Saturday, 23 June 2007

Saturday 23rd June Dinner

STARTERS
Fresh tomato and saffron soup £3.95 V
Grilled duck livers wrapped in Northumbrian dry cured bacon in a Mad eira sauce £5.95
Rhian’s black pudding with poached free range egg and devilled gravy £4.95
Smooth corn-fed chicken liver pâté, toast and piccalilli £5.95
North Atlantic red mullet and squid, courgettes, peppers and slow roast tomatoes with basil £5.95
Salad of baked beetroot, hunter house farm fresh goats cheese, warm baby plum tomatoes with aioli and herbs £5.95 or £8.95 as a main V
MAIN COURSES
Hommity pie of potatoes, sage and Doddington’s cheese with bashed neeps, and button mushrooms £8.95 V
Beer battered fish and chunky chips with tartare sauce and mushy peas £9.95
Roast Reg Johnston’s, Goosnargh duck, lentils, red wine and dauphinoise potato £12.95
Wild North sea caught Turbot, with English asparagus, Jersey royals and béarnaise £14.95
Cranston’s Cumberland sausage, creamy mash and real ale gravy £8.95
Home cured Northumberland pork, braised summer beans and herb breadcrumbs £8.95
Peppered sirloin of 21 day aged Longlee Charolais beef, chunky chips and salad £15.95
DESSERTS
Burnt Northumbrian cream £4.95 - with a glass of Elysium Black Muscat £4.50
English summer berry and rhubarb custard tart £4.95 - with a glass of Monbazillac £3.95
Selection of Wheelbirk’s ice cream (wild cherry, Chocolate and Jersey cream,) £3.95
Hot chocolate fondant, blackberry compote £4.50 - with a glass of Ambre Rivesalles vin doux naturel £4.95
Selection of Northumberland cheeses £6.95 - with a glass of Pocas LBV Port £2.95
Peach and English raspberry Melba, with Wheelbriks vanilla ice cream £4.95
Pumphrey’s teas, coffee and decaffeinated coffee from £ 1.50