When we arrived at the Queen’s Head over 12 years ago, the concept of using and promoting local produce was almost unheard of. In fact we almost felt that our competitors were laughing at us for using and promoting local produce! How things have changed - we can’t think of one dining pub in our area that now does not serve local food.


So what makes the Queen’s Head different?
At the Queen’s Head we have always tried to go that little bit further:

- We produce supplier lists both printed and online so our customers can find the very best local produce.

- We have visited and know the majority of our suppliers well. Small scale producers are passionate about what they make or grow and you can’t help being inspired by them.

- We don’t just use local produce or put local on our menu, we tell you the name of the farm it came from. What does local mean? Our beef for example often comes from Bramfield Organic Meats which is half a mile from the Queen’s Head at Brights Farm.

- Our meat is carefully prepared by our village butcher KW Clarke, therefore the roast beef we often serve for Sunday lunch comes from a Bramfield farm, is prepared at the Bramfield butcher and is cooked and served at the Bramfield pub - THAT’S LOCAL!

- The Queen’s Head is often referred to as the organic pub. If you are relatively new to the area, do you know why? It is not just because we often serve local organic produce; it is because about 8 years ago we became the first pub outside of London to hold organic certification for some of our dishes on our menu. Perhaps we tried to do this too soon as we didn’t feel that the organic certification body understood how a small pub kitchen worked. We also found that we had to buy ingredients from outside of our local area to put the dishes together.

- Today we prefer to use local organic produce in our dishes such as vegetables from “Wakelyns Farm” between Metfield and Fressingfield rather than go down the route of organic certification of whole dishes, which enables us to use the best produce available each day from our local area.

- The dishes from the Queen’s Head kitchen are truly home-made. When we make the stalwart of pub food Steak and Kidney Pie it is made in our kitchen using steak from “Emmerdale Farm” Darsham and ale from “Adnams”, we even make the shortcrust pastry ourselves. Our bread, scrumptious puddings, sorbets, natural flavoured ice creams all come from our kitchen.


- How many pubs can you visit that make it is own moorish cakes, cookies, flapjacks, jams, marmalade and chutney to take home?


- Local neighbours and customers often bring us produce from their gardens.

- We spend time in our beautiful countryside picking wild blackberries as well as picking apples, pears, plums and walnuts.

- During the summer some herbs, salad leaves and vegetables are grown in our beautiful garden. Of course we can not grow enough to supply to kitchen all throughout the summer and we know where our strengths are and it’s not growing vegetables - we are publicans!

Living in Suffolk we are so lucky to have an abundance of passionate local farmers and producers that it doesn’t take much effort to eat local. At the Queen’s Head our milk, cream, cheeses, beef, lamb, pork, poultry, game, free-range eggs, organic potatoes are all locally produced. Our fish comes from a traditional fishmonger “World of Fish” in Pakefield - pay them a visit and you will see why we are proud to use them. Our vegetables come from Wangford Farm shop that grows much of what they supply.

Pay the Queen’s Head at Bramfield a visit to see why, after 12 years, we are still the pub that really is a little bit different.