Festive Happenings
This festive season, we invite you to join us for a collection of seasonal happenings.
Calendar ofHappenings
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
This festive season, learn to prepare the finest jams and pickles with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your homemade preserves to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
This Stir-up Sunday, prepare a perfect Christmas pud with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your pudding to someone special or stock the larder ready.
Join the James Hamilton Maddock Jazz duo in the informal setting of the Baa Bar for a decadent, festive pre dinner drinks party 6.30pm - 8pm. This social event includes live music with complimentary Canape’s and Aperitif’s served.
There’s something about saxophone and double bass that changes a room. The James Hamilton Maddock Duo will bring that unmistakable jazz atmosphere to this social event — smooth, stylish and full of life, with enough swing and personality to make the evening feel just a little more special.
Lounging in the Baa Bar, guests will enjoy the convivial atmosphere of a festive pre dinner party. Whilst the jazz duo set the tempo, canapes and aperitif’s will be served informally.
Optional reservations are invited for dinner in The Ox Barn or The Swan from 8pm.
Join decorative artist Melissa White for a magical workshop, painting wooden boxes ideal for gifting or storage with chalk paints from Annie Sloan.
Inspired by Elizabethan wall paintings, Melissa will share processes of layering, mark-making, distressing and waxing, creating mythical scenes, of Nymphs, Satyrs and white harts roaming the yuletide forests.
All materials, boxes, refreshments and a seasonal, locally sourced, sharing plate lunch are included.
The Festive Instinctive Cook is Thyme’s long-standing flagship class reimagined for the Christmas season - a celebration of winter flavours, seasonal abundance and confident, intuitive cooking.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
Learn how to make excellent Christmas mince pies (delightful shortcrust pastry and perfectly spiced mince meat) with help from Thyme’s top chefs. Gift your mince pies to someone special or stock the larder ready. Just add brandy butter…
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Learn to prepare a delicious selection of brunch favourites, fit for the festive season, all while building confidence in essential kitchen skills. After the class, sit down and enjoy your creations with your classmates.
The Festive Instinctive Cook is Thyme’s long-standing flagship class reimagined for the Christmas season - a celebration of winter flavours, seasonal abundance and confident, intuitive cooking.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Elevate the indulgence this Christmas and learn to make the most delightful seasonal sweets… Gift your hard work to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Impress your dinner guests this festive season with simple and delicious canapés. Fit for festive parties - or Christmas Day itself - these seasonal recipes will inspire and delight.
Learn to shake and stir with our brilliant Thyme bartenders and impress your dinner guests for years to come. Make both a seasonal cocktail, and something classic. Enjoy your cocktails during the class or afterwards in the Baa Bar.
Elevate the indulgence this Christmas and learn to make the most delightful seasonal sweets… Gift your hard work to those you love or stock the larder in preparation for the big day.
Join creative garden designer Richard Miers and Daryll Taylor, Thyme’s Head Productive Gardener, for a conversation about gardening through the winter months, hosted by Tiffany Daneff, Gardens Editor at Country Life magazine. They will explore plants that bring colour and interest to the winter garden, from flowering plants and productive berries to decorative foliage and vegetables that can be grown and harvested throughout the season.
They will also share practical advice on making the most of the quieter winter months, including how to prepare and restore plants, buildings and equipment ready for spring. Richard will showcase some of his contemporary winter garden designs, offering inspiration for creating gardens that remain productive and engaging throughout the year.