Perkins Bar & Bistro

Member offer: Offer 1: 10% off the food bill, Wednesday to Friday, for up to four diners per membership card. Book on 0115 937 3695, mention you are a member and show your card. Not to be used in conjunction with other offers. To get a card, click here (choose ‘standard’ membership). Offer 2: Dinner, bed & breakfast for two, Tuesday to Thursday (Three-course dinner with a bottle of house wine, a stay in The Great Oak shepherd’s hut, and breakfast the following morning): £260. Mention Great Food Club when booking and show your membership card on arrival. Book on 0115 9373695. To get a card, click here (choose ‘standard’ membership).

Perkins is a bar and bistro housed in a beautifully restored railway station, and has luxury accommodation opposite in the form of shepherd’s huts. The bar and bistro has a relaxed “countryside bistro” feel – somewhere you’d be equally happy to pop in for a pint and a snack or enjoy a beautiful lunch or dinner. Think rustic tables alongside bistro seating, brass light fittings and bar seats amid reclaimed textures and materials.

This unique venue, named after the family that owns it, may have been serving top quality food for over 30 years but is bang up to date. Its menus feature local produce, sharer-board starters and ‘bistro bites’ alongside main plates, daily specials and ingredients from Perkins’ own smokehouse.

Next door to Perkins Bar & Bistro is the stunning Carriage Hall, which hosts special events, dinners and weddings.