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Tom Kerridge to open butcher-pub hybrid in Marlow this week
Michelin-awarded TV chef Tom Kerridge is set to open his third gastropub on Friday.
Tom Kerridge is famous as being the first pub chef to be awarded two Michelin stars (Photo: BBC)
The new venture — The Butcher’s Tap in Marlow, Buckinghamshire — will also operate as a butchery as part of the celebrity chef’s third collaboration with pub chain Greene King.
The Butcher’s Tap will be Kerridge’s third Greene King pub sitting alongside The Coach, and the two Michelin-starred Hand and Flowers, both in Marlow.
The site will operate as a butcher’s and bar all day until 5pm, when the venue will transform into a gastropub in keeping with Kerridge’s restaurant portfolio, with a menu focusing on quality cuts of meat.
Kerridge is teaming up with friend and butcher Andy Cook, who has supplied Michelin-starred gastropub Hand and Flowers for the last decade.
In a statement released last month, Kerridge said he’s determined to position The Butcher’s Tap as the “heart and soul of Marlow.”
“Somewhere you can pop in every week for your usual order that we’ll have ready for you, but also a place you can have a pint and a hot pork pie straight out of the oven.”
Dishes will include British classics such as braised faggots and hot-pots, homemade pies, scotch eggs and sausage rolls, while the bar will stock a highly curated selection of real ales, lagers and spirits, with a small but seasonally-changing wine list.
The new hybrid pub comes as Greene King says it will look at more joint venture concepts in the future. The pub giant’s partnerships devision is planning to forge relationships and collaborations with entrepreneurs across the UK over the next few years.
Clive Chesser, managing director of Greene King partnerships, said: “We have enjoyed a long and rewarding partnership with Tom Kerridge that has seen the Hand & Flowers in Marlow go from strength to strength and I cannot think of a better partner with whom to launch our joint venture programme.”
Kerridge is perhaps best-known for being the first pub chef to be awarded two Michelin stars.
The Hand and Flowers, which Kerridge opened in 2005, won its first Michelin star less than a year after opening, and gained a second in 2011 for its unusual flavour combinations using seasonal British produce.