Award-winning Yorkshire Dales Calvert’s Restaurant to reopen with new executive chef

An award-winning restaurant in the Yorkshire Dales National Park is set to reopen with a new bistro style menu - and new executive chef Oliver Bennett.

The Taste of England silver award-winning Calvert’s Restaurant, at the popular Wensleydale Creamery Visitor Centre at Hawes in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, will reopen its doors on Wednesday July 8 for the first time since lockdown.

New executive chef Oliver Bennett is aiming to 'elevate the food offering' by championing the finest local ingredients.

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Oliver’s early career started in Scotland, working at the world-famous Browns flagship restaurant, before taking ownership of the Corrour Station House in the West Highlands, where he established a unique fine dining experience.

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A foray as Executive Chef at La Solana in the Pyrenees saw Oliver create a truly unique and memorable dining experience for one of France’s premier eco retreats.

Prior to taking up his position with the Creamery, Oliver has been working for Blakefield’s in York, helping to deliver innovative and exciting food and drink to events all around Yorkshire.

Oliver Bennett, Executive Chef at the Wensleydale Creamery, explained: “I am excited for the reopening of Calvert’s Restaurant where we will showcase the newly designed menu to our customers.

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"Championing the finest Yorkshire Dales produce is at the heart of what we do, delivering show stopping favourites whilst also creating unique dishes people will have never seen and tried before.

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"It goes without saying that the menu will be an ultimate foodie’s dream!

“I’ve got some exciting ideas and concepts to show the versatility of our cheese.”

Trish Cannon, Visitor Centre Director at the Wensleydale Creamery commented: “We are thrilled to be reopening our doors and welcoming customers back to our popular Visitor Centre. Whilst we have been closed, we have been hard at work behind the scenes, introducing new recipes that we are sure will delight our visitors.

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“We are very much looking forward to having Oliver on board and working with him on our shared vision to build on our already successful food offering to take our food offering to the next level, to show our customers the versatility of our cheeses and local produce, and can’t wait to them try our new menu!”

As well as the Calvert’s Restaurant reopening, the Wensleydale Creamery will be welcoming customers back to all parts of its Visitor Centre from Monday 6th July.

The team are working extremely hard to ensure that customers and staff remain safe upon reopening.

More information about the reopening plans can be found here: https://www.wensleydale.co.uk/blog/our-reopening-plans/.

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Monday 6th July will see the reopening of the Cheese Shop, with the 1987 Coffee Shop following on Friday 10th July and the Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese Experience welcoming customers from Saturday 11th July.

For more information, please visit: www.wensleydale.co.uk