February

Downloads available on this page (all at bottom of page):

• Navigation Dining Club application form
• Navigation Inn sample menu
• St Valentine's Day Fixed Price menu
  

St Valentine's Day

This year, St. Valentine's Day falls on a Tuesday.  If you are looking to spend some quality time with your loved one, join us at The Navvy for a relaxed and intimate evening.  We are offering a Fixed Price menu, with 2 courses for £21.95 and 3 courses for £25.95.  You can look at the menu by scrolling to the bottom of the page.  We will also be offering our usual Bargee's Menu (see dining from tab at top of page).  It is always a popular night, so be sure to book your table early to avoid disappointment.

Great Deals at The Navvy

It seems that it’s not possible to turn on the news or pick up a paper without being told, in the words of Dad’s Army’s Private Frazer, “We’re all doomed!”  We’d prefer to think not but, just in case, we have some great deals at The Navvy to ease the burden on under pressure finances!

Below you can see some of the fantastic offers we have to help make the pennies go a little further!

Early Bird
Our Early Bird offer runs from Tuesday - Friday evenings, 6 - 7pm and gives you a 15% discount on your food when you order 2 or more courses from our Bargees or Fixed Price menu (cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer including Menu du Jour, Fish and Chip Friday and Steak Night).

Menu du Jour
Our Menu du Jour offers you Chef's choice of 3 courses for just £13.50, and is available from Tuesdays - Fridays.

Sample menu

Starter:  Goats cheese and Mediterranean vegetable terrine

Main course:  Free range coq au vin with roast potatoes

Dessert:  Lemon posset

Tuesday Steak Night

2 x 8oz Welsh rump steaks with hand cut chunky chips, tomato and mushroom plus a bottle of house wine for £29.95 (Excludes Valentine's Day)

Wednesday Over 60s lunch

Special 2 course lunch for £7.50, 12 – 1.30pm

Menu for Wednesday 1^st February

Main course:  Roast pork with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables and gravy

Dessert:  Apple crumble with custard.

£7.50 per person.  Offer only available when prebooked.

Menu published in advance.  Available only with prior reservation.

Fish and Chip 'Fry Day'
Join us on a Friday, lunch or evening, and enjoy home battered fish with hand cut chunky chips and home made tartare sauce for just £6.95. (Or take out for £5.95)  Add peas for £1.

Celebration Of a Nation Dinners

From January - April 2012, on the last Thursday of each month we will be offering our Celebration of a Nation dinners with a 3 course menu designed around each of the four countries of the British Isles.

Our first dinner, celebrating Scotland with a traditional Burn's Night dinner on 26th January, was a fantastic evening, enjoyed by all.

WALES

Our next dinner takes place on Thursday 23rd February, when we will enjoy a traditional a Welsh meal.

Starter
Welsh rarebit.
Main Course
Lamb cawl - the traditional Welsh stew.
Dessert
Snowdon Pudding - a suet pudding with lemon and marmalade, served with custard.

The cost for 3 courses is £17.95 per head.  Call us now to reserve your space.  To try and create a 'party' atmosphere we will seat diners on tables of 6 or 8 unless you would prefer otherwise.

Our next Celebration Dinner will be an Irish evening on Thursday 29th March - watch for details!

RSPCA Award

As many of you will know, we were thrilled to reach the finals of the RSPCA Good Business Awards, which recognises companies who use and actively promote ethically produced meat and produce.  We were one of only three pubs in the country to reach the finals, and travelled down to London on 5th October for an evening awards ceremony to discover our fate.

We were delighted / disappointed (delete according to current mood swing) to be the runners up on the evening.  Which, after all isn't bad in a national competition.  The winner on the evening was  The Feathers in Stocksfield, Northumberland.  The Feathers has this year won the Great British Pub of the Year, the Great British Gastropub of the Year 2011, and has also won the RSPCA award not only this year but also in 2010 and 2009. So, in context, Runner Up in such prestigious company is not too bad!  (We won't mention that their chef has worked with the RSPCA on a cookery book as well...)

Award or no award, we not only had a great day out, but are delighted that the food policy of which we are so proud was recognised.  We will continue to strive to improve and who knows, maybe next year will be our year! (We are currently drafting cookery book ideas!)

PS  It’s not an award because we allow dogs in the pub, but don’t forget that we do!

The Navigation Dining Club

Even though the economy might be uncertain, at The Navvy we continue to offer a great choice of menus to suit all tastes, occasions and budgets (more details can be found below), so have a look and come and join us.  Don't forget that our Dining Club offers great benefits and is FREE to join.

‘The Navigation Dining Club’ is a fantastic way to enjoy great benefits and discounts on food at The Navvy, just by dining with us!  Free to join, just fill out an application form (available to download at the bottom of the page or pick one up at The Navvy), and we will enrol you with the following benefits:

• FREE to join
• A personalised membership card
• A visit record card – after every 4^th qualifying visit we will give you a £10 voucher to be spent against food at The Navigation Inn.
• The opportunity to name 2 special dates for you – visit us during those weeks, and receive 10% off your total bill for a table of up to 4 people
• A regular free copy of ‘The Navvy News’
• Exclusive offers and promotions

Navvy News - latest edition

The December 2011 edition of The Navvy News is now available for you to download at the bottom of the page.  If you would like to receive a regular free, colour email version then click on the 'Find / Contact Us' tab at the top of this page and you can sign up there.

Music at The Navvy

Music is a great love of our lives, and we would very much like to hear more of it at The Navvy.  Musicians and music groups of all sorts, shapes and sizes are very welcome to use our bar area / Gallery room for rehearsals, impromptu jam sessions etc.  If this is of interest to you, please feel free to chat to us about your needs / thoughts and we will be delighted to help you out.

Our next event takes place on Friday 17th February.  Entry is free and you are welcome to come along and join in or just relax and enjoy the music and the atmosphere.  It starts at about 8.30pm.

Quiz Night - 3rd Thursday of each month

Our next quiz takes place on Thursday 16th February and as usual we start at about 9.15pm and entry is £1 per person, with a maximum of 4 to a team.    The winning team receives £5 and all remaining proceeds go towards the Midlands Air Ambulance.  We hope to see you there.

Gift Vouchers

If you are stumped for a gift, why not consider a Navigation Inn Gift Voucher?  They are available in any denominations - just give us a call and we will sort it out for you.

Boating your way to The Navvy

If you are lucky enough to be coming down The Montgomery Canal by boat, then there are moorings opposite us for your convenience.  It is worth noting that if you are planning to cruise down the Canal, you will come through the locks at Welsh Frankton as you leave the Llangollen Canal.  These locks are manned, and only open between 12 and 2pm each day.  You MUST prebook by calling British Waterways on 01606 723800 by 10am on the day you wish to come through the locks.  If you do not book, you will not be allowed through, even if it is a quiet day.  Once you are through the locks it is a leisurely 2 - 3 hours down to The Navvy.  Bear in mind that you will also need to book a return passage.