The Café at Brovey Lair
A very private place

The 2009 Good Food Guide has awarded Chef Tina Pemberton a grade six for “Exemplary cooking skills, innovative ideas, impeccable ingredients and an element of excitement.” This makes her top chef in Norfolk and The Cafe at Brovey Lair in Ovington near Watton, the county’s highest scoring restaurant. In all East Anglia she shares number one position with the celebrated Midsummer House in Cambridge and is one of only 9 women chefs featured among the Guide’s best 110 UK restaurants. For links to supporting sites view the gallery. Moving to Norfolk from London 8 years ago, she decided to take up the challenging task of opening a fish restaurant with a twist; so she prepares customised dishes, marrying the exotic spices of the Pacific Rim with flavours of the West. Watch as she cooks in front of you on the fabulous Japanese tepan grill. “We took a real risk coming to Norfolk where breaking barriers is often viewed with suspicion,” she said. “To choose pan-Asian fusion was audacious enough, but a set menu based solely on fish and seafood cooked in front of guests in a conservatory at the back of my house – well even I began to doubt my own sanity! “Persistence and passion seem to have paid off. To be rewarded with this grading after four years in the guide would not have been possible without the support and loyalty of guests who seem to love my food and keep coming back.” Before visiting the menus page you should know Tina designs a 4 course meal around your food preferences. Join her on a romantic oriental journey that in the space of three hours will take you across Europe to India, Thailand, China, Japan and the Pacific Rim. Exotic, erotic, peripatetic - call it what you will, you’ll rediscover tastes and flavours you never thought possible in Norfolk. Hedonistic and unashamedly secretive Brovey Lair is a private place where the food is orgasmic, the wines caringly selected and the overnight experience unrivalled. No kids, no dogs and no noise other than the cooing of black collared doves and Norfolk breezes gently whispering their way through eleven weeping willows. Blissfully hard to find and wickedly indulgent, once you’re there you may just want to stay for ever!

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