Christmas 2013

 

3 courses £22.50

 

Starters

Spiced butternut squash soup with nutmeg Chantilly cream

and cranberry flat bread £4.50

Pistachio coated Pearl Las bonbons with pear purée and

baked onion £4.50

Crispy slow braised pig cheek in mulled wine

roasted plums £5

Game terrine with toast and Cumberland sauce  £7 

Salmon four ways (smoked salmon mousse, nutmeg and star anise

pastrami, citrus gravadlax & cider poached salmon cubes) £7.50

                       

Mains

The Conway’s turkey galantine served with pigs in blanket, sprouts,

cranberry & apple sauce and roast potatoes £12.50

Slow braised Jacob’s ladder (beef rib) with ale and star anise molasses,

braised red cabbage purée and roasted parsnip £13.50

Crispy skate roll, chestnut purée, clove baked onion and

buttered kale and mulled wine syrup £11.50

Pan fried fillet of wild Welsh sea bass, mussel & saffron cream,

baked sprout and fondant potatoes £12.50

Mushroom, blue cheese and spinach strudel, chestnut beurre noisette

and roasted Jerusalem artichokes £9

 

Desserts

Deep fried hazelnut ice cream, espresso mousse and

bitter chocolate sauce £5

Laurent’s Christmas pudding with brandy cream £5

Bailey’s Pannetone bread and butter pudding with red wine

and cinnamon ice cream £5

Amaretto pannacotta with almond shortbread and our own

sloe gin jelly lolly £5

A selection of cheese and biscuits £7

 

 

Christmas day lunch £75

 

Pressed foie gras with homemade toasted malt loaf,

poached fig and pistachio salad

Crab cocktail, avocado mousse, chilli jam and

brioche croutons

Carpaccio of beef, horseradish ice cream, warm ox marrow,

shallot and red wine dressing

Roasted scallop, parmesan truffle salad, Jerusalem

artichokes puree

Blue cheese croquettes, cote du Rhone reduction, caramelised

chicory and dehydrated grapes

 

Turkey dinner with all the trimmings

Roasted duck breast, baked plums, foie gras pomme puree,

port and cinnamon sauce

Red wine poached halibut, chestnut puree, roasted leek hearts

and ash, red wine caramel

Roasted fillet of hake, king prawns, pak choi, chilli and grapefruit

Wild mushroom scotch egg, salsify, spinach and sweet piccalilli

 

Christmas pudding, brandy butter or brandy sauce

Sherry trifle, caramelised plums

Pear frangipane tart, pistachio and cardamom ice cream

Deep fried hazelnut ice cream, espresso mousse, bitter

chocolate sauce

6 different cheeses, homemade chutney and crackers