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
Sauté spring lambs sweetbreads with fresh peas, morel sauce and croutons £6
Scottish razor clams and surf clams with garlic, chilli and lemon £6 or as a main with chunky chips and alioli £12
The Feather’s home produced charcuterie board, toast and pickles £6.50
MAIN COURSES
Bradley cottages Tamworth pork braised in a tomato herb sauce with chorizo, Scottish surf clams and chickpeas £11
Local new seasons lamb braised with spring vegetables and Jersey royal potatoes £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 sea trout fillet, Trillington sprouting broccoli, royal kidney heritage potatoes with
white wine sauce £12
Cranston’s Cumberland sausage, creamy Yukon gold mashed heritage potatoes, real ale gravy £9
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
Chocolate brownie, chocolate sauce, jersey cream ice cream £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