Alchemilla

About

Alchemilla Restaurant is located at the top of Derby Road in Nottingham and serves modern British food, with an emphasis on seasonal ingredients, especially vegetables. The menu changes depending on what is growing and what the team have foraged. Diners can choose from 10 or seven courses at dinner, plus an additional five course menu at lunch and on week nights.

Alex Bond is the head chef and owner of Alchemilla, opening the restaurant last August was the culmination of a long-held dream to open his own restaurant. Alex has worked with some of the UK’s best Michelin starred chefs including Sat Bains, Phil Thompson at Auberge du Lac and Richard Turner at Turners in Birmingham.

Alchemilla sits within a former Victorian coach house (which had sat unused for over a century) and has been transformed into a modern restaurant space. A brushed aluminium kitchen sits within the exposed brickwork of the original coach house arches, which have been given a new lease of life by the addition of huge skylights. The Alchemilla theme runs from the living wall alongside the front door, where the planting gives diners a taste of what is to come. The living theme continues inside where a moss wall blurs the boundaries between inside and out and a feature bookcase at the chef’s table hints at some of the many inspiration sources behind Alex’s vision. Jars of foraged sweet woodruff and elderflower sit alongside Nordic cookery books and plants.

As a keen gardener Alex is a firm believer that 99% of his ingredients should be British sourced and he often takes his team on foraging trips in the local hedgerows and fields, after which they preserve and store the ingredients to be used later in the year.