Northumbria dining pub of the year 2008
Dinner Friday
2nd may
Starters
Carrot and parsnip soup £3 V
Ravensworth grange Middlewhite pig’s brains on toast with sage butter £4
Salad of endive, poached pear, legram’s organic blue cheese, and walnuts £5.50 V
Foie gras, home cured ham and corn fed chicken terrine with pickled golden raisins and toast £7
Rhian’s homemade black pudding with poached free range egg and a devilled gravy £5.50
Grilled Scottish razor clams with garlic, chilli and lemon £6
North Sea fish and shellfish soup with croutons and spicy mayo £5
Grilled new season’s asparagus with fried local duck egg £5 V
Potted North Sea brown shrimps with toast, watercress and lemon £6
MAIN COURSES
North shields hake steak with chickpeas, surf clams, mussels, and crispy potatoes £12
Beer battered North Sea haddock with chunky chips, mushy peas and tartar sauce £10
Freshwater trout and carp fish cake with green herb mayo, heritage potatoes and watercress £9
Pot roast local highland cattle beef in red wine with black olives, olive oil crushed heritage
Potatoes and purple sprouting broccoli £12
Goosnargh duck leg with a cassoulet of beans, Cumberland sausage and rare breed pork £11
Spring vegetable risotto with Laura Thearle’s fresh goats cheese stuffed piquillo peppers
and gem lettuce salad £10 V
Grilled local Roe venison, dauphinoise potatoes, braised red cabbage and a green peppercorn sauce £12
Extras
Homemade organic bread and butter, garden leaf salad, creamy mashed potato, braised
red cabbage, 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
Pink rhubarb and almond bakewell tart £5- a glass of Monbazilliac £3.50
Hot chocolate pudding with Alnwick rum caramel £5 (20 minutes cooking time) – a glass of spiced brandy liqueur 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
Sticky toffee date and ginger pudding with butterscotch sauce £5- a glass of Pedro Ximenez £4
Tel: 01661 843 607 www.theFeathers.net
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