As
well as delicious and extensive breakfasts, we offer evening meals to guests and
non-residents, by arrangement. These are on a set menu basis, vegetarian or vegan,
and draw inspiration from traditional and world cuisine. Colour and flavour will
be paramount. We aim to use the best local, fairly-traded, home produced and/or
organic produce we can obtain.
We
hold a full licence and have vegetarian and vegan wines and beers available.
Breakfast
Fresh fruit salad, juice, yogurt, cereals, home-made muesli, dried fruit, freshly baked
bread and preserves, and...
Cooked breakfast, including egg as you like it, tomatoes, beans, vegan sausage,
potato rosti, mushrooms, toast
Seasonal specials
Tea/ coffee/herbal /fruit drink
Menu ideas
All dishes are vegan, unless stated otherwise. All dishes are subject to availability of ingredients. First person to book a meal can choose, or plan with fellow guests. Only one menu available for each meal. The list is not exhaustive, do suggest other things as well!
Starters
- Carrot and coconut soup
- Roasted tomato soup - best when tomatoes are in season, summer
- Asparagus, with lemon sauce, or not. Best when in season, May.
- Carrot and orange soup
- Mushroom soup
- French onion soup with croutons
- Warm pear salad, with or without stilton cheese
- Mezze - houmous, olive tapenade, guacamole, crudite, dough balls - can be main course
Sushi. Can be served as a main course.
- Pasta with artichoke hearts, sundried tomatoes and olives, can be main course
- Corn chowder, can have cheese added
- Artichoke and carrot soup - in season, winter and early spring
- Lentil and tomato dahl
- Pasta with cream and walnuts, can be a main course
- Mushroom or mushroom and walnut pate
- Beetroot soup - seasonal
- Filled mushrooms, can be vegan or not
- Mini pizzas, can be vegan or not, can be main course
- Pasta with lemon sauce, sundried tomatoes, can be main course
- Leek and potato soup
- Globe artichoke, seasonal
- Pasta salad
All served with home baked rolls or bread
Main courses
- Thai green curry
- Onion tart (not vegan)
- Quinoa filled pepper, with currants and capers, often served with rich tomato sauce
- Nut roast, made with roasted nuts, with gravy or rich tomato sauce
- Mixed curries
- Caramelised red onion tartlets, can be served with goats cheese
- Vegetable satay
- Spice coated tofu with maple syrup and lemon glaze
- Pancakes with eg spinach or mushroom filling, with rich cheese sauce (not vegan)
- Butterbean and mushroom puff pastry parcel
- Minted couscous with lemon and rosemary infused roast vegetables
- Spinach lasagne
- Tomato and goats cheese charlotte (not vegan)
- Asparagus, broad bean, mushroom or other risotto, depending on availability and season
Leek, spinach and stilton tart (not vegan)
- Mushroom, asparagus or any other vegetable tartlets, seasonal
- Moussaka
Desserts
- Steamed ginger and fruit pudding with lemon and ginger sauce
- Pan fried pineapple, with or without rum
- Meringues with fresh fruit and cream (not vegan)!
- Lemon tart (not vegan)
- Chocolate sorbet, with fresh raspberries, strawberries etc, depending upon availability.
- Pear, almond and amaretto filo tartlet
- Banana and ginger pancakes
- Chocolate pots, with or without cointreau or other spirit!
- Mango sorbet
- Apple and almond pudding (not vegan - possibly veganisable!)
- Blackcurrant or other fruit tartlet, depending on availability, seasonal
- Spiced apple and pecan or walnut crumble, or rhubarb, or gooseberry, depending on season and availability
- Bread and butter pudding (not vegan - possibly veganisable!)
- Chocolate cloud cake - no flour (not vegan)
- Caribbean bananas, with rum and raisins
- Lemon pudding (not vegan)
- Pears with ginger and star anise
- Fruit kebabs with chocolate sauce
- Rhubarb or other fruit trifle, can be vegan
- Chocolate torte
- Poached pear in red wine - subject to availability of good pears
- Strawberries with hazelnut shortcake - can be vegan, seasonal
All meals accompanied by vegetables or salad where appropriate. All meals finished with hot drink and chocolates. £19.50, three course, £14.50, any two courses. Always happy to try out new things! Always happy to be asked for a surprise, if you prefer, or to be told only the things you would prefer not to have. Children's menus can also be devised around preferences. Sauces and accompaniment can be swapped around.
