Food

As well as a regular Monthly Menu we offer an ever changing Specials Board with a variety of starters, main courses and sweets. Please also see the Events page for details of our very popular themed weeks including Lobster and Shellfish Week and Game Week. Why not cheer up the start of the week with our Monday Evening Special. Buy one main course and get another free (lower priced course is free). Dining Club members enjoy further benefits, so why not join? The restaurant is available to hire for private functions on Sunday and Monday evenings.

With the change to a Monthly Menu we regret we no longer publish the menu on our website.
However, below are examples of the dishes often available in our restaurant.

Pre Starters
Toasted ciabatta with balsamic olive oil (v)
Bowl of mixed olives (v)
Garlic bread (v)
Bruschetta topped with tomato and olives (v)
Bruschetta topped with tomato and pesto (v)

Starters
Moules mariniéres with garlic bread.
Roasted Mediterranean vegetable & buffalo mozzarella tartlet with a sun blushed tomato dressing & baby leaf salad (v).
Curried crab risotto with pan roasted langoustines, rocket & parmesan shavings.
Deep fried whitebait with homemade tartare sauce & granary bread.
Broccoli & stilton soup (v).
Carpaccio of 5 spiced Gressingham duck breast with an Asian noodle & sesame salad and ginger infused soy dressing.
Pan seared king scallops with a soft boiled quail’s egg, baby leeks, parmesan tuile and a light grain mustard vinaigrette.
Homemade papperdelle pasta with Scottish smoked salmon, langoustines and a shallot & tomato dressing.
Crab, tiger prawn & salmon caviar cocktail with granary bread.

Crabs, Lobsters & Oysters    Available by pre-order (48 hrs)
Whole native brown crab.
Whole native lobster, prepared to your liking.
Fruit de mer (for two people).
Six or a dozen colchester oysters.

Main Courses - Seafood
Smoked haddock, bacon & pea fishcakes with skinny fries and horseradish mayonnaise.
Adnam’s beer battered cod fillet with hand cut chips, peas and homemade tartare sauce.
Moules mariniéres with skinny fries.
Paupiette of plaice stuffed with smoked salmon, crushed new potatoes, sprouting broccoli and a salmon caviar & caper butter sauce.
Chargrilled marlin steak with Asian stir fry vegetables, ginger & soy dressing, Japanese bread crumbed tiger prawn and coconut infused rice.
Grilled escalopes of salmon with a celeriac purée, spring onion potato cake, chargrilled baby leeks and sauce vierge dressing.
Homemade papperdelle pasta with Scottish smoked salmon, langoustines and a shallot & tomato dressing served with garlic bread.
Pan roasted barramundi fillet with roasted garlic mash, a warm salad of braised puy lentils, wild mushrooms & thyme with roasted baby fennel.
Oven baked halibut fillet with a mussel, shallot & pea sauce, wilted spinach and buttered new potatoes.

Main Courses - Non Seafood
Lamb 2 ways: Pan roasted cannon of lamb with braised lamb shoulder ballentine, served with dauphinoise potatoes, sprouting broccoli & port jus.
Wild mushroom, thyme & red onion steamed suet pudding with mash potato & grain mustard creamed leeks (v).
Chargrilled pork loin steak with sautéed new potatoes, fine green beans, Aspall’s cider sauce & apple purée.
Chargrilled rump steak with roasted field mushroom, cherry vine tomatoes, garlic butter and skinny fries.

Homemade Desserts
Sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce and banana ice cream.
Dark chocolate truffle slice with espresso cream & hazelnut praline.
Warm pear & frangipane tartlet with a pear & poire William purée, vanilla bean ice cream & pear crisp.
Brioche bread & butter pudding with sauce anglaise.
Selection of luxury ice-creams and sorbets.
Iced white chocolate & vanilla bean parfait with blackcurrant sorbet & honeycomb.
Cheese board selection.
Trio of desserts: Brioche bread and butter pudding with sauce anglaise, Dark chocolate truffle slice
and a warm pear & frangipane tartlet.

Sundays
		We serve our full menu plus a selection of locally sourced roasts ................................................From £8.95

Please note:

• Bones - Our fish dishes may contain bones.
• Nuts - Our chefs do use nuts in some of their dishes, therefore we cannot guarantee that our food is nut free.
• Special Needs - Our chefs are happy to meet special dietary requirements wherever possible.