Garry and Teresa Cook are the landlords of the Crown Inn taking over from the previous tenant in December 2007
Garry, originally from Northumberland is a chef of the highest calibre with over 25 years experience having worked previously in some of the best known country house hotels in the UK including Hintlesham Hall near Ipswich, Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire, The Lygon Arms in Worcestershire, and Hanbury manor in Hertfordshire and was previously chef directer of 152 in Aldeburgh where he acheived recognition for his cooking with entries in all the major food guides. He is recently married to wife Teresa whom can list chef, florist, cake decorator and smallholder amongst her many talents as well as being the landlady of the Crown. They are supported by their small team of local friendly multi tasking staff.
At the Crown the emphasis is on the food. We unlike many other establishments who make wild claims of provenance and don’t back it up with what they put on the menu, know exactly where our produce comes from. Did you know… most of the meat on our menu is reared by us at the crown this includes quails, geese chickens ducks turkeys Suffolk lamb, rare breed pigs and Anglo Nubian goats. Our limousin beef is sourced From David and Karen Black at Crag Farm in Sudbourne which has achieved “red tractor assured food standards” status. The fields behind the pub are registered to us with a cph number etc and we also have fields in Orford. We feed and care for our animals so they are in prime condition before we personally take them to JH Lamberts in Bungay to be slaughtered. They are then sent to C&K Meats in Eye so the carcasses can be broken down into primal joints to our specification before being delivered back to the crown where we will then butcher the primal joints to what ever we require. We believe that by using the whole animal we are giving our customers something you cannot find anywhere else.
Also we source most of our fish direct from local fisherman in Orford, We grow produce for the kitchen on our allotment in Orford and we even forage for wild ingredients when in season.
We use game shot at Campsea Ashe
We have a selection of homemade preserves and chutneys for sale at the pub.
We sell some of our home reared meats at Orford country market which is held in the town hall every Saturday morning.
On the last Thursday evening of every month we have Traditional Suffolk folk music with the Alde boys and friends.
We are proud to be co sponsors and support our newly formed local football team Snape FC.
