Island Life Magazine Ltd June/July 2012 | Page 136

FOOD

New look for Essex Cottage
Fine home-cooked food, excellent service and

fish and meat every day, and all our food is

evenings. The outside facilities include a

a warm, friendly atmosphere provide the ideal

freshly prepared and cooked in our kitchen.

courtyard and a decking area on different

ingredients for the perfect restaurant.

We also try to use local produce whenever

levels, complemented with comfortable new

possible.”

furniture.

That can certainly be said of the new-look
Essex Cottage, Godshill, which has recently

Teri said: “Hopefully that will enable us to

duties with preparing mouth-watering sweets

have regular summer barbecue evenings,

vivacious owner Teri Wood.

and puddings, and also cooks some of the

and also have the facility for an outside bar

excellent specials that are on offer, alongside

as well.”

Teri’s plan was to work on what had already
been carried out at the Essex Cottage,

head chef Dean Taylor. Dean has already

and then fine-tune it to her ideas, including

introduced some of his own ideas to the

making it more accessible to families, and

menu, and they been very well received.

providing a high class service.
The Essex, which claims to have a

The Essex also has a fine selection of beers
and wines to complement the food, including

history stretching back 1,000 years, opens

draught lager, draught cider and draught

at 10.30am each day for coffees, scones

beer, European and Island Ales bottled beers,

teacakes and patisseries. Meals are served

as well as red, rose and white wines.

from midday through to last orders, which

The restaurant also welcomes enquiries

extend until 9.0pm throughout the summer

for special occasions such as birthdays or

months, and are up to 8.0pm in winter. There

wedding anniversaries, and hopes to attract

is an extensive menu from which to choose

local businesses and associations for coffee

your food, as well as a tempting specials

mornings, lunch and evening meals and

board.

meetings.

Teri, who is helped front of house by her
daughter Jenna, said: “We have a delivery of

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Workaholic Teri combines her front of house

been taken over and transformed by

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The Essex has around 50 covers inside, and
a further 50 outside for those warm summer

For further details and bookings enquiries
call Teri Wood on 01983-840909.