We spoke to Matt Gregory, the new manager of Chesterfield’s Batch House, to hear more about their latest vendors and plans for the future.
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00:00Hi, my name's Matt Gregory. I'm the General Manager of The Batch House in Chesterfield.
00:05The only artisan food hall and bar in the area. It consists of seven food vendors,
00:12Taste Peru, which is Peruvian food, Little Pizza Magic, The Bakery,
00:20Brill Burger and Ruby and Chat, Indian food. We also have Greek Gods Cuisine and Nikko Nikko,
00:28which is Japanese and Korean food. And then we have The Batch House bar as well.
00:33We're open seven days a week, in the morning till late at night.
00:38And currently have lots of entertainment on live music and DJs. A lot of community events,
00:47such as fundraisers. And also we have a great event space, which we give free of charge
00:54to use the area. So you've recently took over as a manager?
00:58Yeah, I've been here about 12 weeks now. So what are the plans?
01:03So to make it a lot more of a community hub. So a focus on people to meet here and have
01:11food and drinks. And obviously do community events and basically matching with the community.
01:20Do a lot of work with Chesterfield Football Club and Ashgate Hospice, things like that.
01:25And basically just make sure everyone comes and visits us and has a good time.
01:30Great choice of food and drinks. And I say, I hope we're open every day.
01:35Have you got any plans for the future or any direct plan to do anything else?
01:38Currently just make it more and more busy. It's been here two or three years already, but
01:45basically we're trying to revamp it and make it a lot busier and more popular.
01:51There's still a lot of people out there who don't know we're here or don't understand what we are.
01:55So it's just a matter of getting people to come and try us and you won't be disappointed.
02:00We have Taste of Peru, which is South American food from Peru. Basically it's burritos and tacos
02:09as their main things. They do a great rumba steak and fries. We have a Little Pizza Magic,
02:17which is all sorts of choices for 12-inch pizzas. They do dough balls and just started
02:24doing chicken wings, different flavoured chicken wings and ice cream. We have the Bakery at the
02:31Batch, which is open from half past eight in the morning and serves fresh coffee and croissants and
02:39cakes and full English breakfast. And they're open all day now. That's just recently been took over,
02:44so the opening hours are longer to provide hot drinks to people in the Batch house.
02:51We have Brill Burger, which serves great burgers and chicken wraps and loaded fries and their
02:59specialty is the milkshakes. Brill Burger have been here from day one, so they're really,
03:05really, really popular in Chesterfield. Ruby and Chat is Indian. Great selection of Indian food,
03:13poppadoms and drinks. Greek God Cuisine, such as chicken kebab and gyros and all sorts of Greek
03:28pizza bread and olives. We have Nikko Nikko, which serves a great selection of Korean and Japanese
03:37food, such as katsu chicken and bao buns and rice. And then we have the Batch Bar, Batch House
03:47Bar, which serves a selection of great cocktail spirits, beers and wines and again is open every
03:54day till late. Forthcoming events, we hold a regular AA record fair. The next one's in December.
04:01We have live music planned and lots of Christmas bookings coming up, so think about having your
04:11works party here, where we can provide a Batch House currency or a voucher, so you can choose
04:18what food you want rather than have a set menu. You can go and get food whenever you want,
04:23while we also provide a DJ as well for your works Christmas party.