Wednesday, 14 May 2008

14th mayDinner Wednesday

Northumbria dining pub of the year 2008

Starters
Fresh pea, English asparagus and spinach soup £3 V
North Shield’s Velvet crab bisque £5
Salad of endive, poached pear, Legram’s organic blue cheese and walnuts £5.50 V
Rhian’s homemade black pudding with poached free range egg and a devilled gravy £5.50
Wild St George’s mushrooms with herbs and garlic on toast £6 V
Traditionally garnished Scottish Smoked salmon £5
Scottish razor clams and scallops with garlic, chilli and lemon £7
Salad of Cold roast rib of beef and home corned local longhorn beef with crispy anchovies and hot horseradish £6.50
MAIN COURSES
Hake fillet with creamy Yukon gold mashed potato, ratatouille and a basil dressing £12
Roast leg of new season’s Kirkhale spring lamb, Dauphinoise potatoes, minted peas and broad beans £12
Bradley cottages Tamworth pork braised in a tomato herb sauce, Scottish surf calms and chickpeas £11
Round courgette stuffed with a provençal vegetable pilaf and local asparagus with a roast pepper and black olive sauce £10 V
Beer battered North Sea haddock with chunky chips, mushy peas and tartar sauce £10
Grilled wild trout fillet, Trillington sprouting broccoli, royal kidney heritage potatoes with a white wine sauce £12
Rump of 28 day aged Haydon bridge beef, chunky chips, garden leaf salad and béarnaise £14

Extras
Homemade organic bread and butter, garden leaf salad, creamy mashed potato, spring greens
Chunky chips and aioli, purple sprouting broccoli, heritage potatoes all £2.50

DESSERTS
Selection of Wheelbirks ice cream (wild cherry, jersey cream, dark chocolate) £4
Rhubarb and ginger crumble, rhubarb ice cream £5- a glass of Monbazilliac £3.50
Hot chocolate pudding with Alnwick rum caramel £5 – a glass of spiced Poncho Caballero £2.50
Burnt Northumbrian Cream £5 - a glass of Elysium black Muscat £4.50
Local cheeses from the board with biscuits and homemade bread £7 - a glass of C &B port £3
Black cherry bakewell tart with wild cherry ice cream £5- a glass of Pedro Ximenez £4
Tel: 01661 843 607 www.theFeathers.net
Gary Rhodes UK TV North east Food hero