with whipped crème fraîche and seasonal berries, Baron Bigod brie wheel, homemade cheese biscuits, grapes and figs. To fire up the dancing, have a cocktail hour of Espresso Martinis (pick me up!) Spicy Margaritas with a chilli-salt rim for a fiery twist, as well as a Moscow Mule, vodka, ginger beer, fresh lime, giving a punch to carry on the rest of the evening, as well as draft beer such as our Schneider’s Bayrisch Hell, Adnams Ease Up IPA and the Suffolk classic Ghostship. We can provide you with a variety of cocktails, spirits, wines and beer behind a bar for the evening. Dancing can be sourced by a band or DJ, with ending the night with a late night snack of mini fish and chip boats. The next day can be breakfast of bacon rolls or a lunchtime BBQ, with homemade fresh basil pesto pasta, homemade coleslaw paired with spicy bloody marys.
Working with the ethos of sustainable, local and seasonal food and produce, we can curate menus with the help of our food suppliers which are within a 15 mile radius. When the local produce is this high in quality, it is harder to look beyond. This helps with having a minimal waste kitchen, using creativity and innovation having in mind a farm to table concept. Simply loving local, but not waste, our ethos follows the seasons and good flavour. Having our own allotment, growing 150 courgette plants, mint, green runner beans, meaning it is 150 meters from our very own kitchen, this brings the very best ingredients for you to work with and design a totally tailored menu.
From catering on the Friday evening for your close family and friends, to Sunday morning or lunchtime, we can curate menus with you for the whole weekend. After your wedding service, start of with magnums of Guilleminot champagne can be paired with an Oyster Bar, followed by canapes such as for June, mini crab cakes, whipped goats cheese crostini, wild mushroom arancini with truffle mayo, lamb koftas with cucumber raita or heirloom tomato bruschetta with basil, salt cod fritters with aioli, potato rosti with salmon and creme fraiche but truly tailored to your tastes. Starting on the back lawn after a short walk from the church to the pub, start with a classic MIP Rosé Domaine des Diables 2023. Following on, sitting down to enjoy grazing boards with salami, prosciutto, Fen Farm Baron Bigod brie, crudités, Anchor hummus, focaccia, olive oil and balsamic, home-made focaccia and bread.
Following the main course with free-range chicken breast, with lemon and herbs, creamy butter beans and slow-roasted tomatoes, green beans and roasted new potatoes. Paired with Premier Cru Chablis Montmains or John Forrest Sauvingon Blanc as well as Sesti, Brunello di Montalcino Castello di Argiano or Serpaia Di Endrizzi Serpaiolo. As a palate cleanser, choose from a plated or pudding station, zesty lemon posset with mint, mini pavlovas, with whipped crème fraîche and seasonal berries, Baron Bigod brie wheel, homemade cheese biscuits, grapes and figs. To fire up the dancing, have a cocktail hour of Espresso Martinis (pick me up!) Spicy Margaritas with a chilli-salt rim for a fiery twist, as well as a Moscow Mule, vodka, ginger beer, fresh lime, giving a punch to carry on the rest of the evening, as well as draft beer such as our Schneider’s Bayrisch Hell, Adnams Ease Up IPA and the Suffolk classic Ghostship. We can provide you with a variety of cocktails, spirits, wines and beer behind a bar for the evening.
Every element is flexible according to your tastes and preferences, whether spicy margaritas are your perfect sundowner or heirloom tomato and basil bruschetta is your favourite canapé or a palate cleanser of lemon posset with raspberry and mint garnish. If you’d like champagne and canapés in the church ruins, or an oyster bar at the wedding reception... we will make it happen!
Sophie and the kitchen team will guide you within the seasons, their skills and expertise will help you land in the very best position to offer your guests a menu that reflects your tastes and preferences. Having access and long standing relationships with our local suppliers with the very best of produce in the county who prioritize small scale, allows us to provide the baseline to bring thoughtful, imaginative and creative food to your table as well as bringing your preferences and specific style. If you wish to have canapès, starters, mains and puddings, or starters, mains and pudding tables, or just mains and puddings, it is totally your choice! The food is more than just providing a taste experience, it provides a sensory experience, engaging all five senses, which means its important to us that the presentation and flavour is just as important as each other, handled with passion and exclusivity. We offer a food tasting (price tbc) offering you to come and try a miniature version of your menu on the day, allowing you to adapt and provide feedback. Working with suppliers such as Liberty wines and Mr. Wheeler wines to supply the very best for your day.
To enhance and complement your menu, the drinks can be carefully planned and paired with your food choices. Starting the celebrations off with champagne, symbolises celebration, following on with choosing from our specialized wine lists, champagne and cocktail lists, our team can work with you to guide you with choices based on your food flavours. We can also offer a wine tasting for you to come and try a selection of wines you can have. Cocktail hour is a popular staple and often a revitaliser of the evening, coinciding with firing up the dance floor.Offering spicy margaritas, espresso martinis and smokey negroni’s, or a favourite cocktail of yours, are shaken to serve and using spirits such as Espolon Blanco Tequila can add that extra quality and precision in creating the perfect margarita, crafted from 100% of Blue Weber agave in the Highlands of Jalisco, Mexico.
