Great British Game Week: What’s on the Cards?

In light of the annual #GreatBritishGameWeek, 7^th-13^th November 2022, restaurants across the UK are putting game on the menu to celebrate and introduce more people to its healthiness, sustainability, and versatility.

Great British Game Week is a celebration of enjoying wild game, promoted by British Game Assurance’s (BGA) Eat Wild campaign.

The week-long promotion will be a focus for events, dinners and special offers promoting game to consumers around the country. People will be encouraged to taste game for the first time and try new game products such as pies, sausages, burgers, and charcuterie.

William Sitwell, Restaurant Critic, Broadcaster, and Author, said: “Cooking with and eating game isn’t just a sensible, sustainable and natural way of life, it’s a delicious, exciting approach to food with endless and wonderful possibilities. I wish more of us could understand and share this great source of nutrition and pleasure, so I’m delighted that BGA are championing game with the help of Eat Wild; they are the invaluable go-to people for stockists and fabulous ideas.”

William Sitwell will be hosting the Game Week finale ‘Glorious Game’ event at BGA stockist Holland & Holland’s Shooting Grounds on 12^th November. The event includes a twelve-course tasting menu with wine pairing. BGA Ambassador Chef Leon Challis-Davies will join Holland & Holland Head Chef, Joshua Hunter, Michelin-starred Mark Kempson and Celebrity Chef Valentine Warner to produce an exquisite tasting banquet, with all game at the event being BGA Assured. To book tickets, visit: Holland & Holland (hollandandholland.com)

Throughout the week, restaurants across the UK will be serving BGA-Assured game to celebrate.

Other restaurants celebrating Game Week include; Boisdale, who will be serving wild venison, grouse goulash, as well as pheasant escalope with cured ham and sage. The Shed, Nutbourne, and Rabbit will be serving roast partridge alongside broccoli, crispy potatoes, and blackberry jus. Sussex will have venison haunch with red cabbage, truffled mushroom duxelles, and red kale on the menu. Holborn Dining Room will have game pie on the menu, and La Tua Pasta will celebrate with tortelloni pheasant, mushroom and truffle with a creamy mushroom sauce in their Borough Market stall, where they do take away / eating in the shared areas of the market.

More pubs and restaurants around the UK embracing Game Week with special menus include: The Red Lion (Burnsall), The Beverley Arms , The Millstone (Mellor), The Bailiwick (Egham) , Lyle’s Tea Building, Brat, Rosewood London, Savile Club, Crown and Anchor (Chichester), The Betjeman Arms (St Pancras), King’s Arms (Wandsworth), Hollywood Arms (Chelsea), The Onslow (Clandon), The Wheatsheaf (Esher Green), The Grantley Arms (Wonersh), The White Horse (Ascombe), The Wheatsheaf Inn (Cotswolds).