A pretty fabulous pub. Great locally–brewed beers, cool music, beer gardens with lovely views and amazing food mostly made from scratch on the premises. Check out our Orwell Reserve airdried ham, homemade pasta & icecream amongst other beauties.... We have some wonderful rooms which can be booked out for meetings, parties, dinners or whatever....also, cool chickens & ducks & guineafowl for your avian viewing pleasure....
The Tap's walled garden. See the Tap's menu →
Seriously good food and beer from Ipswich & Suffolk
We're a freehouse — which means we can buy our beers from whoever we want, most come from behind the pub where Jeremy brews the Cliff Quay range - others include Earl Soham, Harwich Town Brewery, Northcote, Elgoods, Dark Star, Greenjacks & Humpty Dumpty. Sorry, no massive brewery products here at the mo....
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Jeremy Moss brews Cliff Quay ales directly behind the pub and we're proud to serve them over our bar. Alec brews the mighty fine Calvors lagers in Coddenham, just next door to Jason & Katherine Salisbury, who happen to supply our Suffolk Gold & Blue cheeses. We've got a lovely piggy back leg in salt at the moment which will be airdrying in our beer cellar for the next few months, homesmoked pastrami is also on the go now we've got our backyard smoker up and working. We have several different types of pickled egg ready to be eaten - from the classic Tolly Pickled Egg, a Calvors & Curry, an Aspall & Chilli and Garlic Ale, Smoked Egg & Smoked Vinegar to our special Marmite & London Stout pickled eggs. Our sausage rolls are fast becoming legendary and regularly sell out, scotch eggs make frequent but short appearances.
Our chickens, ducks & guineafowl supply most of our eggs, our raised pork pie won second prize at the Aldeburgh Food Festival, our beer pickled eggs were awarded Most Inspired Bar Product by Olive Magazine this year as well!
We only have 1 Marans hen plus Foghorn the cockerel and his son (thanks to Monsieur Le Fox). We've got 2 gorgeous Indian Runner Ducks in the back garden shacked up with a very handsome fella so we're hoping for the patter of tiny webbed feet Easter onwards... new additionas are our lovely Guineafowl out in the front - I think we have 3 girls and a boy so we may have more appearing this year...
We use Hillfarm Oil from Heveningham in most of our dressings, dishes & mayos. It's fab!
Opening times;
Monday 6-11pm
Tuesday to Saturday 12-3pm, 6-11pm
Sunday 1030am to 1030pm
Food service times;
Monday 6-930pm
Tuesday to Saturday 12-230pm, 6-930pm
Sunday 1030 to 8pm
Brunch (Sunday only) from 1030 to midday
We're aiming to turn The Tap into the best pub for miles. The 250 year old building has the space to accommodate real ale drinkers, tapas afficionados, serious foodies, darts players & private parties comfortably.
Mike the landlord has cooked in kitchens all over the world and to the highest levels - we're bringing that experience to The Tap and creating a wonderful menu that will suit every taste - whether you want just a couple of tapas style bites or a full blown celebratory meal.