Our own-label beer, brewed and filtered especially for us by Schoolhouse Brewery on Yarm Lane, is going down a storm. Graham Gannaway brews a beautiful pale ale, reserving especially for us a batch that goes through a special filtering process. Rather than receiving the traditional fish filings, it passes through nine layers of paper to […]

New for 2017, we have created a new restaurant and art event for Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.  THE SMELTERY has a Slow Food ethos, where vegetables are given high status and our famous Waiting Room dishes are served alongside locally produced free range meat dish options and North Sea fish. Luke was commissioned to […]

We created a town meal for 400 people at this year’s Festival of Thrift at Kirkleatham. Our menu was based on Redcar’s history, folktales, rumours and traits – and is a follow on to a Radio 4 series The Town Is The Menu produced by Simon Preston.