Restaurants

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Our restaurants and coffee shops are very popular and are visited regularly by many of our customers and Sage Privilege Club members. We aim to provide tempting well-prepared food, sensibly priced and served in agreeable surroundings. Come and experience our famous scones for yourself and indulge in a wide range of locally sourced produce. Refreshments are available everyday and the restaurants place great emphasis on home cooked food made on the premises. Children's meals and play packs are also available.

We hope that such facilities will complement a visit to the Garden Centre and they can also be used in their own right - free garden centre car parking makes them a convenient casual meeting point. Conveniently located, many customers find our garden centres a pleasant way to start or finish a trip to the busy town centres.

Restaurants are available at all our garden centres except Booker and Tunbridge Wells which have coffee shops. The restaurant at Maidstone is not part of the Notcutts company. At Woodford Park the Farmhouse Restaurant is waitress service and there's also Café Med.

Cottage Pie just like your mum would make!

Serves: 8

Ingredients:

1 kg	Beef Mince
375 g	Onion, finely diced
2	Carrots, diced in small cubes
1	Celery stick, finely chopped
1 litre	Beef Stock
100 ml	Red Wine
¼ bunch	fresh Thyme, tied
2 tbsp	Tomato puree
1½	Bay leaves
1 tbsp	Cornflour
	Gravy Granules to thicken if required
	Seasoning

Directions:

1. Brown mince and drain excess fat.
2. Sweat onion, carrot and celery until soft.
3. Return meat to sweated vegetables.
4. Add red wine and reduce.
5. Add bay, thyme, tomato puree and combine.
6. Add flour and mix well.
7. Add beef stock and simmer for approx 1 hour until sauce reduced and all items cooked through.
8. Adjust consistency with water to loosen or with gravy granules to thicken.
9. Season to taste.
10. Cool in low trays.
11. Remove bay and thyme.
12. Add mixture to cooking dishes and top with approximately 4cm of buttery seasoned mashed potato.
13. Sprinkle with local grated cheese and bake till golden brown on top.