17th century charm

Lunch Bar Menu

Leek & potato soup

Crispy leeks, homemade bread

£5.50

 

Ortiz tuna & red onion melt

Mixed leaf salad

£5.50

 

Goat’s cheese & roasted figs

Chicory, balsamic, walnuts

£7.50

 

Duck liver parfait

Spiced apple chutney, cresses & croutons

£6.50

 

Thai salmon & crab fish cake

Prawn toast, pickled cabbage

£8.50

 

Honey roasted Gloucester Old Spot pork belly

Grain mustard mash, braised red cabbage, apple sauce, cider jus

£10.50

 

Hand made Salisbury plain beef burger

Seared foie gras, onion rings, triple cooked chips

£14.50

 

Cod & smoked haddock fish pie

Purple sprouting broccoli

£11.50

 

Homemade pork & sage sausage

Colcannon potatoes, red onion gravy

£8.95

 

Beer battered Brixham fish & chips

Triple cooked chips, mushy peas & tartare sauce

£12.95

 

 28 day aged sirloin steak

Triple cooked chips, Portobello mushroom, fine green beans, roasted vine tomatoes, brandy & peppercorn sauce

                                                                                                              £22.50                              

 

 

 

Evening menu

 

A glass of pink fizz!

Marquis de la tour (France)

 

£4.95

 

 

Starters

 

 

Leek & potato soup

“Ham, egg & chips”

£6.95

 

 

 

 Seared, diver-caught Lyme bay scallops

Smoked haddock kedgeree, parsnip espuma, crispy shallots

£12.95

 

 

 

Pig’s head

  Chorizo, caper, apple, crispy pig’s ear

£7.95

 

 

 

Open wild mushroom lasagne

Jerusalem artichoke velouté & crisps, baby onions

£8.50

 

 

Roast chicken & foie gras terrine

Piccalilli , foccacia

£8.50

 

 

 

 Jurassic coast spiced vanilla lobster cocktail

Sesame prawn toast

£11.95

 

 

Main Courses

 

 28 day aged sirloin steak

Triple cooked chips, Portobello mushroom, fine green beans, roasted vine tomatoes, brandy & peppercorn sauce

£19.50

 

 

Creedy Carver duck

Pan fried breast, duck leg sausage, fondant potato, wild garlic, pearl barley,

port jus

£18.95

 

North Dorset lamb

Cannon, shoulder, sweetbreads, dauphinoise potatoes, smoked peppers, roasting juices

£20.95

 

Slow roast belly of Gloucester Old Spot

Grain mustard mash, red cabbage, apple sauce, cider jus

£16.50

 

Pan fried line-caught Brixham sea bass

Haggis, neeps & tatties, whisky cream

£21.95

 

Roasted “tikka” cod loin

Coconut purée, spiced yellow peas, onion bhaji

£18.50

 

 

Blue cheese hash brown

Poached Cashmoor hen’s egg, purple sprouting, Hollandaise sauce

£13.50

 

 

 Side orders

 

       Basket of home-baked bread £2.50                      Seasonal vegetables £3.00

 

        Triple cooked chips £2.75                                          Mixed leaf salad £2.50

 

        Creamed leeks £3.50                          Purple sprouting with sesame & chilli £3.50

 

            Black Bomber cheese & cauliflower gratin £3.50

 

       Bearnaise Sauce £2.00

 

 

 

 

Desserts

 

Hot Valrhona chocolate fondant

Hazlenut parfait, poached cherries, sour cherry sorbet

£8.50

(With 75ml of Elysium Black Muscat £15.00)

 

Pineapple & passion fruit crème brulées

Pina colada sorbet

£6.95

 

Assiette of Yorkshire rhubarb

Rhubarb crumble, rhubarb bavarois, stem ginger ice cream

£6.95

(With 75ml of Debortoli Vat 5 Botrytis Semillon £10.95)

 

Duck egg custard tart

Plum compote, rum & raisin ice cream

£6.95

 

Selection of real English cheeses

£8.95

Finn

A rich un-pasteurised cow’s milk cheese in the style of a

French “triple crème”. The flavour is clean and nutty and the texture simply sublime.

This really is a sensational cheese, not to be missed.

 

Bosworth Ash

 This is a mature unpasteurised and award winning goats cheese, it is handmade in small amounts using traditional methods in Tamworth, Staffordshire. It has a soft and delicate taste and texture, this delicious cheese is rolled in salted wood ash giving it a jagged grey circumference beneath the pure white rind

 

Westcombe Raw Cheddar

From Westcombe in Somerset this is truly the cheddar all cheese lovers have been seeking. Organic, un-pasteurised and aged for around twenty months it is so strong it can actually make your teeth itch! Expect some blue mould to be present

 

Oxford Isis

This soft pasteurised cow’s cheese was first created by the Oxford colleges an answer to the French Epoisses, it is washed and matured in Oxfordshire honey mead, this gives the cheese a pronounced flavour and heady aroma, another absolute gem for lovers of real cheese

 

International Interlopers

 

Soumaintrain

This wonderful cheese is both a little sweet and a little salty, it is made with unpasteurised cow’s milk and hails from Yonne in Northern Burgundy, where it is washed in a solution of brine and Marc de Borgogne, this particular cheese has a white velvet bloom.

 

Roquefort

Unpasteurised sheep’s milk cheese from southern France aged in the caves of Combalou, it is white and tangy with a distinctive green mould. Legend has it that a youth was sat in the caves eating his lunch of bread and ewes milk cheese when he saw a beautiful girl in the distance, he abandoned his meal and ran to meet her, when he returned months later to the cave the mould had transformed his plain cheese into the magnificent Roquefort!