SAMPLE MENU
to start
baked goats cheese, red pepper foam, caperberries, walnut vinagrette £6.50
potted salmon, warm toast, horseradish crème fraiche £6.95
a bowl of freshly made soup with a hunk of bread £4.50
truffle’d chicken liver parfait, brioche, port jellies £6.50
oxford blue welsh rarebit, red onion compote £4.50
breads, oils, olives, corn £4.50
sides £3
seasoned chips, tiptree ketchup
chilli fried sweet corn, olives
potato of the day
chefs salad
sauces £0.75
ketchup, brown sauce, aioli
something more
28 day aged dedham vale pave steak, chips, béarnaise foam, roasted vine cherry tomatoes, field mushrooms £18
free range chicken caeser salad, crisp parma bacon, white anchovies, parmesan tuille, garlic croutons £12
beer & vodka battered cod and chips, vinegar mist, pease pudding, pickled quails egg, tartar relish £12
fresh ground 28 day aged dedham vale hamburger served medium, with the works £12
slow roast belly of shalford farm pork, bubble and squeak, cider poached apples £14
leek and blue cheese quiche, warm potato salad, our own salad cream £9.50
slow cooked beetroot risotto, caramelised baby beets, tahoon cress £9.50
bangers and mash, caramelised onion gravy £12
potato, pea and spinach curry £9.50
sublime fish and shell fish pie £12
sandwiches
all sandwiches can be served on granary or white bread
clarice roast chicken club sandwich served with bacon, lettuce, tomato and egg mayonnaise £7
smoked salmon and gruyere croque monsieur with chive cream cheese £5
mature english cheddar, essex regiment chutney, baby salad leaves £5
garlic roasted portabello mushroom, goats cheese & pesto £5
suffolk smoked bacon, crisp lettuce and plum tomato £5
honey roast ham, dijon mustard, rocket leaves £5
egg mayonnaise and sprouting cress £5
prawn cocktail £5
puddings
chocolate brownie, brown bread ice cream, chocolate sauce, white chocolate crumbs £5.50
sticky toffee pudding, butterscotch sauce, date and brandy ice cream £5.50
apple and cinnamon scones, clotted cream, tiptree strawberry jam £5.50
rhubarb and custard burnt cambridge cream, flamed at the table £5.50
orange and almond cake , cream chantilly £5.50
a tasting plate of british cheeses £5.50
a selection of our own ice creams and sorbets, please ask for current flavours £5.50

Finalist Small Restaurant of the Year 2010
Finalist Front of House Service of the Year 2010
Essex Restaurant of the Year 2009
Essex Chef of the Year 2008
Colchester Chef of the Year 2010
Colchester Chef of the Year 2009
Colchester Chef of the Year 2008
Colchester Chef of the Year 2007
Evening Gazette 9/10