á la carte menu
Our á la carte menu is served daily from 12noon-3pm, 6pm-10:30pm (11pm Friday and Saturday) and all day, on Sundays.
Our set menu is offered daily 12noon – 7pm and roast beef, with all the traditional accompaniments, is always on the menu on for Sunday Lunch.
• Bread & olives, balsamic & olive oil £2.50
Oysters & caviar
• Half dozen pickled oysters, oyster cress, caraway toast £8.00
• Half dozen Irish rock oysters served with the traditional accompaniments £7.50
• Oscietra caviar, blinis, sour cream, cured salmon £30.00
Starters
• Spiced duck spring roll, sweet & sour peppers, lime & coriander £7.00
v Hazelnut crusted goat’s cheese, truffle honey, celeriac & apple salad, hazelnut vinaigrette £7.50
• Fish soup, rouille, croutons, gruyère £6.95
• Crispy fried salt & pepper squid, oriental salad, chilli jam £7.00
• Pea & crème fraiche risotto cake; asparagus, smoked salmon and shaved fennel salad, lemon & mint £7.50
• Rabbit, pistachio & smoked bacon terrine, sour dough toast, crunchy vegetables £7.50
• Crispy diver scallop roes; red pepper coulis; lime, corriander & tomato salad £8.00
• Brasserie herbed pancake baked with kirsch and gruyère cream, spinach, ham and mushrooms £6.95
• Dill and lemon cured Shetland salmon, cucumber and apple, horseradish cream £7.25
• Foie gras & chicken liver parfait, toasted brioche, red onion marmalade £7.50
• Warm lobster, basil & plum tomato salad, ginger & coriander cress £13.95
• English cured ‘parma’ ham; asparagus, fried duck egg £8.50 Cured air dried ham from Cumbrian butcher Richard Woodall
v Barley couscous, artichoke, basil & tomato stew £7.00 (As a larger main course portion with baba ganouj aubergine fritters £12.50)
v = vegetarian dish
Main course dishes
• Lemon sole fillets, seared diver scallops, lime & crème fraiche spinach, spiced tomato & cumin £18.00
• Pan fried fillet of seabass, fricassée of baby squid, saffron, onion & tomato £17.50
• Red mullet fillets, mussels and tapenade, barley couscous; mediterranean vegetable ratatouille, red pepper coulis £17.50
• Monkfish baked in parma ham, confit lemon, white beans & chorizo £17.80
v Baked parmigiano, layers of courgette, tomato, aubergine and mozzarella; basil, parmesan, olives, confit tomato balsamic £14.00
v Spinach, ricotta and mild chilli fi lo, sautée of summer vegetables, pimento dressing £14.00
• Chicken breast baked with truffle butter. Wild mushroom fricassee, garlic mash. Celeriac puree £17.00
• Stuffed saddle of rabbit, confit rabbit & mustard potato cake, tarragon mustard cream £17.50
• Sticky glazed honey and cinnamon duck breast, glazed spring vegetables, crispy potato £18.50
• Pepper roast venison, shallot tatin, cauliflower purée, blackberry £20.00
• Morrocan spiced rump of local lamb, harissa, chargrilled mediterranean vegetables, barley couscous £19.00
• Sirloin steak, béarnaise sauce, watercress, roast rosemary onions, confit tomato £20.00
• Old spot belly and loin, walnut crust, cider potato, glazed cabbage, apple compôte £17.00
• Aberdeen beef fillet, glazed french beans, red wine & marrow bone butter, fondant potato, jus £23.00
• 10 oz sirloin steak or 8 oz fillet steak; watercress, confit tomato and field mushroom; with café de Paris butter or béarnaise or beaujolais marrow bone butter £20.00 Well fed, well bred, well hung local Aberdeen beef
v = vegetarian dish
Extras
• Potatoes: chips £3.00, mash £3.00, dauphinoise £3.00
• Barley couscous, tomato vinaigrette £3.00
• Field mushrooms, lemon, garlic £4.00
• Mixed salad £3.00
• French beans £3.50
• Buttered spinach £3.80
• Asparagus hollandaise £5.00
Cheese, Savoury, and Desserts
• An interesting and unusual selection of local and British farmhouse cheeses, biscuits, chutney, celery £7.80
• Baked Alaska £6.00**
• Chocolate cookie, peanut butter ice cream, chocolate mousse £6.00
• Raspberry soufflé, raspberry coulis £6.50**
• Crème brûlée, shortbread £5.00
• Vanilla panacotta, rhubarb, strawberry & mint £5.50
• Eton mess knickerbocker glory £6.25*
• Lemon tart, raspberry sorbet £5.50
• Pear & almond bakewell pudding, blackberry ripple ice cream £6.00*
• Dark chocolate fondant, pistachio ice cream £6.50**
• Strawberry mousse, sorbet & shortbread, glazed strawberries £6.00
• Sticky toffee pudding, toffee sauce, clotted cream £6.25
* Wheat free.
** Baked to order and will take a little longer.
All desserts, ice cream and sorbet are homemade on the premises.
Tea, Coffee and Petits Fours
• A selection of infusions, rooibos chai & teas £2.25
• Espresso £2.25
• Double Espresso £2.65
• Cappuccino £2.65
• A selection of brasserie petits fours £3.00
Milky bar dipped strawberries • homemade dark chocolate truffles • white chocolate fudge
PLEASE NOTE: our kitchen contains nuts