{"id":14862,"date":"2024-07-30T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T10:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restaurantsbrighton.co.uk\/jobs\/?p=14862"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:04:28","slug":"helen-pomery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restaurantsbrighton.co.uk\/jobs\/blog\/helen-pomery\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Pomery from Tottington Manor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Helen from TERRA Restaurant<\/a> and Tottington Manor<\/a> as she introduces us to her sustainability program and choices with Sussex suppliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Helen’s commitment to sustainable dining is evident in every aspect of her work, from sourcing local, organic ingredients to reducing waste and supporting regional farmers. By partnering with Sussex suppliers, she ensures that TERRA and Tottington Manor serve the freshest, highest-quality produce while minimising their environmental impact.<\/p>\n

Helen’s dedication to sustainability not only enhances the dining experience but also supports the local economy and promotes a greener future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Helen is the Director of Crowns Venues Ltd which is trading as Tottington Manor Hotel and TERRA Restaurant.<\/p>\n

1. When did you take over the running of Tottington Manor?<\/span><\/h2>\n

We acquired Tottington Manor in March 2021 at the end of the lockdown and had just 3 weeks to give the whole place a spruce and stamp some of our own identity on to it before opening the doors again. We had a huge opportunity to make the place stand out and for past customers to start to see the changes that were being made. This beautiful listed building with so much character in the most stunning setting at the foot of the South Downs<\/a> needed a new vision and we embraced that and let our creativity run. <\/span><\/p>\n

Post COVID, hospitality businesses were sadly falling in numbers and to secure our success we needed to ensure our business model was fresh, hospitable but most importantly sustainable in the long term.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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2. You have a newly launched destination restaurant called TERRA on site, what is the inspiration behind this new restaurant?<\/span><\/h2>\n

After operating the Restaurant as a Hotel restaurant, we quickly established ourselves as a quality destination serving excellent food and drinks. After seeing a box of green beans arrive that had been grown in Uganda, I was reminded of all the green beans I ate from my Mum\u2019s vegetable garden and this was the start of our challenge. <\/span><\/p>\n

We have spent months and months finding local suppliers who now supply us with meat, fish, produce and dry goods that are from our doorstep and TERRA, Latin meaning \u2018of the land\u2019 or \u2018of the earth\u2019 totally encompasses our ethos. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Hotel Restaurant isn’t necessarily somewhere that guests might consider coming for a special night out, but TERRA is fast becoming the place to celebrate the start of the weekend and all special occasions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. What do your customers love about TERRA?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our customers love our Sussex inspired menu, they love our location and the creative touches we have made to our Sussex restaurant<\/a>. They like our intimate fine dining<\/a> spaces that guests can choose to dine in at no extra charge, they love our alfresco<\/a> fire pit dining overlooking the South Downs, but most of all I think they love our team and a quality meal and drink at the right price.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Which dishes on your menu are your best sellers and why do you think that is?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our best sellers are our Sussex Twice Baked Cheese Souffle, definitely the Bolney Pork, our TERRA Salad Bowls and the Pi\u00f1a Colada Meringue for dessert, all washed down with our own grapefruit infused TERRAGIN!<\/span><\/p>\n

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5. Sustainability is huge on your agenda. Tell us more.<\/span><\/h2>\n

We all have to do our bit to make our own kind of difference. <\/span><\/p>\n

With the pricing of energy, it was important to reduce costs wherever we could. <\/span><\/p>\n