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Seasonal • Local • Foraged • PlantBased
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08/06/2026

We’re Hosting a Celebration for the Summer Solstice ✨🌞🌿

To celebrate the height of Summer in all its glory, we will be a hosting a Solstice celebration featuring some wonderful local musicians including the very talented Spanish Guitarist - Mark Barnwell

We will be serving a delicious Mediterranean Barbecue, featuring dishes from Matt’s Turkish heritage, an array of wonderful Salads, Dessert and some very special Canapés on arrival

A quick summary of the details:

⌚️ 6-7pm arrival (11:30pm curfew)
📍 Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall, Taunton
🥘 Canapés & BBQ, Salad Bar + Dessert
🥂 Bring your own
🎶 Live Music
🔥 Fire pit
🌳 Indoor & Outdoor seating

£35pp

✨Bookings live on our Website now!www.thevelvetgarden.co.uk/events
Limited space available
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07/06/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for our Early Summer Menu

It was magical to celebrate the return of warmth, light and growth with so many like minded people.

Offerings of Honeysuckle, Cow Parsley and Oxeye Daisy set the scene. Lit with flickers of candlelight, we welcomed home hedgerow favourites such as Elderflower, alongside locally grown new season fruits and vegetables - Asparagus, Pak Choi, Fennel & Strawberries.
We’ve been blessed to be able to include more of our homegrown plants than ever on this menu, with beautiful mixed wild salad and so many herbs!

Thank you so much to our amazing local suppliers and growers, supplying and producing sustainable food that puts nature protection in centre focus 💚

Ray's Veg
📍Taunton Farmer’s Market - Thursdays
📍Wiveliscombe Farmer’s Market - Saturdays

Lesser Litter
📍11 Paul St, Taunton

Nynehead Fruit Farm
📍East Nynehead, Wellington

We’re making plans for our next Tasting Menu celebrating the Mid Summer in all her Glory 🌿

Details will be with you soon
Join our mailing list to be the first to hear ✨
Thevelvetgarden.co.uk
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01/06/2026

Elderflower Cheesecake, Macerated Strawberries, Strawberry purée
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The Early Summer has brought us many beautiful things, including the return of both Elderflower & Strawberries. The synchronicity of these two plants explains their dream-like pairing.

Locally foraged Elderflowers & Strawberries grown lovingly from our local
Nynehead Fruit Farm,
Somerset

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29/05/2026

✨🌞Summer Brunch Event

Join us on Sunday June 14th for our Summer Sunday Brunch

Gather in the magical 14th century Tythe barn set in the quaint village of Fitzhead to enjoy a Sunday Brunch created from the finest local produce, supporting local organic food systems and celebrating what’s in season right now in south west Somerset

🍓Seasonal Juice

☕️ Choice of Tea/ Coffee

🍴Seasonal Brunch with locally baked bread

🌿Foraged & Homegrown Herbal Digestive Tea

Head to our website to book
Thevelvetgarden.co.uk/events
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22/05/2026

Asparagus, Hollandaise, ‘bacon’
black salt, chive oil, chive flowers

The First Course from our Early Summer 5-Course Tasting menu

Celebrating the new season with vibrant local produce, homegrown herbs and hedgerow delicacies
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There’s one date left for this menu -
Friday 29th May

To join us, head to our website
Thevelvetgarden.co.uk/events
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15/05/2026

✨Our Early Summer Menu launches this weekend!

Join us as we embark into the Early Summer with a journey through 5 Courses, each starring locally grown, homegrown and foraged produce.
Crafting an ode to what’s in season here, right now in South West England

We can’t wait to share our new menu with you all
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Next available date: Friday 22nd May
📍The Victoria Rooms, Milverton

Head to our website to book
Thevelvetgarden.co.uk/events (Link in Bio)
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11/05/2026

The Salad patch is blooming in our Restaurant garden! It’s such a blessing at this time of year to stroll through the vibrant leaves with kisses of dappled light

These are ‘Lettuce - Wild Garden Mix’ from Vital Seeds
Who produce incredible, organic, open pollinated seeds in the beautiful Devon countryside

We’ll be using these mixed lettuce varieties on our Early Summer menu ~
✨Tickets available on our website (Link in Bio)
Launching this weekend

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03/05/2026

Last Sunday we hosted our first ever Sunday Brunch

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Milverton
And for all the wonderful feedback.
We throughly enjoyed creating a brunch that was a real example of the best of Spring’s Produce
Followed by a gentle Herbal Digestive tea, gathered from around our restaurant garden
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We’re making plans for our Summer Brunch event, details of which to be released soon ✨
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02/05/2026

✨Join us for a culinary exploration of the British Early Summer - The season of Fertility and Growth brings a wonderful array of produce - grown locally, gathered from the hedgerows and picked from our very own restaurant garden.
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5 Courses
Bring your own drinks
Natural, informal Dining experience

Dates are limited
Head to our website to book your place
Thevelvetgarden.co.uk/events
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30/04/2026

✨New Dates Now available on our website✨

The hedgerows are blooming. Leaves gleam a vibrant, youthful green. Growth is all around us.
It’s the Early Summer, the season of fertility, with it comes so much fresh new produce -greens, herbs, fruits as well as some wonderful wild foods & flowers to introduce to our new, 5-Course Tasting Menu.

🌿Saturday 16th May - Tythe Barn, Fitzhead

🌿Friday 22nd May - The Victoria Rooms, Milverton

🌿Friday 29th May - The Memorial Hall, Cheddon Fitzpaine

To feast with us this season head to our website www.Thevelvetgarden.co.uk/events

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