The Church Bar and Restaurant, Northampton, has a long history as the oldest secular building in the region. It came into being as St John's Hospital in eleven-hundred-forty and since then it has become a soldiers' burial ground, was confiscated during the Reformation, became part of Northampton's first railway station, and was re-consecrated as a Catholic Church before its present incarnation as a restaurant.

Start with a smoked and poached salmon tian with cherry tomato compote and a bitter leaf salad and peach, mozzarella, pea and mint salad dressed lightly with olive oil and lemon juice. For main course consider oven roasted pangasius fillet, a fish similar to cod, wrapped in pancetta, with spring onion and rocket risotto and British veal chop with new potatoes, a red onion, tomato and olive salad, and citrus, parsley and garlic gremolata. End with a sticky toffee pudding and banoffee vanilla cheesecake.