What’s On
Once a month Keythorpe turns into a restaurant for our Dining Club. Dates for the upcoming events can be found below and tables of 2, 4, 6/8 people are available to book. Prefer a private event? Please get in touch!
For the past five years, Keythorpe Hall has hosted sell-out monthly supper clubs, bringing the best of the region’s produce to its local community.
The guest chef series is a natural evolution of what we have been doing at Keythorpe for the past five years. Our monthly supper clubs have introduced our local community to the produce, food and hospitality we love, and the new series allows us to open that experience up to a much wider audience.
By inviting exceptional chefs from the UK and beyond into the Keythorpe kitchen, we can create something genuinely collaborative — bringing together their ideas, experience and way of cooking with what is growing in our garden and on neighbouring farms. Each chef will bring something completely different to Keythorpe, while the garden, the house and the seasons provide the common thread.
For the first time, individual rooms at Keythorpe will be available to book for a dining event. Seven bedrooms will be available to overnight guests, combining dinner, bed and breakfast with an exclusive cooking masterclass from the guest chef. Dinner-only places will also be reserved for local guests.
Keythorpe Hall Guest Chef Series
First Guest Chef: Ollie Dabbous
4th & 5th December 2026
While Giles and Barbara were restoring the walled garden, they began growing produce specifically for Ollie and his team at Hide, his Michelin-starred restaurant on Piccadilly. Now, years later, Ollie is coming to Keythorpe — and to the garden where that relationship began. It felt like the natural place to start the series.
Ollie Dabbous was co-founder and executive chef of Hide for seven years. The restaurant was awarded five stars by the Evening Standard, named GQ Restaurant of the Year and received a Michelin star within six months of opening in 2018.
Before Hide, Ollie founded his eponymous restaurant, Dabbous, which was also awarded a Michelin star and widely acclaimed. He was previously head chef at Texture, and his career has included some of the world's most influential kitchens, including Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Hibiscus, Mugaritz, Noma, L’Astrance, The Fat Duck, WD-50 and Pierre Gagnaire.
Away from his own restaurants, Ollie has collaborated with brands including Burberry, Celine, Rolls-Royce and Sotheby’s. He has also cooked at events at Twickenham, Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, Goodwood and Garsington Opera. He is the author of Dabbous: The Cookbook (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Essential (2021), and is a regular MasterChef judge and guest on Saturday Kitchen.
His approach to food is particularly suited to Keythorpe’s garden-led philosophy: “The food I cook is entirely product-driven, taking the very best ingredients, questioning why we like them, and then highlighting those qualities in the most organic, restrained manner.”
For this dinner, Ollie will work directly with Keythorpe’s walled garden, creating a menu around the produce at its peak in early December.
The Experience
Over 4 and 5 December, you are invited to experience Keythorpe as a private country house, with Ollie Dabbous taking over the kitchen for the weekend.
Overnight stays include:
Afternoon tea on arrival
Dinner cooked by Ollie Dabbous
Breakfast the following morning
An exclusive cooking demonstration and masterclass with Ollie
Full use of the house and grounds during your stay
For guests wishing to stay for two nights, special room rates are available for the additional night, excluding dinner. Keythorpe can help with itineraries to explore Uppingham, Stamford or the wider Notswolds area! Please email info@keythorpehall.co.uk
There are a number of Dining Only tickets available for our local community - please sign up for the waiting list if they have sold out as more tickets might become available at a later date.
Wild Food with Claudio Bincoletto
Claudio Bincoletto is Keythorpe Hall’s ethnobotanist. Once the forager for the Italian army, Claudio has a wealth of experience teaching at Petersham Nurseries, as a speaker for the RHS, as a chef in top London restaurants and holding wild food cooking demonstrations at food & country shows across the UK.
Claudio will take you around the grounds of Keythorpe Hall to explore the wild foods growing around us. What to pick, what not to pick and more importantly why not to pick! His greatest passion and speciality is the wild mushroom so be ready to learn how to identify, sustainably pick & cook them! We will finish the walk with a tour of the 2-acre Victorian Walled Garden, which has been in restoration for the past 10 years.
After the walk, Claudio will demonstrate his chefs skills and cook lunch with the ingredients found.
Read a Conde Nast Traveller article about a walk with Claudio here.
Date: TBC - please register your interest via info@keythorpehall.co.uk
Time: 10.00-14.30h
Price: £95
Schedule of the day:
10.00h: Arrival coffee/tea & educational introduction to mushrooms
10.30-12.30h:Wild Food Walk through Keythorpe Halls grounds, looking at the landscape as a source of culinary delicacy. Followed by a tour of Keythorpe Walled Garden.
12.30-14.30h: Cooking demonstration with the ingredients found & lunch