Friday, 16 May 2008

16th may Dinner Friday

Northumbria dining pub of the year 2008

Starters
Fresh pea, English asparagus and spinach soup £4 V
North Shield’s Velvet crab bisque £5
Homemade spring spicy lamb merguez sausages, tomato and cucumber salad, harissa mayo £5
Rhian’s homemade black pudding with poached free range egg and a devilled gravy £5.50
Wild mushrooms with herbs; garlic and cider on toast £5 V
Sauté spring lambs sweetbreads with fresh peas, morel sauce and croutons £6
Half a dozen freshwater crayfish cooked in real ale with fennel £7
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, creamy minted peas, samphire and peach bloom heritage potatoes with white wine sauce £12
Peppered rump of 28 day aged Haydon bridge beef, chunky chips and garden leaf salad £14
Extras
Homemade organic bread and butter, garden leaf salad, creamy mashed potato, creamy minted peas
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
Sticky date pudding, butterscotch sauce £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