In danger of becoming Little Parwich in Ashbourne, at the Horns, the Jewitts provide familiar friendly faces for those of us visiting the big city. An old Ashbourne pub on Victoria Square (known locally as the Butchery), it is at the bottom of the market place, and has over the years been extended into neighbouring shops.
They have been running it for some months now, with Richard heading up the Restaurant and son Cameron the Bar. Having gone there with Brian F for Sunday lunch, I thought I should add it to our Out and About series. The menu is traditional good cooking, with main meals served in generous helpings. We went for the Carvery, currently Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes, where you get excellent locally sourced roast meat just like mother used to make, or perhaps just like people imagine mother would or should have made. With the open fires and fellow Parwickians to chat to, it was home from home. Today there was a choice of roast beef or pork. Now all I need is an old black and white movie on the telly.
Cameron Jewitt
I am impressed that a father and son team are working so well together (though it is interesting to note that they have an intervening room between Carvery and the Bar). Asking Jo-anne if she had any mediating to do, the answer was “No they both tend to gang up on me”. Perhaps it is just as well that she is developing her own independent business interests.
Richard Jewitt
Rob and I have had some fantastic meals at the Horns. The atmosphere and service is great. I would recommend it! For the non-veggies the rib of beef off the carvery is always excellent; even the chips are not just your average chip!
My favourite part of the menu is the cheesed off chiken and obviously the scrummy chocolate cake is extremly scrummy.
Just come back from another excellent Sunday lunch here. I had the roast pork. The quality of the meat as always was excellent, locally sourced and organic.
l have just returned home after enjoying another fantastic meal in the Horns ,
l started with a revisit to the old favorite king prawn platter a remake of prawn cocktail-served in a giant shell with a brandy paprika sauce,my wife had home made pate made by Jo-anne whoops! it was the best pate l have ever tasted.
To follow l had the Highland steak , sirlion topped with haggis and then a red @ black peppercorn sauce , cooked med rare it was perfect then topped with deep fried leeks..my wife enjoyed a whole sea bass, baked with lemon butter.
the veg was fresh and unusual in that l have never had toffee parsnips before along with fresh broccolli and carrots.
The chip’s were amazing home made , huge and cooked in beef dripping. We had no room for pud , but the very attentive waitress persuaded us to take a portion of sticky toffee home made cake which we devoured later on our return home.
We had a lovely bottle of Fleurie and a glass of ice cold chablis each with our starter,we took the rest of the bottle home to enjoy with our cake…
Highly reccomended,
Gordon ?
Here Here Gordon !!
l’ve just had a great meal at the Horns as well…l had the garlic butter king prawn’s followed by 16oz T.bone the meat is sourced locally from Tissington ,all organic and free range , that will please Jaimie !!!
Funny you should say that Raymond …l was in the Horns last week and commented on the cheesed off chicken…chicken breast ,stuffed with cheese wrapped in smoked bacon ”topped with BBQ sauce and cheese then baked ,,free range and organic ..fantastic..that should please Delia…
Amazing that we all eat in the Horns, not that l would speak to any of you if l saw you but we all enjoy good home cooking ….l had the crab claws followed by fishermans pie…huge chunks of cod , salmon and king prawns in a cheese and parsely sauce , topped with piped fresh mash and shrimp..with a lovely fresh salad.
All very healthy…that should please…..AWT
No only is it fabulous at how many well known personalities are eating at The Horns, but how wonderful that so many famous people are reading & contributing to our blog.
Jane, yes it’s great we have all these truly famous people (Emma S, Shannon J and Peter T) checking out PARWICH.ORG, but who are all the others?
Wow!
Visited the horns this sunday, never had a carvery like it!
Fantastic service from a lady called Theresa, food was out of this world!! Locally sourced from Tissington, top quality, fresh vegetables, excellent yorkshire puds (made by Jo-anne) relaxing surroundings, can’t find fault with this establishment!! Thanks Theresa for a most pleasurable experience, we will be visiting you soon and looking forward to the Tiramisu as promised, love homemade puds!!
Just had a super late carvery lunch at The Horns and thoroughly enjoyed it, delicious local meat and plenty of it. It is great that on a Sunday you can eat anytime between 12pm and 4pm; so I haven’t had to think about lunch or dinner having eaten at 3.30.
Had a lovely sunday carvery today, we eat out a lot & have been to many places, can honestly say that nowhere can match the quality of the food served at the Horns, well done to all involved.
we stumbled accross the horns on our first visit to Ashbourne. I was initially against going in as I do not usually enjoy carverys’, however we found the food to be excellent, locally sourced organic beef is fantastic, so good in fact we got the butchers address and bought a load to take back home.
We have visited Parwich a couple of times now and I must admit we always go to the horns on sunday, in fact we go there for about 3-4 meals during a 1 week stay. Richard (the chef) knows how to cook not bad for a hetton lad !!! We are due in the summer again and no doubt will be poppping in several times working our way through the menu.
Cant wait for the summer
cheers