Thursday, 31 May 2007

May 31st Evening

STARTERS AND LIGHT LUNCHES
Wild mushroom soup with English pea puree £3.95 V
Selection of home cured meats, toast and pickles £4.95
English asparagus tips with a poached duck egg and broad beans £4.95 V
Smoked mackerel, new potato salad and baked beetroot £5.95
Rhian’s black pudding with poached free range egg and devilled gravy £4.95
MAIN COURSES
Poached smoked North Sea Haddock, creamy mashed potato, plum tomato vinaigrette £10.95
Lentil and toasted seed bake with buttered greens, fried potatoes and red wine gravy £7.95 V
Roast Northumberland Lamb, spring vegetables braised in claret with thyme £12.95
Crispy leg of Reg Johnston’s duck, slow cooked beans, pork and herbs £9.95
Sea Bass fillet, English peas and beans, heritage new potatoes, herb butter sauce £11.95
Ragout of English courgettes, peppers, fennel, with a pearl barley pilaf £8.95 V
DESSERTS
Selection of Wheelbirk’s ice cream (wild cherry, Chocolate and Jersey cream,) £3.95
Burnt Northumbrian cream £4.95
(Suggested accompaniment – a glass of Elysium black Muscat £3.25)
Sticky toffee pudding £4.95
Plum and Alnwick Rum jelly, spiced biscuits, Northumberland cream £4.95
Dark chocolate pear and almond tart £4.95
Selection of Northumbrian cheeses £6.00
(Suggested accompaniment – a glass of Pocas LBV Port £2.00)

Pumphrey’s teas, coffee and decaffeinated coffee £ 1.50