{"id":32606,"date":"2025-05-02T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=32606"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:41:33","slug":"lunch-in-the-kitchen-garden-at-the-pig-hotel-bridge-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=32606","title":{"rendered":"Lunch in the Kitchen Garden at The Pig Hotel : Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the hottest day of the year (27\u00b0 on the first of May!), we headed off to have lunch in the Kitchen Garden Restaurant in the Pig at Bridge Place<\/a> just outside Canterbury.<\/p>\n

This Pig Hotel is such a lovely place and is a\u00a0 short (but expensive) taxi ride from Canterbury<\/a> station to the picturesque village of Bridge<\/a>. There’s also a bus service from Canterbury bus station (route 17, 10 minute travel time) but be warned that the return bus service is infrequent and timings are not very reliable.<\/p>\n

\"\"Because the weather was so amazing on our visit, we decided like everyone else to sit outside on the terrace overlooking a pretty little stream and the Kitchen Garden.\u00a0 This is a\u00a0 delightful spot with the sound of birdsong and the occasional visit from a robin and blackbird. Creating a lovely ambience.<\/p>\n

We ordered from the Mid week lunch menu (\u00a332.50 for three courses). We had some extra bits including some rather delicious Truffle potatoes and a couple of glasses of wine raising the bill to \u00a3140 for two people.<\/p>\n

The food is fairly conventional, it’s well cooked using ingredients from the grounds and suppliers within a 25 mile radius (as explained on the al a carte “25 miles menu”). The wine list is good and there is an interesting selection of non alcoholic drinks. The service was excellent.<\/p>\n

Be sure to allow time for wandering around the Pig Hotel grounds and the Kitchen Garden which is the location of another outdoor eating spot called the Garden Oven that serves flatbreads.<\/p>\n

Overall the place reminded me a little bit of ‘Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons<\/a>‘. It’s a different style of food, but the stunning location is comparable.<\/p>\n

Update<\/em> : Returned for lunch on another scorching summer’s day, this time we went a la carte and enjoyed relaxing in deck chairs on the grounds and indulging in cocktails in the courtyard post lunch.<\/p>\n

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On the hottest day of the year (27\u00b0 on the first of May!), we headed off to have lunch in the Kitchen Garden Restaurant in the Pig at Bridge Place just outside Canterbury. This Pig Hotel is such a lovely place and is a\u00a0 short (but expensive) taxi ride from Canterbury station to the picturesque … Continue reading “Lunch in the Kitchen Garden at The Pig Hotel : Bridge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,8],"tags":[824],"class_list":["post-32606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kent","category-uk","tag-the-pig-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32606"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32892,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions\/32892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}