Their Story

THE PIG was born in 2010 when our founder, Robin, walked into the rather unloved Kitchen Garden of a hotel outside Brockenhurst in the New Forest.

Something about this walled garden sparked his imagination – for a start, even full of weeds, it was the loveliest thing about a place that had, back then, become a bit down-at-heel.

He began to imagine it as the heart of a new style of country hotel: homey, informal, deeply comfortable and decidedly unshiny, serving unpretentious but delicious home-grown food, and rooted in the English countryside.