Come and celebrate the most magical time of the year with us! From festive feasts and wreath-making to Christmas quizzes, live music and New Year celebrations, there’s something to make everyone’s season sparkle. Think bold jewel tones, midnight blues, golden touches, and plenty of festive magic. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!
FATHER CHRISTMAS EXPLORER TRAIL
“OH NO! CHRISTMAS HAS GONE MISSING AT THE MILK HOUSE” HIS ELVES HAVE HIDDEN CLUES AROUND THE TERRACE. CAN YOU FIND THEM AND HELP SAVE CHRISTMAS?
Join us for a festive outdoor adventure around The Milk House! Follow your explorer map, search for hidden Christmas characters and tick off each discovery along the way. Once you’ve completed the trail, hand in your map to receive a delicious chocolate treat.
£2 per activity sheet – fun for little explorers of all ages.
WREATH WORKSHOP WITH EMMALOU FLOWERS & FOLIAGE 10.30am – 2.30pm
Booking essential
Join us in our cosy bar for some festive wreath making. Create your own door wreath or table centre piece using locally foraged foliage under Emma’s expert guidance. There’ll be coffee or tea on arrival and after all the joy of wreath making, a light lunch. £60 per person, a non-refundable £10 deposit taken at time of booking. Bringing your own secateurs/scissors is recommended. To book email or give us a call on 01580 720200, if we don’t pick up leave us a message & we’ll get back to you.
WREATH WORKSHOP WITH EMMALOU FLOWERS & FOLIAGE 6.30pm – 9.30pm
Booking essential
Join us in our cosy bar for some festive wreath making. Create your own door wreath or table centre piece using locally foraged foliage under Emma’s expert guidance. There’ll be a glass of House Bubbles & bar bites on arrival to fuel your festive flair!
£60 per person, a non-refundable £10 deposit taken at time of booking. To book email or give us a call on 01580 720200, if we don’t pick up leave us a message & we’ll get back to you.
HO HO HO HOLIDAY GAMES NIGHT – JOIN US IN THE BAR FOR A TIPPLE AND GET YOUR GAME ON WITH OUR FAVOURITE TRADITIONAL BOARD GAMES
Come as a group, come as a pair, come on your own and join tables of good old board games. We’ll have Scrabble, Backgammon, Trivial Pursuit, Uno and more. No need to book, just come along on the evening. No charge.
MAKE IT A MERRY & BRIGHT NIGHT WITH THE CRANBROOK TOWN BAND 7.30pm
There’s no chance of a silent night in Sissinghurst, Christmas tunes never sound better than when they are brassy! Join us in the bar, no need to book.
IT’S THE FRI-YAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS!
HO-HO HAPPY HOURS 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Join us for Happy Hours to celebrate the end of the working week. £4 pints (excluding Guinness). 175ml House Wines, 125ml House Bubbles & 250ml Mulled Wine all at £4 each. No booking required for the bar. If you’re joining us in the Dining Room for dinner, booking a table is recommended.
CHRISTMAS ROAST TURKEY WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS 12.00pm – 4.00pm
Kick-start your Christmas festivities with our roast with the most, roast turkey and all the trimmings! Gather your family and friends, enjoy a cosy festive atmosphere and get into the Christmas spirit. Serving 12pm – 4pm, last orders at 3.45pm.
CHRISTMAS FEASTING – DINING ROOM OPEN 12.00pm – 9.00pm
Booking recommended
Feast with family and friends, our Dining Room is open 12.00pm – 9.00pm on Christmas Eve. So come along and enjoy a lunch or dinner away from heat of the kitchen at home!
HOHO HAPPY HOURS 8.00pm – 10.00pm. TINSEL TUNES ‘TIL LATE
No booking required
Join us for Happy Hours to celebrate the end of the working week. £4 pints (excluding Guinness). 175ml House Wines, 125ml House Bubbles & 250ml Mulled Wine all at £4 each. No booking required for the bar. Make merry with family and friends and enjoy the tunes.
WONDROUS WISHES TO YOU ALL, WE’RE CLOSED TODAY
FAB-YULE-US LONG LUNCH 12.00pm – 5.00pm
Booking recommended
There’s nothing like a walk in the Kentish countryside on Boxing Day. After all that fresh air you’ll need a drink and bite to eat. Save the turkey soup for another day and make the most of our FAB-YULE-US lunch service. To book email or give us a call on 01580 720200, if we don’t pick up leave us a message & we’ll get back to you.
TMH OPEN 9.00am – 6.00pm
BE TRIUMPHANT WITH YOUR TRIVIA – JOIN OUR CHRISTMAS QUIZ 7.00pm
Booking essential
Get your geek on for our festive quiz. Come along for five challenging rounds. Teams of 6 people. £2 per person. To book email or give us a call on 01580 720200, if we don’t pick up leave us a message & we’ll get back to you.
BANK HOLIDAY BUBBLES & BRUNCH 10.00am – 1.00pm
Booking essential
Keep the festive celebrations going with a delicious brunch featuring all your breakfast favourites, including perfectly cooked eggs, alongside a glass of fizz! Whether you’re catching up with friends, gathering the family or simply making the most of the Christmas break, join us for a relaxed start to your day.
THE FINAL FEAST OF 2026 – DINING ROOM OPEN 12.00pm – 9.00pm
Booking essential
Join us for one last feast before the fizz as we say goodbye to 2026! Enjoy a delicious meal before the New Year celebrations begin, with our full Winter Dining Menu served all day. Gather around the table, tuck into your favourites and end the year on a delicious note!
FIREWORK FODDER: HOT DOGS & DIY HOT CHOC ON THE TERRACE 4.00pm – 7.00pm
No booking required
We’ll be filling the sky with ‘oohs and ahhs’ and rustling up hearty hot dogs whilst you get creative at the DIY hot choc stand. There is no such thing as too many marshmallows!
OUT WITH A BANG: FAMILY FIREWORKS 5.00pm
No booking required
DANCE IN 2026 WITH OUR RESIDENT DJ AJK – 8.00pm – ‘TIL LATE
No booking required
I’M FEELING PINE LUNCH 12.00pm – 4.00pm
Booking recommended
If you’re feeling a little delicate after all that revelry, we’ve got the thing. With our DIY Bloody Marys to soothe sore heads, TMH burgers and fish & chips a plenty along with many other options from our Winter Dining menu, join us in the Dining Room or bar.
TMH OPEN 9.00am – 6.00pm
The Milk House is a former coaching inn in the heart of the village of Sissinghurst. With a lively bar, bustling Dining Room and four bedrooms providing comfortable accommodation. Surrounded by artisan producers in the garden of England we do our best to source locally for our bar and for our menus. In the bar we serve local cask ales, draught beer and cider. We have sparkling wines and white wines from nearby included in our extensive wine list, with plenty of wines by the glass. The bar remains our casual dining area, with bar service only from our grazing menu. We have allergen cards readily available for those with specific dietary requirements, there are always vegetarian, vegan, gluten free & dairy free options. We offer coffees & teas from 9am. Well behaved four legged friends are welcome in our Garden, on our Terrace and in the Bar. Please ensure they are under control at all times and remain on a lead. Please note that dogs are not permitted in our Dining Room or in our accommodation.
Our large, airy Dining Room lends itself to a relaxed dining experience. All table service we take pride in our friendly yet professional service and hope that people take the opportunity to enjoy excellent quality produce, prepared & cooked onsite and served directly to your table. We take enormous pride in creating a menu that sources as much as possible from the artisan and local producers on our doorstep and we try to ensure there is something for everyone. We have allergen cards readily available for those with specific dietary requirements, there are always vegetarian, vegan, gluten free & dairy free options. Our Dining Room is open every day from midday until 9pm, except Sunday when it closes at 4pm. Last orders are 15 minutes before closing time. The Dining Room houses tables of varying size, the largest group we can seat on one long table is 14 people. We’re delighted to welcome groups of any size and place them on tables adjacent to each other, where possible. Our semi private dining room is ideal for groups from 10 – 12 people. In order to ensure smooth service and menu availability we ask that groups of 10 or more pre order their food at least 24 hours in advance. There is a discretionary 12.5% service charge added to the bills in the Dining Room. Dogs are not permitted in the Dining Room.
Our pizza oven has gone into hibernation and the marquee on our terrace has come down. They’ll be back in the Spring next year!
Join us on Sunday’s for the Sunday roast with the most! Each week the roast varies and has a vegetarian alternative too. Always served with roasties, an abundance of vegetables and lashings of jus. The roast beef comes with a Yorkie too!
11 October Roast Beef £24
18 October Roast Lamb £24
25 October Roast Pork £20
1 November Roast Beef £24
8 November Roast Lamb £24
15 November Roast Pork £20
22 November Roast Beef £24
29 November Roast Lamb £24
6 December Roast Pork £20
13 December Roast Beef £24
20 December Roast Turkey £24
27 December No Roast today, we’re Christmas roasted out!
3 January Roast Beef £24
10 January Roast Lamb £24
We do everything we can to accommodate dietary requirements by creating allergen cards for each seasonal menu. Please see these below. As almost everything we have is prepared on site, there are some dishes that can be made gluten/dairy free with the simple removal of one ingredient. Please make sure you discuss your allergens with one of the team when you arrive on site. Our procedure is to note allergens on the orders, even if the dish does not contain the allergen ingredient. We have gluten free bread rolls on site and gluten free bases for pizzas (they are cooked in the same wood fired oven as the other pizzas.)
The Milk House is not an allergy free kitchen. We cannot guarantee that our products are free from ingredients that may affect those with serious food allergies. In our kitchen we do have gluten, milk & dairy products, eggs, nuts & seeds. We take great care to avoid any cross contamination, but it cannot be guaranteed.
For those who want to spend a little more time in the village, The Milk House also has four beautifully-appointed bedrooms: two double rooms, one twin room and a family room which sleeps up to four people. Spacious and light, the rooms have been styled to feel relaxing and home-from-home, with comfortable beds, luxurious en suite bathrooms and scenic views of the village and surrounding orchards. An overnight stay is completed with breakfast in the morning.
AUTUMN SUPPER & STAY £160
Cosy in with us over the darkest winter months. Make the most of our open fires & log burner indoors and spend the day soaking up subtle winter colours on the coast or in local woodland, outdoors. Choose from our locally sourced two course set menu in the Dining Room, share a bottle of our hand picked house wine and indulge in a hearty full English breakfast in the morning. T&Cs. Supper at the chef’s discretion from a set two course menu. A bottle of house wine to share, wine upgrades available/payable. Breakfast is served in the Dining Room between 9am and 10:30am daily.
Valid Monday – Thursday from Monday 5 October 2026 to Thursday 18 December 2026.
TWO NIGHT SUPPER & STAY AUTUMN £220
Cosy in with us over the darkest winter months. Make the most of our open fires & log burner indoors and spend the day soaking up subtle winter colours on the coast or in local woodland, outdoors. On one of the evenings choose from our locally sourced two course set menu in the Dining Room, share a bottle of our hand picked house wine and indulge in a hearty full English breakfast in the morning. T&Cs. Supper on one of the evenings only. Menu at the chef’s discretion from a set two course menu. A bottle of house wine to share, wine upgrades available/payable. Breakfast is served in the Dining Room between 9am and 10:30am daily.
Valid Monday – Thursday from Monday 5 October 2026 – Thursday 18 December 2026.
Monday to Saturday
Food served all day, from midday until 9pm, last orders for food 8:45pm.
Dining Menu, Grazing Menu, Children’s Menu and Pudding Menu all available.
Sunday
Sunday from midday till 4pm our Dining Menu is served along with our Sunday Roast. The Grazing menu, Children’s menu and Pudding menu are also available until 4pm. Between 4pm and 6pm on a Sunday there is no food service.
At 6pm, our food service resumes in the Bar area. There is a reduced Dining Menu available until 8pm, last food orders 7:45pm.
The Milk House Opening Hours
Monday – Thursday 9am – 10pm
Friday & Saturday 9am – 11pm
Sunday 9am – 9pm
There is FREE parking available for all of The Milk House guests.
Parking for all our visitors and guests is free of charge when you register your vehicle at one of the touch screens in The Milk House. These are located within the property and clearly signed. There is no need to purchase a ticket via the Ring go app nor at the machine in the car park if you are visiting us.
Simply come into The Milk House and enter your vehicle registration into a touch pad. The team working will be able to do this for you if you prefer. We will require the correct vehicle registration details.
For guests staying overnight and more, parking is free for the duration of your stay.
For people who use our car park for other reasons, there will be a charge. It is essential you pay this charge to avoid a fine.
Please note that our car park is managed by Creative Car Park. They issue the penalty notices and manage the ingress and egress from the car park via cameras managed by them.
Sissinghurst is the perfect place for a family day out, especially during the warmer months, with the historic castle and gardens just half a mile’s walk from The Milk House. Cranbrook, Kent’s smallest town and one of the prettiest, is 1.8 miles from Sissinghurst village. The journey takes five minutes by road, and there are regular buses. Alternatively, a pleasant route can be taken on foot across the fields.
From nearby Staplehurst station, you can reach London by train in less than an hour. If you’re hitting the road instead, our car park is ample. Both The Channel Tunnel and Dover are within an hour’s drive. Gatwick Airport is about an hour away with Heathrow and Stansted not much further.
