Easter offers one of the biggest trading opportunites of the year for pubs, especially when the weather is fine.
Offering a seasonally-driven menu at the Rat Inn, Anick, Northumberland includes diversifying for special events, with novelty items such as Creme Egg brownies on this year’s Easter menu. A picture of last year’s Easter brownie is still one of the pub’s most popular Facebook posts and many customers requested takeaways. Served with ice-cream at £4.50 or at £3 as a takeaway, the novelty brownies quickly sell out and are expected to exceed the 75 sold in a week at Easter last year.
Chocolate specials
Well-known for its Easter focus, the Inn at Farnborough near Banbury, Oxfordshire, is reaching out to the whole family with diverse offers. The pub’s Good Friday five-course fish feast will be available for lunch and dinner alongside the à la carte menu. Chocolate treats will finish off Easter Sunday lunch and a free Easter egg hunt will be organised for all child diners. On the same evening, the menu will include a steak and chocolate special, with live music in the bar from the Applejack Duo.
Happy bunnies
Appealing to young appetites and adult budgets, Sizzling Pubs is inviting kids to eat a child’s main course free at Sizzling Pubs during Easter school holidays if parents download a free voucher, which applies to each adult main meal purchased up to a maximum of six. The offer is available from midday to 9pm and runs from Saturday 31 March to Sunday 15 April inclusive.
Church on Sunday
Tickets for the Easter party at the Church party bar, close to south-east London’s Elephant & Castle and owned by the Sunday Events Company, are selling well via Eventbrite. The venue’s unusual Sunday afternoon party events start at midday and last until 4pm. Tickets cost £12 (plus 95p booking fee) and beer tickets costing £12 for three canned drinks or £4 for one drink promote efficiency when serving the anticipated 2000-strong crowd, especially in the first hour, when 70% of attendees – many in fancy dress – arrive for the show.