Marcin ‘Magic’ Pomierny, Head Chef at the Maids Head and Chef of the Year in the EDP Norfolk Food and Drink Awards 2016, has reached the semi-final of the Craft Guild of Chefs National Chef of the Year competition.Read more »
We were delighted to host an afternoon tea on Wednesday for the team behind the successful Museum of Norwich, Saving Samson, Crowdfunding campaign.Read more »
We are delighted to announce that we have achieved a Four Star Silver Award, for the first time, in our 2018 AA overnight inspection. The Wine Press Restaurant also retained its Two AA Rosettes for culinary excellence. We are the only hotel in the City of Norwich with a Four Star Silver Award.Read more »
Six hotel staff have had babies in recent months. The new arrivals, parents and siblings were invited to the hotel for a special afternoon tea celebration on 12 April, hosted by General Manager, Christine Malcolm. Read more »
During English Tourism Week in March, we opened a series of newly refurbished rooms in the oldest part of the hotel and unveiled a photograph of our late Victorian owner, Walter Rye.Read more »
Celebrate English Tourism Week with us from Saturday, March 17 to Sunday, March 25. A classic English Afternoon Tea will be on offer, along with special English Tourism Week cocktails, Norfolk Martini and Norfolk Raspberry Tonic.Read more »
In February we were delighted to welcome 13 members of the Watts family for Sunday lunch, all descendants of Arthur and Mary Ann Watts who ran a bakery, and lived in what is now the Maids Head’s Palace Street wing, during the early decades of the 20th century.Read more »
Peter Rye, great-grandson of Walter Rye, who was owner of the Maids Head from 1889-1895, visited the hotel on January 8 with Christopher Kitching, author of a new biography of Walter Rye called A Passion for Records.Read more »
