Roots and Seeds Kitchen Garden to open in Gloucestershire

Roots and Seeds Kitchen Garden has announced its opening at The Old Kennels in Cirencester, Gloucestershire on 7 April 2023.

The new restaurant is an all-day cafe restaurant with its own on-site kitchen garden and a newly-built dining space with 54 covers.

Head chef, Sam Idione, will showcase Cotswolds artisan produce from within a 25-mile radius on his Modern British menus with “creative” French touches, alongside fruit and vegetables grown at the on-site kitchen garden.

A full bar will serve seasonally changing gin cocktails, English and Old and New World wines and beers produced next door by Corinium Ales and Hook Norton Brewery ciders.

The single-storey building has larch-clad exterior walls, and inside, vaulted ceilings and windows overlooking the kitchen garden and the surrounding Grade 1 listed landscape of Cirencester Park.

The cafe restaurant space will be furnished in “chic rustic industrial style” with scrubbed farmhouse tables, oversized pendant lights and on the walls, vintage garden tool displays.

With the focus on sustainability and creating a sense of community, the Roots and Seeds Kitchen Garden will supply fresh produce daily for the restaurant and will also be used as a welcoming community space open to all on Saturdays for talks with Toby Baggott about growing your own, and for local school children, volunteers and charities during the week.