The Larder House

04/02/2026

25/01/2026

The Daily T · Episode

18/05/2025

Wandering Bear Presents Poor Creature
at The Larder House - 18/9/25 - 7pm (Doors 6pm)

We have walked tall when bringing live music to The Wight Bear, we can now wander tall with this unique opportunity to create an evening that should not be missed...remember "THOSE WHO WANDER ARE NOT ALWAYS LOST"

Tickets available here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/wandering-bear or at The Wight Bear

WHO ARE POOR CREATURE....those who listen to Landless LANKUM will know well what's coming...

Poor Creature are a trio comprised of Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody.

All three are members of other bands (Landless and Lankum respectively) who have built a large following on re-interpreting songs from the past.

They formed during lockdown and the original line-up was initially just Ruth and Cormac.

“Ruth and I had played together a lot before and then lockdown hit. Suddenly we had a load of time at home with a room full of instruments, so it started from there,” says Cormac.

The decision was also not a conscious one, adds Ruth: “We never said: ‘let’s start a band’ it was more ‘let’s arrange this song’ and see what happens.”

Their first gigs were online during the pandemic as part of cultural festivals. “One was an online event called Box Moon, organised by Natalia Beylis and Decy Synnott. Musicians and artists from all over the country made videos at home and watched them together on Twitch, a rare moment of community at that time.

We made a tape recording of An Draighneán Donn, using Ruth's new theremin. It grew from there.” It slowly built into something

John joined about 18 months later and remembers their first gig, a benefit show to pay for a hip operation for a friend's greyhound, for which they had no time to rehearse.

“We just improvised and couldn’t even hear each other – but it was kind of magical, and that sort of carries into how we make the songs.

Now with the album All Smiles Tonight complete and due for release on July 11th we are very very pleased to announce that Poor Creature will be playing for us as part of their Uk tour in September....

A BIG MOMENT IS COMING....

Peace, Love & Live Music
The Wight Bear Crew
"the glass ain't always empty"

24/02/2025

15/01/2025

Almost 14 years of Wood fired cooking off the peels.

Our food & drink story must always evolve.

More to reveal in coming weeks

To help with the plans we are looking to recruit a senior chef to join our kitchen management & creative team.
As always a strong desire to work with real ingredients.

Please email any interest to [email protected]

🔥 👩‍🍳 🔥 🐄 🔥 🥬

05/12/2024

Our 2024 mulled cider -"Winter Blues"

Symbolises what we stand for. Engaging local farms to create a unique flavoursome blend.

We've taken Dickies Dribble cider - a class example of real cider made just down the road in Bransgore. At over 6% alcohol is a great base to effectively warm one's mind.

There we blended over 200 litres combining over 20kg of local blueberries that after a short smoking in our wood oven were puréed to allow a fine mix. The blueberries from have taste (Incomparable to imported ones ) - the flavours are clean & punchy.

Some varietals had notes of earl grey tea so we decided to marry the batch with New Forest tea company's Earl Grey tea. Fresh hit of Bergamot citrus, floral cornflower & the bold tannins of the black Ceylon give extra life, body & once combined with the subtle smoke of the blueberry offer a wash of peated Islay whisky flavour.

We are serving it hot. Flavours change marvellously as it cools. Available from this Friday in the restaurant.
If you want a bottle for home - head over to We have a refill station with empty bottles to buy or bring your own.

Left over smokey blueberry pulp is in the hands of our Head Chef Jesse. Most likely to glaze some local beast.
Some also into for a seasonal addition to the Hurricane 🍹

Cheers to the ingredient creators & Dave our bar mind (He's done with squeezing blueberries until next time)

Enjoy

13/09/2024

New dish for the weekend

Turkish figs
Coppa Reserva Modena
Gooseberry & Crab Apple

07/09/2024

New dish on tonight

Mudeford line caught Squid. Oyster mushrooms (Grown by us in ) . Sauce of fermented tomato. Chilli. Kaffir lime.