Restaurant Menu

Sample Menu

 Our menus are constantly changing depending on seasonality and weather  

Dorset Tasting Menu

TASTE OF DORSET

Sherborne Castle Wine

SPECIAL RESERVE DRY WHITE WINE ~ produced from grapes grown at Wake Court Vineyard on the Sherborne Castle Estate, Bishops Caundle, Sherborne, Dorset 

Bottle ~ £18.00               175ml glass ~ £4.25

STARTERS

SEA FOOD TRIO ~ £9.95

Brockhill crab bound in homemade mayonnaise

Home smoked Dorset trout with horseradish cream

Pan seared Portland scallop sat on a pea puree

 GAME TASTER ~ £8.95

Home smoked loin of venison with creamed beetroot

Pan seared wood pigeon breast on caramelised shallots & a port reduction

Dorset “scotch” bantam egg with wild boar sausage & plum chutney

VEGETARIAN DELIGHTS ~ £7.95

 Garlic Dorset down mushrooms

Blue Vinny Bavarois

Mini garden vegetable pie

MAIN COURSE

FISH SOURCED FROM POOLE ~ £17.95

Pan fried wild sea bass, seared Portland scallops, wilted spinach,

white wine velouté & crushed new potatoes   

GAME FROM THE TARRANT VALLEY ~ £15.95 

Pan roasted pheasant breast with confit leg, braised red cabbage,

château potatoes & a cider jus  

MANOR FARM ‘TARRANT GUNVILLE’ LAMB ~ £18.95

Herb crusted rack of lamb with roasted garlic & rosemary new potatoes

& a port & redcurrant sauce

HOME FARM ‘TARRANT GUNVILLE’ BEEF ~ £19.95

Famous mini Langton arms steak pie with a medallion of fillet and horseradish mash

 HOME GROWN VEGETARIAN DISH  ~ £12.95

Homemade butternut squash ravioli in a Dorset cheese, thyme & garlic sauce

& smoked cherry tomatoes

BLANDFORD FORUM TURKEY ~ £13.95 

Citrus crumbed turkey Escalopes, with Hand cut Chips,

lemon crème fraîche & dressed salad

CHEESE TASTER

 Dorset & West Country Cheeses ~ £4.95

Served with a selection of biscuits

 

 Mill stone Organic ~ A hard ewes milk cheese from North Wotton

 Dorset Blue Vinny ~ A hard unpasteurised blue veined cheese

 Westcombe Dairy Cheese ~ A blue veined hard cheddar

 Westcombe Dairy Mature Cheddar

 Westcombe Red ~ unpasteurised cheese

 Cranborne Chase Semi Soft Natural Rind Cheese ~ unpasteurised cow’s milk 

 Somerset Capricorn Goats Cheese ~ mild creamy soft cheese

 Godminster Vintage Blackeyed Susan ~ a soft organic cheese handmade with garlic & chive     

 Godminster Vipergrass ~ a soft organic cheese handmade with black pepper

Indian Blanket ~ a soft organic soft cheese handmade and smoked in Somerset using Jersey  cow’s milk

Lubborn Creamery Somerset Brie ~ delicious ripened Brie made using cow’s milk with class

DESSERT

ASSIETTE OF DESSERTS ~ £6.95

Dorset Apple Cake

Dorset Honey & rose ice cream

Blackberry mousse with lavender shortbread

All of our desserts including ice cream, breads and petit fours are made in house