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Bar Watch: bartender favourites in snacks and drinks
Pub owner gives her desert island drinks plus we pick out the best in snacks and non-alcoholic wines
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impress customers with these Eisberg alcohol-free wines
Blanc de Blancs 0.0% Offer this Chardonnay fizz for celebrations or alcohol-free bottomless brunch.
Pinot Noir 0.0% A complex red for serious wine lovers with soft spice and oak notes.
Pinot Grigio 0.0% This ever-popular grape brings crisp green apple and fresh citrus flavours.
Hendo's
Have you tried these yet? A soya and potato spicy snack with the flavour of Henderson’s Relish. Perfect with a pint.
What’s on your bar?
Michelle Birtley
Owner of the Queens Arms, Litton in the Yorkshire Dales
“We’re a privately owned country pub in the middle of nowhere so we rely on a mix of walkers, families and locals. It’s warm and cosy so we focus on hearty, traditional food. We also have an award-winning brewery on-site.”
Desert island drink?
Being smack bang in the middle of the Dales, it would have to be Yorkshire Tea.
Customer favourite?
The exclusive 3.4% Queens Ale by our own Lamb Brewing Company (Litton Ales, Milds and Bitters) based on an historic local Tetley’s recipe.
Most verstaile soft drink?
Fever Tree tonics elevate any short.
Your best tips for upselling?
We’ll always ask if people want ‘one fer road or one yer came fer’ and because of our location and the fact that people expect certain things from a very rural pub and its team, it goes down very well.
Does provenance matter?
Our on-site brewery’s beers are an attraction in their own right. We use the pale ale in our Litton Dale Lamb Pie which makes it doubly local.
To try the Spicy Margarita recipe, click here.
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