{"id":197,"date":"2007-12-21T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/the-walnut-tree-abergavenny-south-wales-reopens\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:35:13","slug":"the-walnut-tree-abergavenny-south-wales-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/the-walnut-tree-abergavenny-south-wales-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walnut Tree, Abergavenny, South Wales Reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE WALNUT TREE REOPENS FOR BUSINESS, writes Clifford Mould <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Walnut Tree, a much-loved restaurant just outside Abergavenny in South Wales, has re-opened (19 December) as a joint venture between William Griffiths, of The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny, and top chef Shaun Hill.<\/p>\n<p>William Griffiths and Shaun Hill first worked together some years ago at Shaun\u2019s restaurant, The Merchant House, in Ludlow which had a Michelin star, 4\/5 in the Good Food Guide, 3 AA rosettes and was voted 14th best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They are delighted to be in business together. \u2018It\u2019s a particularly exciting and fast-moving project,\u2019 said William Griffiths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018In just six months we\u2019ve developed our concept for The Walnut Tree, completely refurbished the property and pulled together a tremendous team,\u2019  Williams Griffiths told Dine Online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Walnut Tree\u2019s menu is an eclectic mix, based on personal taste and sound cooking techniques, rather than any particular country&#8217;s cuisine. A unifying feature is excellent ingredients, carefully chosen, and local where feasible. Following the straightforward style developed at The Merchant House, The Walnut Tree aims to be an informal setting for good food and wine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Walnut Tree is open from Tuesday to Saturday for lunch (12 noon \u2013 2.30pm) and dinner (7pm \u2013 10pm). Some of the tables are not bookable, to ensure that diners have the chance to eat at short notice.<\/p>\n<p>The menu and wine list are available on <strong>www.thewalnuttreeinn.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For reservations or further information please call 01873 852797.<\/p>\n<p>Over the Christmas break The Walnut Tree will be open as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Eve            Closed<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Day            Closed<\/p>\n<p>Boxing Day             Closed <\/p>\n<p>27th December            Open for dinner only<\/p>\n<p>28th December             Open for lunch and dinner<\/p>\n<p>29th December            Open for lunch and dinner<\/p>\n<p>New Years Eve             Closed<\/p>\n<p>New Years Day             Open for lunch and dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WALNUT TREE REOPENS FOR BUSINESS, writes Clifford Mould The Walnut Tree, a much-loved restaurant just outside Abergavenny in South Wales, has re-opened (19 December) as a joint venture between William Griffiths, of The Angel Hotel in Abergavenny, and top chef Shaun Hill. William Griffiths and Shaun Hill first worked together some years ago at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/the-walnut-tree-abergavenny-south-wales-reopens\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}