Slow Roasted Tomato Arancini (V)
Served with pesto & slow roasted tomato sauce
The Melville Inn
Melville Nursery, Lasswade, Midlothian, EH18 1AR
- Disabled Parking
- Parking
- Disabled Toilets
FESTIVE MENU AT The Melville Inn
This year indulge in all things festive at your favourite local country pub in Lasswade.
This year our Festive Menu runs from 23rd November until 30th December (excluding Christmas Day and Boxing Day, when different extra-special menus are available instead).
Our chefs have selected the best seasonal ingredients to create an array of tasty treats for you to choose from. From just £27.95 for 3 courses, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
Discover our menu below and book your festive celebration today.
Festive Menu
STARTERS
Pan-fried Scallops and King Prawns* (+£2.50)
Served with tomato concasse, spring onions and lemon butter sauce
King Prawn & Mango Cocktail*
Dressed with a Bloody Mary marie rose sauce served with sourdough bread
Oven-baked button mushrooms* (V)
Cheddar & garlic sauce, truffle infused oil, pumpkin seeds, toasted rustic bread
Shallot & Armagnac Tart Tatin* (VE)
Served with pickled cherries & toasted pine nuts
Duck Parfait*
Served with a smokey flavoured tomato & apple chutney and toasted rustic bread
Today's soup (V)
Served with sourdough bread and butter. Vegan option available
MAINS
Forestiére Chicken Breast*
Stuffed with spinach & mozzarella, wrapped in pancetta with a wild mushroom sauce served with spinach and skin on fries
Hand-carved turkey breast
Served with a yorkshire pudding Cumberland & red onion pigs in blanket, roast potatoes, honey-roasted carrots & parsnips, glazed sprouts, Romano beans and gravy
Turkey, smoked pancetta & cranberry pie*
In a pancetta & leek sauce, topped with puff pastry, served with mash, glazed sprouts and a veal jus
8oz Sirloin Steak
Cooked to your liking and served with beef dripping sauce, thyme-roasted tomato, triple-cooked chips and slow-roasted garlic.
Upgrade to our 10oz Ribeye Steak for £4
Pan-Fried Seabass Fillets*
Served with steamed greens beans, crispy potatoes, clams, king prawns, bouillabaisse sauce topped with lemon Aioli
Roasted Squash and Brie Tart (V)
Filled with brie, vintage cheddar & truffle flavour sauce served with tenderstem® broccoli, crispy diced herb potatoes and a basil pesto
Curried Vegetable Wellington (VE)
Lightly spiced curried parsnip and butternut squash wrapped in vegan puff pastry served with tenderstem® broccoli & crispy parmentier potatoes
Slow-cooked pork belly*
With roasted apple, chestnut & wilted spinach, Dauphinoise potatoes, crackling and a red wine jus
SIDES
Red cabbage (+£2.50)
Brussel Sprouts (+£2.50)
Pigs in Blankets (+£2.95)
Trio of sides* (+£5.95)
Including Pigs in blankets, sprouts with pomegranate seeds, roast potatoes and red wine jus
Desserts
Festive Vanilla Crème Brûlée (V)
Glazed with cinnamon & nutmeg sugar, served with home-baked butter biscuit
Double Chocolate Brownie* (V)
With Irish Liqueur Ice cream
Cheese Board (V) (+£3)
Coastal Cheddar, Double Gloucester, Blue Shropshire, Cenarth Brie with a smokey flavoured tomato chutney, savoury biscuits, butter & grapes
Christmas pudding (V)*
Filled with vine fruits and soaked in rum, served warm with brandy sauce. Vegan alternative available (VE)
Trio of Ice cream (V)
Your choice of ice cream with Belgian chocolate sauce. Also refer to ice cream choice recipes for additional allergen & dietary information
Bramley Apple Pie
Served warm with custard. Vegan alternative available (VE)
Children's Festive Menu
Mains
Hand-carved turkey breast (+£7.50)
Served with lemon & thyme stuffing wrapped in bacon, a Cumberland pig in blanket, roast potatoes, honey-roasted carrots and parsnips, glazed sprouts, green beans and gravy
Desserts
Christmas pudding (VE) (+£2.50)
With mixed vine fruits, served with a vanilla soya custard
OUR SELECTION OF CHRISTMAS MENUS
Christmas deposit promise
Our festive menu requires a deposit of £5 per person for parties of 5 or more until 15th December, as well as the 28th, 29th and 30th December. (We will require a £5 per person for all party sizes after 6pm on 10th December). From 16th December until Christmas Eve all bookings will require a £5 per person deposit.
In the event of any changes to government guidelines that may affect your Christmas booking, your deposit will remain safe. If your booking cannot proceed in this eventuality, we will refund your deposit in full using the original payment method as long as we have 24 hours notice. To obtain your refund please just call the pub you placed your booking with.
