The Old Tannery

This unexpected gem is a restaurant and bar located inside the Red Brick Building in Glastonbury. The building was formerly a sheepskin factory and is now a community based social enterprise hosting lots of fantastic live events, classes and workshops and a community garden and leases space to different tenants. We wandered into the restaurant at a busy time when they probably wouldn’t have been serving coffee and cake, but they managed to provide some delicious Victoria Sponge and a hazelnut flapjack along with a lovely pomegranate and green tea juice. The staff were really accommodating and led us to our table on the terrace which looked out onto the garden and farmland below. Somehow, the juxtaposition of natural beauty and the old industrial age factory buildings worked really well and emphasised their effort to reclaim the space. I haven’t attended any events but I have been told that the night-time events such as live music and comedy nights are well worth going to.