December's Newsletter

Winter & the holidays are upon us! 

We are pleased to announce the second annual Dining for Dollars with the Marshal High School Choir!

While we will be closed for Christmas Day, we will re-open bright and early on Boxing Day, Thursday the 26th at 9 AM for Breakfast!

Physical gift cards are in stock! Fantastic stocking stuffers, offer that pub-lover in your life a $50 gift card, or even better, a holiday merchandise package from the Hawk & Griffin! A seasonal long sleeve t-shirt & a gift card for $80!

Just in time for the holidays! You've been asking for long sleeve t-shirts and they have arrived. Get some for those pub lovers on your list. For you gin lovers, POTIO IUNIPERUM FACIT UNUM PECCATUM translates to DRINKING GIN MAKES ONE SIN. Get yours today for $30 each.

Ask any Brit what foods remind them of Christmas and they are sure to bring up the mince pie. The mincemeat pie dates back at least to the 1400’s and were a favorite of King Henry V. The mincemeat filling itself dates back further to the time of the crusades where fruits and spices were used to preserve meat. In fact, mincemeat pies were largely a savory dish until the 1800’s when meat was an option and by the 1900’s the recipe was largely as it is now. A blend of dried fruit, candied peel, sugar molasses and brandy wrapped in a buttery short-crust pastry. Hard to argue with a recipe that has been refined over almost 1000 years. 

Our shipment of custom bangers are here. A recipe collaboration between owner Euan and Meatcrafters, these bangers are not your average sausage. A custom blend of Vande Rose Farms premium Duroc pork and British herbs and spices including lemon rind, nutmeg, white pepper, mace and sage make this a must try on a cold day at the pub.

Join us this holiday season for our Christmas Specials menu! Bringing you all the good cheer and fantastic eats that England holds so dear.

 Beer has been brewed in Chiswick, England since the days of Oliver Cromwell and Fullers is one of England’s best known breweries. The Griffin brewery name was first used in the early 1800’s and a few years later the brewery was acquired by John Fuller and eventually passed to his son John Bird Fuller. Fullers ESB is one of two beers imported as draught ales in the US. It’s one of the breweries flagship beers and most award winning in their portfolio having been twice named World Champion Beer. As an ESB (Extra Special Bitter) this beer is slightly stronger in that its sister beer London Pride. With a rich mahogany color, it offers citrus / marmalade aromas with malt toffee & biscuit flavours and medium bitterness. Although not a true cask ale we are likely the only pub in USA serving this beer through our beer engines (hand pumps) which really helps to accentuate the malt / caramel flavours. It is a surprisingly good companion to our sticky toffee pudding and works exceptionally well with our Hawk & Griffin Bangers & Mash. Hugely popular when we put this on, it’s sure to go quick. 

We take our Quiz Night seriously here at Hawk and Griffin and with good reason. Descriptions of British pub quizzes go back to the 1950s but it was the 1970s that saw the quiz night expand in popularity. In 1976, Sharon Burns and Tom Porter founded and organized 32 pub quiz teams in three leagues in southern England. Burns and Porter travelled the country for the next few years, presenting their quizzes to breweries as a marketing strategy to bring customers to their pubs on slow evenings. Burns and Porter cornered the market in pub quizzes, with over 10,000 teams playing in one of their quizzes every week in the season, while the BBC and independent television companies tapped them for contestants and questions for television quiz shows. Today pub quizzes are a staple of the British pub and we are carrying on that tradition.