Friday, 10 August 2007

10th August lunch

STARTERS AND LIGHT LUNCHES
Chilled English cucumber and garden herb soup £3 V
Homemade brawn with piccalilli and toast £3
Rhian’s black pudding with free range egg and a devilled gravy £4
Local Field mushrooms with Durham black velvet on toast V £5
House pâté with toast, celeriac coleslaw and pickles £5
Hunter house farm fresh goats cheese, cucumber, olives and tomato with oregano £6 V
MAIN COURSES
Haltwistle Northumberland sausage, creamy mashed potato and real ale gravy £8
Hommity pie of Doddington’s cheese and potato with creamed leeks and wild mushrooms £8 V
Beer battered hake, chunky chips; mushy peas and tartare sauce £8
Northumberland ploughman’s lunch £7V – with a glass of Weston’s Scrumpy £1
Line caught local mackerel, ‘royal kidney’ heritage potatoes, samphire and runner beans £8
Rare grilled Highland cattle feather steak, chunky chips, garlic mayonnaise and garden leaf salad £8
EXTRAS
Creamy mash, buttered local new potatoes, green salad, chunky chips and garlic mayo, grilled corn on the cob, home made organic bread and butter all £2 each
DESSERTS
Burnt Northumbrian cream £4.50
Selection of Wheelbirk’s ice cream (Jersey cream, wild cherry, orange milk ice) £4
Fresh Hedley blackcurrant fool £4
Pumphrey’s teas, coffee and decaffeinated coffee from £1.95
Wide choice of rare malt whiskies, fine Cognac and other digestives available