BLOG: The Beacon, Hastings

Come and join us this Sunday (12-4) for a special afternoon of live music brought to you by fantastic Jazz trio Sharpe & Larsson. Let your ears and eyes be entertained with a collection of smoky Jazz classics while we serve up a delightful menu of local steak or mushroom Stroganoff, wild rice, fresh pickles and herb infused carrots. A feast for all senses!

To avoid disappointment, please book your table by calling us on 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com

She looks like a pro and cooks like a pro. Rina’s in the house! Come and try a special lunch with us tomorrow as we venture into a taste of Greece. Our local lamb shoulder has been marinaded and slow roasted in Harissa whilst the vegetarian offering is a delightful Halloumi equivalent. Both are served with a perfectly matching selection of sides; herby cous cous, tzatziki, babaganoush and pitta bread. This delicious feast will be followed by a fresh lemon tart, raspberry coulis and creme fraiche.

Our bar is open, the fire is on and we’re ready to welcome you. See you tomorrow 12-4!

To book a table please call 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com

Come dry off and warm up at The Beacon this Sunday, bring your book and sit by the fire or help yourself to this weeks papers. We’ll be serving up a warming slow cooked local steak or mixed bean chilli, accompanied by coriander rice,  an array of salsas and corn tortilla. For afters theres a rather special orange mousse with lemon ginger shortbread.

See you on Sunday 12-4. To book a table call 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com

This weekend we are pleased to be hosting The Black Huts Festival – a celebration of writing, music & film. Taking place over the course of two days (Friday-Saturday), we’re in for a real treat of cultural and creative exchange. Our doors are open, as is the bar!

Friday Night Doors 6pm for 7.30 start

James Kelman / John Healy followed by a Q&A session
£8.00 / £6.00 concessions
James Kelman, seminal and pivotal Glaswegian writer (How Late It Was How Late, The Burn, Kieron Smith, Boy), reads short stories from A Lean Third (Tangerine Press) and from a novel, alongside a return reading by John Healy who reads from his new – as yet unpublished – work, The Metal Mountain, a novel about an Irish family’s survival in a brutal North London 60 years ago.

From the kitchen

Sweet potato Dal, served with natural yoghurt, mango chutney & nan bread £5 Add a Tikka chicken thigh £2

Saturday Afternoon Doors 12 for 2.30

Carlyle Reedy / Pete Brown
£8.00 / £6.00 concessions
Virginia-born painter and poet Carlyle Reedy possesses an exploratory spirit in writing for performance, collage and print. Her performances in the ’60s and ’70s, in company of writers such as Pete Brown, Spike Hawkins, Tom Raworth and Lee Harwood were extremely influential for younger generations of writers and visual artists.
Pete Brown was the first poet to read at Morden Tower on Bloomsday 1964, in Newcastle upon Tyne. He performed Kurt Schwitters’ poetry at Wholly Communion at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965. He met Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce at the Marquee Club in 1966, and wrote lyrics to Wrapping Paper. Then Brown wrote many Cream lyrics with Jack Bruce, and many of the songs on Bruce’s final album, Silver Rails, and the earlier Songs for a Tailor.

From the kitchen

Sweet potato Dal, served with natural yoghurt, mango chutney & nan bread £5 Add a Tikka chicken thigh £2

Saturday Night Doors 6pm for a 7.30 start

Jonathan Coe / Elle Osborne /Brian Catling
£8.00 / £6.00 concessions
Halloween Performance
Jonathan Coe is the author of many novels including Expo 58, The House of Sleep and The Rotters’ Club. He also wrote Like A Fiery Elephant, the award-winning biography of experimental writer B S
Johnson. Tonight he will be presenting his new book Number 11, a collection of five macabre novellas which provide a chilling portrait of austerity-era Britain. After Jonathan Coe’s reading, he will be in conversation with David Quantick.
Elle Osborne is a fiddle-singer, soundartist, and bare-knuckle writer. Inspired by the language and imagery of English folksongs, she performs her own songs as well as re-interpretations of the traditional songs she was raised amongst, on the North Sea coast of Lincolnshire.
Brian Catling is a poet, sculptor, painter, and performance artist. Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century’s first landmark work of fantasy.”

From the kitchen

Chorizo & mixed bean stew with fresh coriander, sour cream & garlic bread £6.50

or

Mexican bean soup with fresh coriander, sour cream & garlic bread £5

Sunday Clubhouse Lunch 12-4. The start of the new menu for November, kicking off with Gin & Juniper roast pork or Quinoa stuffed squash. Both served with rosemary roast potatoes, sauteed kale with leeks & gravy. Plus, a free glass of mulled cider!

For tickets or to book please call us on 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com (Sunday Lunch bookings) info@beaconhastings.com (Black Huts tickets)

For a the full run down of the Black Huts festival, visit our events page here

Please point your peepers at our latest menu below. November kicks off with a locally sourced joint of pork, marinated in Gin & Juniper, which comes with a free glass of mulled cider!

This Sunday (12-4), join us for Pie & Mash week. Places are limited so we really recommend booking.

Choose from delicious local beef and beer or British winter vegetable fillings, both served with creamy mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables. Followed by Creme Brulee and honey orange poached plums. As usual our bar is open with a great range of wines from Borough Wines, cold beers or even a coffee and slice of cake.

To book please call 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com

Hola Amigos – This Sunday is fully spiced with a Mexican flavour.

Our local pork will be marinaded, slow cooked and pulled. Served with chipotle relish, spiced beans, autumn slaw, green rice and corn tortilla. For those who like things vegetarian, we have spiced aubergine meat(less) balls and sizzling mixed peppers.

Our bar is open with a selection of Borough Wines, cool beers and for this week only our very own WESTHILL SUNRISE!

See you on Sunday 12-4.

To book, please call 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com

This Sunday, Clubhouse is taking the cosy levels up a notch. If this rain refuses to leave we’ll have no choice but to light the fires, maybe even a candle or two. So why not come and dry off up here – We’ve got some gorgeous beef from Homestead Farm in Netherfield which will be slow cooked in organic Whitstable ale and topped with crispy wholegrain mustard dumplings. Or if meat’s not your thing, we’ll also be dishing up a tasty casserole of root veg too. Both are served with twice baked potatoes and locally grown sweet cabbage.

As for afters, its Lemon Posset served with our home baked vanilla shortbread. Our bar is open too if you fancied just popping in for a glass of delicious wine from Borough Wines, a beer, a G&T…or perhaps a glass of juice made from our home grown apples.

To book a table please call us on 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com

See you on Sunday

We are welcoming the near arrival of autumn by roasting up a feast this Sunday! Come and have a taste of our locally reared chicken with roasted cauliflower and smoked garlic, have a warming bowl of home grown apple & blackberry crumble with custard or just prop up the bar with a fine glass of red from newly opened, Borough Wines.

We also have live music from The Protagonists from about midday, a treat for the ears! To book a table please call us on 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com.

See you on Sunday

From October the 4th, Clubhouse Sundays commence with a totally different vibe to see you though the Autumn and Winter months.

Come and join us for a seasonal lunch menu of locally sourced produce within a cosy environment and enjoy a glass of wine by the fantastic Borough Wines.

Our first menu will be free range Sussex roast chicken or vegetable lentil loaf, served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & gravy. Followed by seasonal fruit crumble with custard or cream.  A two course lunch – £15 for the chicken and £12 for the Vegetarian.

Whats more we will have art for your eyes and music for your ears!

To book, please call us on 01424 431 305 or email beaconclubhouse@gmail.com