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International Home Cooking

' The Missing Bell ' Dining Experience


Philosophy
"We are not simply in the business of being just a B&B or
even a private dinning place; they are vehicles for our real objective. We are driven by the ambition of delivering a ‘memorable experience’.

A ‘good experience’ for guests, demands exceptional service and outstanding hospitality; a ‘memorable experience’ is created by the addition of exquisite cuisine, friendship and happiness."

An evangelist for healthy, wholesome home-cooking
“It is the antidote to microwave ready meals, take-away fat, high salt content restaurant meals and moreover, good, healthy, home cooking could possibly help to combat rising obesity and diabetes. I also hope that a renaissance of healthy home-cooking could restore some of the lost benefits of family life, as generations share their meal-times together again”.

        Keiko Yamaga-White 


The Slow Food Movement

The Missing Bell is a celebration of good home cooking from around the world. Here is an opportunity to enjoy the conviviality that should accompany good food; conversation, comradeship, friendship and laughter, with our fellow humans.

Eating at The Missing Bell is an evening experience and is part of a Slow Food movement that originated in Italy in 1989 and is now spreading throughout Europe. So we source seasonal local produce wherever possible. From the enjoyment of canapés through four, five, six or even the eight courses of a Japanese banquet, to coffees afterwards, relaxing in good company with time to talk to each other, is at the heart of the experience. 

If you want to eat quickly and rush to the cinema, then our Dining Experience evenings are not suitable for you. 

If you are a family, friends, or distant relatives, that enjoy eating good food together in a convivial atmosphere, then we hope that 'The Missing Bell' is just right for you. 

So come for dinner and stay for breakfast at 'The Missing Bell' at Eastward House.  


Organic Produce
 

Our kitchen's principle source of fresh vegetables is selected from local Island producers, providing a source of fresh-from-the-earth, seasonal food with ecologically friendly, very low ‘food miles’. 

 

Fresh fish (including organically nurtured, sustainable salmon) and seafood are delivered from the Orkney Island of Westray, famous for its fishing traditions.


Eastward House grow their own baby daikon as well as green and red shiso leaves for authentic Japanese dishes. Shiso leaves (seasonal) are picked minutes before serving for real freshness
 

Shiso = (Perilla frutescens var. crispa)

We operate a salt-free kitchen.


 
Fresh, Free-Range Eggs and Freshly Cut Organic Herbs

Daily supplies of fresh eggs are supplied by the free-range chickens from Newhall Market Gardens, a short walk of just two miles away from Eastward House. 

Hmmmm  tasty!

and zero carbon food miles too!


Fillet beef, game, poultry and smoked salmon products including award wining hot smoked salmon are provided by the Orkney butchers Donaldsons.





Fresh Mackerel and other seafood delicacies including organically reared, sustainable Salmon are provided by Pierowall Fish from Westray,  the Orkney Island famous for its history of fine seafood. 









Dining Room Essentials

Silver service: Arthur Price
 
Tableware:      Denby


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