Available from Monday to Saturday this delicious menu is served throughout the day featuring an array of tasty dishes, such as handmade dough sticks and chargrilled lamb koftas to start, followed by classic mains like beer-battered fish and chips and steak & ale pie.

Monday to Saturday Menu

Starters and Sharers

Sticky platter

maple-glazed chicken wings, prawns & chorizo in garlic butter, lamb koftas, salt & pepper calamari and a stone-baked garlic flatbread

Handmade dough sticks

served with garlic butter, pesto and chipotle chilli mayonnaise (V)

Box-baked Camembert

topped with pumpkin seeds, served with celery and rustic bread (V)

Stone-baked flatbread

topped with garlic butter (V)

Duo of pâté*

coarse pork & Madeira pâté and duck liver parfait, served with Bramley apple butter, baby gherkins and rustic bread

Oven-baked button and Portobello mushrooms

in a garlic & mature Cheddar sauce, served with rustic bread (V)

Salt & pepper calamari

with chorizo-flavour seasoning and chipotle chilli mayonnaise

Chargrilled lamb koftas

served with tzatziki and dressed slaw

Today’s soup

with rustic bread

Prawn & lobster cocktail*

dressed with lobster mayonnaise served with rustic bread.

Scallops & chorizo

roasted in garlic butter, served with warm rustic bread

Mains

Slow-cooked pork belly*

with dauphinoise potatoes, green beans, courgettes, honey-roasted carrots and an elderflower & blackberry jus
Add: Scallops (£4)

Steak & ale pie*

slow-cooked beef in a treacle, root vegetable & ale sauce, topped with puff pastry, served with mash, seasonal vegetables and a jug of gravy

Chicken & mushroom pie*

in a chardonnay, woodland mushroom & leek sauce, topped with puff pastry, served with spring onion mash and seasonal vegetables

Hunter's chicken

chargrilled chicken breast, topped with smoked Cheddar and a 4oz gammon steak served with triple-cooked chips and barbecue sauce

Thyme-roasted plum tomato tart

basil & paprika pastry case filled with a tomato & Bramley apple compote, topped with roasted red peppers and feta (V)

Handmade lobster fishcake

with a bouillabaisse sauce, served with broccoli and baby potatoes

8oz gammon steak and free range egg

served with triple-cooked chips

Fish and chips*

beer-battered cod, served with triple-cooked chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce

Seared fillet of sea bass*

with crushed baby potatoes, asparagus and a lobster & samphire sauce

Rich beef & red wine lasagne*

minced beef and red wine ragu with a mature cheddar béchamel sauce, paprika and oregano crumb topping. Served with your choice of a dressed side salad or triple-cooked chips

Cheese & herb-crusted cod loin

served with roasted vegetable rice and grains, beluga lentils, baby spinach and a bouillabaisse sauce

STEAKS & BURGERS

Steaks

Our steaks are expertly aged for superb flavour and tenderness and come served with triple-cooked chips, homemade onion rings and a thyme-roasted tomato.

Steak Sauces

Choose from Béarnaise*, Blacksticks Blue cheese or peppercorn* sauce

Add: Garlic prawns £3 | Oven-baked garlic & cheese mushrooms (V) £2.50 | Extra onion rings (V) £2.50

Burgers

All our burgers are served with skin-on fries.

Chargrilled beef burger

served in a brioche bun with burger relish and homemade onion rings

Wagyu burger

premium beef, specially bred for its unique texture and mouth-watering flavour, served in a brioche bun with tomato salsa, mixed leaf & horseradish salad and homemade onion rings

Spiced chickpea, aubergine & spinach burger

served in a rustic roll, dressed with a spiced red pepper sauce, served with a pesto & tomato dip (V)

Add: Burger relish (V) £1 | Smoked Chedder £1 | Sweet cured streaky bacon £1

Stone-baked Pizzas & Salads

Pizzas

All our pizzas are made with hand-stretched dough, stone-baked to order. Add triple-cooked chips for £1.50

Meat feast

chicken, pork & fennel sausage, crispy bacon, mozzarella and a red onion chutney

Roasted vegetable & pesto

red pepper, butternut squash, red onion, spinach and mozzarella (V)

Cajun spiced chicken

with chilli, roasted red pepper, mozzarella and red onion

Four cheese

Blacksticks Blue, Brie, mature Cheddar, mozzarella and red onion (V)

Salads

Caesar salad

dressed cos lettuce with bacon lardons, anchovies and Gran Moravia cheese, served with stone-baked garlic flatbread
Add: Chicken breast £3 | Chargrilled halloumi £3

Wholefood winter salad (VE)

roasted butternut squash with onion, cauliflower, broccoli, beetroot, black rice and quinoa in a sun dried tomato and garlic dressing (ve)
Add: Chicken breast £3 | Chargrilled halloumi £3

Sandwiches & Lunch Bites

Ideal for smaller appetites at lunchtime, available Monday - Saturday until 5pm. All sandwiches are served with skin-on fries.

Cod fish finger sandwich*

beer-battered cod goujons and tartare sauce

Chicken BLT sandwich

chargrilled chicken breast, sweet cured streaky bacon, gem lettuce and tomato

Ham & cheese melt sandwich

served warm from our stone-baked oven

Chargrilled rump steak sandwich (4oz)

with horseradish mayonnaise and fried onions

4oz gammon steak and free range egg

with triple-cooked chips

Roasted vegetable & chutney wrap (V)

roasted butternut squash, quinoa, vegetables and a smokey tomato chutney in a beetroot and chia seed wrap, served with dressed slaw (V)

Handmade lobster fishcakes

with a bouillabaisse sauce, served with broccoli and baby potatoes

Fish and chips

beer-battered cod goujons, mushy peas and tartare sauce

Wholefood winter salad (VE)

roasted butternut squash with onion, cauliflower, broccoli, beetroot, black rice and quinoa in a sun dried tomato and garlic dressing (ve)
Add: Chicken breast £3 | Chargrilled halloumi £3

SIDES

PUDDINGS

Lemon Meringue Pie (v)

with raspberry coulis

HOT DRINK AND A MINI PUDDING - £5.25

Choose one of our hot drinks with one of these mini puddings (add a liqueur to your hot drink for an extra £1.35)

Mini crumble of the day (V)
Mini toffee milk tart (VE)
Mini butterscotch crème caramel panna cotta
Eton mess (V)
Belgian chocolate brownie* (V)

* = Contains alcohol.
† = Contains tree nuts and/or peanuts
(V) = made with vegetarian ingredients; (ve) = made with vegan ingredients, however, some of our preparation and cooking methods could affect this.

If you require more information, please ask your server.

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