A pub in Weston is putting the finishing touches to a new pizza oven with a difference – it’s shaped like a cricket ball, and painted like one, too!
The Cricketers, under the new ownership of Anglia Country Inns is having its pub kitchen refurbished with the bright red wood-fired oven – complete with a painted seam to replicate a cricket ball – on schedule to start cooking next month.
Director Howard Nye explained: “Our wood fire oven – the only one within a 15 mile radius – is expected to prove popular with customers old and new.
“We’re also encouraging people to donate their old cricket bats in exchange for a pizza. We plan to cover the front of the bar in old cricket bats so we need people to bring theirs in – we’re looking forward to bartering with them for one of our great new pizzas!
“We’re making it a family-orientated pub, with the emphasis on having a fun time.
“We plan a revamped children’s playground area, and eventually plan to grow our own vegetables, and have a petting zoo in the future.”
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