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We are very excited to be welcoming The Private Pasta Club, a pop-up restaurant by Ed Barrow, the creator of The Monday Pasta Club. Consisting of a four-course set menu, the food will have an Italian influence but with a focus on West Country ingredients. Showcasing the best seasonal & local produce we have here in the southwest.
We are very excited to be welcoming The Private Pasta Club, a pop-up restaurant by Ed Barrow, the creator of The Monday Pasta Club. Consisting of a four-course set menu, the food will have an Italian influence but with a focus on West Country ingredients. Showcasing the best seasonal & local produce we have here in the southwest.
Nutritionist & author of The Happy Hormone Cookbook , Emma Ellice-Flint joins us at The Forge for a relaxed vegan lunch and a Q&A on gut health. Expect a selection of delicious dishes designed for health, healing and overall wellbeing and to leave inspired to create these simple, tasty & gut-healthy dishes at home.
Please join us for a hands-on course in the company of professional Food Photographer Kirstie Young and gain knowledge, skills and insider tips to style and shoot beautiful photographs of food.
The first of our 2020 pop up supper clubs we are welcoming back Bath’s much loved Acorn restaurant.
Acorn Vegetarian Kitchen started life with the simple idea of providing plant-based food, perfectly. This means plants, in their own right at the centre of the plate and stars of the show.
Yoga Brunch Club founder Clem Balfour together with El Kemp founder of Kemp Kitchen invite you to join them for a restorative and calming Sunday to ease your way into the New Year.
Enjoy a relaxing morning yoga restorative session led by Clem, teaching with wonderful infectious energy, Clem encourages her students to find a personal practice in each class and to strive towards moving in a way that feels good rather than looks good. The yoga class will be followed by a three-course sit-down brunch prepared by London based cook and food lover El Kemp.
Perhaps you woke up one morning wondering where the person you used to be had gone? You used to have plenty of energy, had an upbeat outlook on life, a healthy weight and felt refreshed when you woke up? These can all potential be symptoms caused by hormone imbalance. Join nutritionalist & chef Emma Ellice-Flint for an evening cooking demonstration learning all about foods that help with hormone balance.
Clem Balfour founder of Yoga Brunch Club together with Aine Carlin, author of popular vegan cookbooks ‘The New Vegan’ and latest release ‘Cook, Share, Eat, Vegan’, invite you to join them for a morning of yoga and brunch at the calming and beautiful space at The Forge. I am delighted to be welcoming Aine back to collaborate for another Yoga Brunch Club after our last sell out event, she will be travelling up specially from Penzance to cook for us!
The first of our autumn pop up supper clubs we are welcoming Bath’s much loved Acorn restaurant.
Rich Buckley and the team from Michelin listed Acorn will be serving up a seasonal six-course menu made up of plant-based classics, new creations and dishes from his book 'Plants Taste Better'.
Acorn Vegetarian Kitchen started life with the simple idea of providing plant-based food, perfectly. This means plants, in their own right at the centre of the plate and stars of the show.
Clem Balfour founder of Yoga Brunch Club together with Anna Shepherd, invite you to join them for a very special summer evening of yoga and supper at the beautiful and tranquil space at The Forge. Enjoy a energising and calming evening yoga class led by Clem Balfour, founder of Yoga Brunch Club. Clem’s classes are creative, playful and dynamic, teaching with a wonderful infectious energy. Post yoga guests will be treated to a glass of bubbles and well-deserved 3-course summer inspired supper prepared by Bristol based food writer, stylist and cook Anna Shepherd. Anna has worked on a range of vegetarian food projects, from writing cookbooks, to cooking and styling food shoots for The Telegraph Magazine and Whole Earth nut butters.
Join us for a pop up event from Gutsy plus guest speakers and experts. Gutsy events shed light on some of the key concepts in gut health, inspiring you to take a fresher and more informed approach to your own wellbeing
Have you been interested in fermentation for a while but don’t know where to start? Ever wondered if the probiotic drink you buy has any real benefits to your health? Perhaps you are scared to try probiotic or fermented foods?
We’d love you to join us for this pop up charity event from our friends at Children of Masindi
“ We invite you to join us and Psychopomp Distillery for an evening of Gin Tastings. The evening is a fabulous opportunity for us to raise funds for the charity. All funds raised are to help the children based in Masindi, Uganda.”
This Autumn we are delighted to welcome Hannah Thomas, founder of ‘Herbs and Wild’ Supper Club, currently a chef at the much loved Ethicurian, to share the food she is passionate about cooking. Her second supperclub will be an exploration of unusual herbs and wild foods available in the British autumn season.
Come and find some inner space and calm as you flow through a deep and dynamic practice in the beautiful surroundings of the Forge, and then refuel with a delicious brunch. This month Yoga Brunch Club and Dela are teaming up to bring you a morning of vinyasa yoga and great food.
As part of Bristol food connection festival we'd love you to join us for an afternoon discovering the delicious joys of making & eating chinese dumpling with 90 Food Lab, a non-profit social enterprise striving to be the best at serving and spreading fresh, healthy, environmental friendly, and authentic Chinese classic cuisines and street food in Bristol.
Much loved London supper club duo Cook & Baker are bringing their beautiful, candle-lit banquet tables to Bristol for the very first time. With each of their events based on a city or place they have travelled to together, this June they are celebrating the beauty of our very own English countryside here at The Forge.
Join us for the UK launch of Emma's Vitality. A special cooking event, where recipes will be showcased from her Vitality Programme - a hormone balancing, anti-inflammatory diet that focuses on the body’s natural detoxification pathways to eliminate toxins which cause the imbalance and fire the inflammation... basically, it’s all about trying to get rid of the bad stuff and supporting the good stuff.
We are delighted to be welcoming back our friends from Sisterhood this March. Sisterhood was the very first event at the Forge when we opened so we are really happy to have Lou & the talented women of the sisterhood team here again. Sisterhood run retreats, supper & workshops for women.
Following on from Sisterhood's successful London event in January, they are bringing the same event to Bristol. The day will be spent learning the Japanese art of Ikebana, taught by the very talented Erin Trezise-Wallace. A sumptuous lunch cooked by Sisterhood chef and food writer, Claire Thomson.
The A Tavola team are back at The Forge on Sunday March 11th, Mothering Sunday, for three sittings throughout the afternoon and evening, serving a set three course menu to our guests. We will be showcasing some excellent wines to buy by the glass from Vinnaturo, straight from Tom's fantastic new eco friendly keg system. There will also be Italian natural wines available to buy by the bottle too.
As part of Tamay's first visit to the UK join us for an evening at the Forge.
Tamay tells her story : her culture, the textiles, the future ...
This will be an engaging visual feast, we are going to take you travelling to the North Vietnamese mountains to discuss indigo, embroidery, living sustainably the Dzao way, ethical fashion and the importance of artisans in that conversation.
The evening also includes,
A Pho, noodle soup, dinner with handmade fresh Vietnamese spring rolls
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We are delighted to be welcoming Max and Steph aka "A Tavola, who will be hosting an Autumn gathering here at the Forge. Join us at the table for an evening of rustic regional Italian food and natural wine. Bring friends and make new ones and celebrate the simple pleasure of food, wine and good conversation.
A Tavola are back at The Forge, hosting a lunch focused on fresh seafood, and as always serving selected Italian natural wines and house made aperitivi. Ticket price includes a five course lunch along with a welcome drink.
