New food hall and restaurant set to open at Yorkshire Garden Center after £ 4million overhaul

With a personal investment of £ 4million, Graham Watson, owner of Crimple since 2013, created a 20,000 square foot dining hall including a 160 seat restaurant and outdoor event spaces available for weddings, parties and corporate events, with sustainability high on the agenda.

Crimple Food Hall will feature over 50 specialty producers, offering a massive 12-meter-long butcher; a juice bar; bakery; pastry shop; deli and cheese counter; fresh fruits and vegetables; milk float; take-out food; ready meals, pizzas and fresh fish produced in store; horticultural store; and a granary.

The striking design of the building refers to farm buildings through a series of interconnected barn-like shapes defined by the location of Crimple Valley.

The family business also ensured that the timber clad building had a highly sustainable program.

Mr Watson said: “All refrigeration equipment has been designed to maximize efficiency and has been fitted with a heat recovery system that produces 1275 liters of hot water per hour and this water supplies all the water. hot for the whole site.

“In addition, the engineering plant was designed to balance the refrigeration requirements across the entire system, resulting in further energy savings.”

The distinctive sawtooth roof shape allows natural ventilation and also houses photovoltaic panels to return power to the grid.

Plus, powered windows keep the temperature constant without wasting electricity on heating and cooling.

Graham added, “Even shopping bags are edible, although you might prefer to compost them because they’re made from potatoes.”

Scheduled to open in November, the new Crimple Food Hall and new restaurant will create more than 60 jobs in the region.

The restaurant and garden center will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the bar until 7 p.m., with the restaurant and bar to offer late-night dinners in 2022.

The food hall will open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sunday all areas will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information on Crimple and what they have to offer, visit https://crimple.co.uk/