Are you looking for a venue to hold your Christmas Party?   Alveston House Hotel has provided the perfect venue for 100’s of office Christmas Parties and Christmas Lunches north of Bristol.  Situated just off the M4/M5 motorways we are easy to find and have plenty of free car parking.
Alveston House Hotel Christmas Parties include a delicious 3 course [...]

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Head chef Ben Halliday spent time with a local pre-school recently, teaching groups of 3 & 4 year olds some tricks of the trade.
Ben arrived at Covey Pre-School armed with loaves of white bread, forest berries and moulds to pass on his secrets on how to make a great Summer Pudding.
The tots were gathered in [...]

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 Have you booked your Christmas Party yet? 
We know its still July but already we have been inundated with requests for details of our Christmas Party Nights, Christmas Lunches, Christmas Day Lunch and New Years Eve Gala Dinner.
We would like to give our newsletter readers a special ‘early booking’ offer – book your Christmas Party Night or [...]

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Alveston House Hotel was proud to be a part of the massively successful Thornbury Carnival on 4 July 2009.
After a 14-year absence, the streets of Thornbury were lined with revellers enjoying an amazing procession of over 70 floats and exibitors.  We had a stall in a prime position on the Mundy Playing Fields and had hundreds [...]

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Our thanks go to Valerie Fergyson for the following report on the 90th Birthday Celebration of Alveston WI.
‘On Thursday 14th May, Alveston Women’s Institute celebrated the 90th Anniversary of it’s founding with an extremely friendly and delicious lunch at the Alveston House Hotel.
As a memento of the occasion each member received an embroidered handkerchief.  A [...]

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We have been asked by one of our readers, Emma, for chefs Hollandaise Sauce recipe – so here it is.
Ingredients:
1 block of butter ‘melted & clarified’
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
8 black peppercorns
1 tbsp white wine
3 egg yolks
1 sprig of tarragon
1 sprig of thyme
salt & cracked black pepper
Method:

Reduce the vinegar, peppercorns & herbs by 2/3rds.
Whisk the egg yolks [...]

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