RAG Events

Culinary masterclass with Executive Chef Stuart Hart - 'Pheasant Ballotine and Risotto'

Saturday 7th September 09.30 - 15.00 | £50.00 per person

Join Chef Hart in the kitchen for a Culinary Masterclass with Stuart and his team. The day will start at 9.30am with pastries and after a quick health and safety briefing you will be shown to your stations and guided through the ingredients of the day. The masterclass is followed by a sumptuous 2-course lunch in the Coffee Room with a couple of matching wines to taste.

Saturday 7th September 09.30 - 15.00 | £50.00 per person

Join Chef Hart in the kitchen for a Culinary Masterclass with Stuart and his team. The day will start at 9.30am with pastries and after a quick health and safety briefing you will be shown to your stations and guided through the ingredients of the day. The masterclass is followed by a sumptuous 2-course lunch in the Coffee Room with a couple of matching wines to taste.

Thursday 12th September 11.00 - 12.00 | The Drawing Room | £10.00 per person*

The Clubs 'Coffee + Connect' series has proven to be a great opportunity for Rag members to meet one another, share experiences and make new connections. Members Sarah Galbraith and Peter Mathews CMG look forward to welcoming you to this very enjoyable event.  A table will be booked in the Ribbon Bar & Terrace for those wishing to join Sarah and Peter for lunch afterwards.

*The ticket includes an assortment of Cakes with Tea and Coffee

BOOK HERE

Saturday 7th September 09.30 - 15.00 | £50.00 per person

Join Chef Hart in the kitchen for a Culinary Masterclass with Stuart and his team. The day will start at 9.30am with pastries and after a quick health and safety briefing you will be shown to your stations and guided through the ingredients of the day. The masterclass is followed by a sumptuous 2-course lunch in the Coffee Room with a couple of matching wines to taste.

Thursday 12th September at 18:30 | £10 per person

Mark your calendar for Thursday 12th September 18.30 for the Ragamuffins’ board game night event. Prepare to have a great time filled with laughter and wonderful memories. The event guarantees an evening full of fun and excitement that you won’t want to miss.

Wednesday 18th September at 12.30 | £70*
*Includes one glass Prosecco and half bottle Wine

The next Bonny Lunch is on Wednesday 18th September at 12:30 for 13:00. The speaker is the celebrated military historian, Saul David. Saul will, fittingly for the date, be speaking to us on the Arnhem Campaign 17 to 26 September 1944. To coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day and Arnhem, Saul has very recently published “Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War”.

A recent Sunday Times review states: “Sky Warriors is an accomplished act of storytelling; authoritative, far-reaching and deeply moving. Building the narrative from the ground-up, Saul David draws on multiple archives, published memoirs, unpublished diaries and letters, and interviews with participants.
The end result is a dramatic narrative of the airborne forces’ recruitment, training and wartime exploits.” He is bringing a few books with him and will be happy to do a signing session after lunch.

Wednesday 18th September 18.30 | £32.50 per person

Taking place at The Ribbon Bar & Terrace, experience 5 exuberant and unique wines perfect for the end of Summer and into Autumn.

Friends at Davy’s Wine Merchants will be on hand to guide members through these informal tastings. Alternatively, members are more than welcome to enjoy the wines with their guests at their own pace.

Thursday 19th September at 18.30 | Ribbon Bar & Terrace | £30.00

After a summer of hopefully many opportunities to enjoy the best that Cuba offers, Rag devotees of the mother island’s finest are welcomed back to the Ribbon Terrace for a Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 3, combined with something in your glass to dovetail. This selection, thanks for which is once again due to Hunters & Frankau, is the latest addition to the Epicure range after a decade-hiatus, and is already well noted as a cigar to enjoy alone or as a preface to supper.  Light enough to engage newcomers yet seasoned and rich in flavours sufficient to more than satisfy any aficionado. In all, an evening to ease you back into the reality ahead of Autumn weeks after hopefully a restorative Summer.

Tuesday 24th September at 18.30 | The Drawing Room | £15.00 per person*
*Includes one glass Prosecco

When Simon Murray appeared on Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs”, the luxury for which he asked ahead of being cast away was “lots of pens and paper”. That is the least he would need to sketch out a life of three parts, all of which should be celebrated as one, with each constituent part also standing alone.

First, he served in the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian War, experiencing combat at close quarters. Then he began a business career in Asia and Hong Kong – where he advised the Governor Chris Patten during the return of the former British colony to China – and sat on the boards of Vodafone, Tommy Hilfiger, Hermes, and America’s General Electric, among others. He also formed the telecommunication concern, Orange, which was ultimately  sold for $36 billion. Not satisfied by all that, next up he became, at 64, the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported (which is, whisper it, almost as impressive as his wife, Jennifer, becoming the first women to circumnavigate the globe in a helicopter).

Join Simon, an acclaimed author and broadcaster, at the Drawing Room fireplace for a romp through his trilogy on earth packed into an hour of conversation. Follow this, as is traditional with the Rag Fireside Chat, by joining a select group of members for supper with Simon in the Coffee Room, where dialogue will continue wherever the table wishes to take things.

Friday 27th September at 18.30 | Coffee Room | £80 per person*
*The ticket includes a welcome drinks reception followed by a wine pairing three-course dinner.

In September 2021, the RAG raised a toast to the beginning of a new tradition at the Club Grouse Dinner. Due to its popularity and success, they are delighted to invite Rag members and guests to join them once more as they celebrate the official start of Britain’s 121-day grouse shooting season. Head Chef Stuart Hart and his team will again be cooking up a storm in the kitchen, preparing a special Grouse Dinner served with perfectly paired wines.

Join them for what promises to be a wonderful opportunity to gather in the comfort of The Coffee Room while indulging in a memorable culinary experience.

Tuesday 1st October at 18.00 | The Drawing Room | £10*
*Includes a glass of Wine on arrival

The Army & Navy Club Yacht Squadron (nee Sailing Circle) is delighted to invite all Rag members and guests to attend this talk by Sophie Neville and her husband Simon, who met thanks to her leading role in the iconic film “Swallows and Amazons”.

Any member with an interest in the book, the film, the Lake District, sailing, or indeed just a convivial evening at the Rag listening to an accomplished speaker, is very welcome.

Wednesday 2nd October at 12.30 | Clive Room | £65.00*
*Includes one glass Wine on arrival, 2 course Lunch with Coffee, and 2 glasses Wine with the meal

Sir Howard Davies has been one of our most notable public servants; stints as the deputy governor of the Bank of England, and director of the London School of Economics, chairmanships of, among other bodies, the UK Airports Commission, the London Library and the Financial Services Authority, and an involvement with the Tate as a trustee.… He was also once a judge on the Booker Prize panel.

As well as this, Sir Howard has held the highest office in the private sector, most recently as chairman of NatWest. Over lunch, he will share his thoughts on a life that has featured mixing with many of the great and the good, beginning at the Foreign Office followed by secondment to the Treasury and the role of principal for monetary policy for two years when Nigel Lawson was Chancellor of the Exchequer. 

Thursday 12th September 11.00 - 12.00 | The Drawing Room | £10.00 per person*

The Clubs 'Coffee + Connect' series has proven to be a great opportunity for Rag members to meet one another, share experiences and make new connections. Members Sarah Galbraith and Peter Mathews CMG look forward to welcoming you to this very enjoyable event.  A table will be booked in the Ribbon Bar & Terrace for those wishing to join Sarah and Peter for lunch afterwards.

*The ticket includes an assortment of Cakes with Tea and Coffee

BOOK HERE

Saturday 7th September 09.30 - 15.00 | £50.00 per person

Join Chef Hart in the kitchen for a Culinary Masterclass with Stuart and his team. The day will start at 9.30am with pastries and after a quick health and safety briefing you will be shown to your stations and guided through the ingredients of the day. The masterclass is followed by a sumptuous 2-course lunch in the Coffee Room with a couple of matching wines to taste.