Bramble restaurant by candlelight, with a spaniel under a table

Eat & drink

Bramble is named after the Wagstaffs' first dog, a wire-haired dachshund who supervised the building work. The restaurant is open to hotel guests and everyone else. Dogs are welcome at every table.

Bramble

The restaurant

Head chef Sam Okafor cooks a short menu that changes with the season, using farms in Cheshire, Lancashire and the Ribble Valley. Breakfast is served until eleven at weekends.

Breakfast7 – 10.30am
Lunch12 – 2.30pm, Thu – Sun
Dinner6 – 9.30pm
Sunday lunch12 – 4pm
Reserve a table
A chocolate labrador asleep by the fire in the bar

4pm until late

The Bar

Leather chairs, a stone fireplace and a short list of cocktails, local beer and wine by the glass. Dogs tend to take the hearth rug. Small plates from the kitchen until ten.

A calm spa treatment room

Lower ground floor

The Spa

Two treatment rooms and a steam room. If you book a treatment for the same time as a Parlour appointment, the two of you will be done at roughly the same time.

Massage from £75. Facials from £70.

Letters from Wagstaff

New hotels, seasonal menus and the occasional dog of the month. Four times a year.