Pub and pizzeria business, the Chickpea Group is adding a fifth pub with rooms to its group. The Queen’s Head in Broad Chalken, in the heart of the Chalke Valley in Wiltshire, is the new addition. They plan to close the pub and undertake a two-phase refurbishment to open up the bar and restaurant to create new space. After reopening in March, the four bedrooms, housed in an annexe to the pub, will be restyled in the group’s style.
Dating back to the 19th century, the pub also has a terrace to the rear with space for 80 guests, plus a beer garden in a wild meadow over the road.
The new food offering will follow the group’s existing sites, serving a mix of pub classics and championing local and seasonal produce. The menu will include an Asphill farm beef and stout pie with mash, mushy peas and gravy; and a double cheeseburger, alongside more restaurant-style dishes like Cornish ray wing with monks beard; and Herdwick lamb shoulder with borlotti beans and salsa verde. Bar snacks include Welsh rarebit, wood-fired chalk stream trout and sweetbread skewers.
This will be the fifth Chickpea Group pub with rooms, and they also operate two Nole pizzerias. The group was founded in 2019 by siblings Ethan and Jordan Davids with their friend Tommy Tulis. Ethan also founded a drinks-led concept, Great Boozers, with TV sandwich chef Max Halley in 2021, which has two sites.
