Jun22596 10 | LUXlife Magazine - Restaurant & Bar Awards 2023 Food is at the heart of The Smokehouse. This is why, first and foremost, it strives to serve excellent food both in flavour and in freshness. Using smokers imported from the USA, the kitchen smokes through the night, ensuring meat is fresh and ready each morning for the day’s service. Furthermore, all burgers are prepared based on The Smokehouse’s own unique recipe, freshly pressed by the local family-run butchers and delivered every day. All the restaurant’s succulent meats are cooked with signature recipe rubs, meaning they’re guaranteed to be packed full of flavour. The kitchen staff are continuously learning and frequently come up with new recipes to try out. With an extensive menu featuring a range of meaty feasts as well as vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, The Smokehouse aims to cater to all ages, tastes, and dietary requirements. The restaurant has also recently introduced a cocktail menu, featuring lots of fun and unique concoctions, alongside its impressive selection of lagers, ales, ciders, gins, wines, rums, and soft drinks. To ensure all drinks are of the best quality possible, the management team works hard to maintain an excellent standard in the cellar. Customers often say The Smokehouse’s Guinness is the best in town. Throughout the summer, The Smokehouse invites customers to relax in its outdoor smoke yard, with live bands performing on Friday and Saturday nights and an acoustic singer on Sunday afternoons. With a great atmosphere created by live music, the smoke yard is the perfect place to spend your summer evenings. The restaurant also boasts plenty of on-site parking, a children’s play area, and a variety of old American cars, making it a great location for parents to bring their children for a fun evening in the school holidays. It even has a monster truck, which is great for photos with the kids. On Thursdays, The Smokehouse also hosts its renowned bike meet between 5pm and 9pm. This family friendly event includes a barbeque, an outside bar, a live band, and plenty of beautiful bikes to look at. Anyone is welcome to join the fun! All scheduled live events can be found on The Smokehouse website, with something to do every week between May and September. As well as high-quality, fresh, and delicious food, The Smokehouse is dedicated to delivering the best customer service possible. To Jan23736 Most Family-Friendly Smokehouse Restaurant 2023 - Norfolk Since 2018, The Smokehouse has worked hard to establish itself as the region’s go-to family smokehouse restaurant, offering a range of home-cooked and in-house smoked meals. Whether you’re looking to enjoy a family dinner with the kids, a fun outing with your significant other, or an evening out with all your friends, The Smokehouse is the perfect place to go. Customers can relax in the vibrant, lively atmosphere and indulge in a hearty, flavourful meal. ensure staff are equipped to deliver excellence in their interactions with customers, the restaurant provides a comprehensive training programme to new hires. As well as this, The Smokehouse strives to create a fun, positive, and energetic work environment for all employees. If staff feel good at work and love their job, this will be reflected in the quality of service they provide. The team love to make customers happy and are always delighted to receive good feedback, but they also appreciate suggestions for how they could improve their service. In the hiring process, The Smokehouse believes that everyone deserves a chance. The restaurant offers opportunity to anyone willing to work, no matter their background. For example, it has hired people who have dropped out of school and are now completing a widely recognised apprenticeship programme. Additionally, it has employed people in the past who have had nowhere to live, allowing them to live on the premises, work, and obtain qualifications. Many of these people have grown into outstanding members of staff. This is a testament to the fact that people should not be judged based on their background. Some people just need a bit of support, understanding, and education to excel. While they may not always be suited for the role in the end, it is important that everyone is given a fair chance. People and community are both incredibly important to The Smokehouse. Based in the beautiful village of Ormesby Saint Margaret, the restaurant is committed to giving back to its local community. Currently, the team is organising charity fundraisers to support Caister Lifeboat, an independent organisation dedicated to saving lives at sea, in particular the Annette Thurlow appeal. Annette was a wonderful, caring lady who sadly passed away in 2018 at the young age of 58 years old. After a 30-year long career in nursing, Annette wished to be an organ donor in the event of her death. Unfortunately, this was not possible due to difficulty identifying her cause of death. Between 1991 and 2004, Annette played a big role in supported her husband, Dick Thurlow, through his 13 years as Coxswain of Caister Lifeboat, and even encouraged her sons to join the crew. In 2023, Caister Lifeboat are getting a new state-of-the-art lifeboat, and Annette’s family aim to raise enough money for the cause to request that the new lifeboat is named ‘Annette Thurlow’. Her family believe this is a fitting
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