Champage & cream tea

Join us every Tuesday through until Saturday from 3pm until 4pm for our champagne cream tea.

Enjoy a glass of bubbly, a home made scone including gluten free, real Cornish clotted cream & jam, award winning tea from Teapigs or freshly brewed coffee.

What a fantastic way to celebrate a birthday, an anniversary, a friendship, a promotion - anything!

Come and enjoy our warm and friendly hospitality with friends and family at The Alasia.

Time for Bill Granger...

Here at The Alasia we are huge fans of anything Australian - including our lovely Aussie Manager & co-owner, Michaela.

Michaela introduced us to the very delicious (in looks and in menu)Australian celebrity chef and restaurateur Bill Granger. Have a look at his restaurant web site...quite simply BILLS.

Bill has been dubbed the Aussie answer to Jamie Oliver, however Bill stands alone in his own right as a chef who loves to invite his fans and viewers into his home to enjoy simply good food, fresh and full of colour.

You will find a copy of "Bill's Open Kitchen" at The Alasia and you will catch both Michaela and head chef James Perry flicking through the pages regularly. We are sure neither will mind if you casually come for coffee and a read!

The creativity behind his food is paramount to his study of fine art in his youth. He is inspired by light, open space - and this comes through in his cooking and choice of ingredients.

The Alasia creme brulee is inspired by Bill, and our recent addition of Corn Cakes to our evening menu, is also Bill-inspired.

Bill's latest book "Feed Me Now" is about functional food for the family to sit down and enjoy at the table.

A Fabulous Summer

NEW SUMMER OPENING TIMES AT THE ALASIA...
Due to popular demand we are opening for Sunday lunch starting this Sunday 3rd May. We are very excited and we look forward to seeing so many of you for Sunday lunch. Choose from our two course or three course lunch including roast meats, fish, Summery salads, and of course our very delicious and rather fabulous home made cakes and desserts - yummmmmm!

From the 1st of May we are releasing our new evening dining and wine menu. We are very excited about all the fresh, summer produce and our new wine suppliers.

We are hosting a "Wild Meats Night & Wine Taster" on Thursday evening 14th of May.

We are also hosting our "MAD HATTERS AFTERNOON TEA PARTY" on Wednesday 13th of May to celebrate Coealiac Awareness Week across the UK.Telephone Michaela at The Alasia for details on these events - 01934621471 or visit our web site.

OUR NEW SUMMER OPENING TIMES ARE...

Lunch:
Tuesday to Saturday 11am until 4pm.

Sunday (by popular demand) 12noon until 3pm for our set lunch time menu.

Evening Dinner:
Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening from 5:30pm until 9pm.

Monday - closed.

PLAN YOUR SUMMER...
Each week we will give you details of an event or attraction here or near in Weston-super-Mare, right under your nose. Plan ahead, bring friends and family and enjoy our sunshine (we get a lot!). Read more...

GROW YOUR OWN GARLIC
Growing garlic in England is easy. It is better to buy from seed or bulb companies, which take great care to provide "clean" bulbs, free of pests or viruses rather than from the supermarket which can be a bit hit and miss.

Garlic requires an open, sunny site and good drainage. For National Garlic Day, pop in for lunch and try out delicious home made roasted garlic and basil pesto risotto, chicken salad served with fresh home made garlic bread, wild mushroom and garlic pate and toast, and more...

COOKING TIP...
Cooking with garlic will leave an odour on your hands. To get rid of this, squeeze lemon juice into your hands and then rinse with water.

It is also time to plant English lavender. Lavender looks great in the garden but it can have many uses in the home too. It is a delicious ingredient in sweet dishes. Here at The Alasia we bake gorgeous lavender cup cakes and polenta and lavender biscuits.
TIME FOR GIVING...CRAZY LADY JUMPS FROM PLANE
You will be familiar with our very lovely Jo Arthur who works with us during the week. Jo is so brave, that she is jumping out of an actual plane while it's millions of feet in the air attached to a man or woman and a single parachute. Jo is jumping for charity, and the money she is raising goes to Breast Cancer Research UK. If you would like to make a donation towards Jo's brave endeavour, you can log on securely through the following web site: www.justgiving.com/joleneathur

TIME FOR LUNCH...
Sunday the 19th of July 2009 is The Big Lunch. The team behind this project want as many of the 61 million people in the UK as possible, to simultaneously sit down to lunch together, with their neighbours, in the middle of their street, as a simple but profound act of community. Read more...

Running for Coeliac UK

Time for new hobbies...
It's not too late to book your place for the Bristol Half Marathon. This year's Bristol Half takes place on the 6th of September...so get yourself to the nearest running shop and treat yourself to good running shoes. I visit Moti on Whiteladies Road in Bristol often for my running shoes and video gait analysis, as well as the latest fashionable all-weather gear.

This year I am running to raise money for Coeliac UK (registered charity number - 1048167). Please show your support by placing a donation in my collection tin at The Alasia, and various other locations. If you have a business and would like to have one of my collection tins in place, please let me know.

Sunshine, chocolate and Crackerjack

Hello April, and hello warmer weather.
This week we are loving the pretty ballet pump shoes, floral ra ra skirts, gin & tonic with a twist of lemon and gorgeous long days full of sunshine. Have I painted a lovely picture in your mind?

We have put together a delicious Easter Menu for Easter Sunday. You will find our menu has the theme of chocolate for savoury and sweet. Interested?

Time to book Easter Sunday with us...
Easter Sunday falls on Sunday 12th of April. We are doing two or three courses and bookings will be essential so that you aren't disappointed.

If you would like to pre-book an order for one of our delicious home made cakes, please telephone us on 01934621 471. Click here for more...
Time for Easter Eggs...
A Lot Of Chocolate is a fantastic online chocolate company where you will find dairy free and gluten free Easter Eggs, as well as all-year-round chocolates. Get your order in soon so that you can count your eggs and eat them in time for Easter.

The Alasia in the Press...
We are delighted with the two page article written about us in the Crackerjack section of the Bristol Evening Post by food writer Mark Taylor. Mark not only writes locally, but you will find him in The Times Food, The Guardian and of course his wonderful independent food magazine called Fork. Click here to read the Crackerjack article...

Time to book your holiday...
Gluten-Free on-the-go is a resourceful web site put together to help you plan your holiday away without. This site provides an easy way to look for a hotel, restaurant or café to manage your gluten free diet.

Time for new hobbies...
It's not too late to book your place for the Bristol Half Marathon. This year's Bristol Half takes place on the 6th of September...so get yourself to the nearest running shop and treat yourself to good running shoes. I visit Moti on Whiteladies Road in Bristol often for my running shoes and video gait analysis, as well as the latest fashionable all-weather gear.