The New Inn in Sidley, East Sussex, relaunches its kitchen on January 11 2024

The new head chef Kim Duke explains more.

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00:00 I know Lewis through my partner and we became great friends. He offered me this opportunity

00:11 to run the pub. I am a published author with a couple of cookbooks under my belt and I

00:17 run an organisation called Life Kitchen which is supported by Nigella Lawson and a lot of

00:21 other great chefs and we teach people who are living with cancer how to enjoy food again

00:26 through the science of flavour. So my plan is to create a menu here that's super flavourful,

00:32 super interesting and hopefully to get people from outside of Sidley and the people of Sidley

00:37 to come back to the pub. So the kitchen used to be a storeroom. There's been a few chefs

00:41 before me so it does look more a bit like a kitchen now but we are having a big clear

00:48 out and a massive organise to try and get it to be a lovely functional kitchen space

00:53 now. We really want the pub to become a destination spot, somewhere that's worth travelling to.

00:59 The building itself has so much history and it's a beautiful building, it's a beautiful

01:04 pub and Lewis and Zoe who are the landlords are both incredibly friendly people who create

01:10 a lovely atmosphere and what we just want to do is bring a community feel to the pub

01:16 again and serve the people of Sidley and the wider people of Sussex and give them something

01:22 lovely to enjoy in their community. I love food that's super flavourful, really interesting.

01:31 My background is in East Asian food and South East Asian food so there will be some of that

01:36 influence there but I've also done some of the great pubs in London. I worked at the

01:41 Royal Oak in the centre of London which is a really traditional pub so we'll see some

01:45 of those influences as well. So we're opening the kitchen on Thursday the 11th of January.

01:52 We'll be open Thursday to Sunday, we'll be doing our normal menu Thursday through to

01:57 Saturday and then Sunday roast menu on a Sunday.

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