A NEW venture is in store for the restaurant at the Cirencester Polo Club. 

This follows as Ivy Lodge Bar & Brasserie is under new stewardship. 

Cirencester Park Polo Club will be opening its doors to its restaurant and bar this season to everyone, starting with a pop-up lunch for Mother’s Day on Sunday, March 27. 

With permission from the club, they will now be open to the public for lunches as well as take bookings for private functions.

Ivy Lodge Bar & Brasserie is now under the stewardship of chef and hotelier, Ethan Rodgers.

“It is an honour to run the bar and brasserie and I am looking forward to a great season,” said Ethan.

“We have some great plans for the venue including champagne lunches, specialist seafood, including sushi. We will be open Wednesday to Sunday for lunch and the bar will be open later at the weekends.”

It will officially open on Easter weekend when the polo season gets underway.

Ethan and his team have meanwhile put together a special Sunday lunch that utilises ingredients from some of his various local suppliers.  

The Maldon oysters come from New Wave Seafood, the rib of beef from farmer John Hind, roasted Old Spot pork from Toby and Churri from Duntisbourn as well as wild garlic from the Bathurst Estate.   

The special Mother’s Day lunch will support Countess Bathurst’s chosen charity, NRSA, which is the National Foundation for Retired Service Animals, a cause close to her heart since working with the police as the High Sherriff of Gloucestershire.

For more information or to book a table please call 07841099824 or email: info@ivylodgebrasserie.co.uk