Mike & Janet

Windy, Ivana, Kevin & Kirsty

Mike, Kate and friends

In the light of our continued success in the Taste of the West Awards we are hosting a weekend of menus showcasing the best food that Dorset can offer.

Dorset has a wealth of fabulous food, from our rolling farm land we produce amazing meat and game, incredible fish and sea food from the beautiful Jurassic Coast and have producers of fine cheeses. Dorset can produce all that you need. With Head Chef Sebastian Paulinyi we have selected the best food that our county can offer.

Both Beer and Wine from Dorset will be on sale over the weekend

Dorset producers are among the countries finest so come along and celebrate with us our 10 year association with The Taste of the West Awards On

Friday 19^th, Saturday 20^th and Sunday 21^st November

Taste of the west awards – Gold in 2006, 2007, 2009 and silver in 2010

Speak to a member of staff for further details or to reserve a table

 TASTE OF DORSET

STARTERS

SEA FOOD TRIO ~ £9.95

 Tian of Brockhill crab bound in homemade mayonnaise

Home smoked Dorset trout with horseradish cream

    Pan seared Portland scallop sat on a pea puree

GAME TASTER ~ £8.25

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, 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

CRIB HOUSE FARM ‘STURMINSTER NEWTON’ PORK ~ £15.95

Chef’s special confit belly pork, crackling, champ mash & a grain mustard cream

HOME FARM ‘TARRANT GUNVILLE’ BEEF ~ £17.95

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 wedge & dressed salad

 A SELECTION OF HOME & LOCALLY GROWN VEGETABLES WILL BE SERVED TO YOUR TABLE.

PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK IF THERE’S ANY DIETARY REQUIREMENT.

Finalists in The Pub Food Awards 2000

Winner of Meat Pub of the year 2000

Winner of waiter of the year 2000

Finalist in Accommodation pub of the year 2000

Our guest accommodation has been awarded 4 star rating since 2000

Proprietor Barbara Cossins received Highly Commended Business Women of the Year 2001  

Finalist for free house of the year 2003

AA Dining rosette 2005 – 2009

Taste of the west awards – Gold in 2006, 2007, 2009 and silver in 2010

 West country Gastro pub of the year 2008 in the Great British Pub Awards

We are thrilled to be awarded a Silver Award in the Dining Pub Category from the Taste of the West 2010. Whilst I was disappointed to be down graded from a Gold award, I do take comfort that no Gold Award was issued for our category in Dorset.

We continue to stay local; the majority of our vegetables come from our own garden (update to follow!) We make as much as is possible on the premises, from bread to soup and even ice cream. Our suppliers continue to be local… maybe we are too Dorset based? We await the judge’s comments!

To celebrate our success in the awards we will be running a special menu on the weekend of 19^th – 21^st November highlighting Dorset’s Fabulous seasonal produce. We will be posting a menu soon!

Halloween

Halloween fell at the end of half term and this year we decided to celebrate in style! The children arrived in amazing fancy dress and were rewarded with homemade toffee apples and chocolate coated apples, as well as sweeties and other treats. Kerry, Peter, Mark and Hugh from our front of house team entered into the spirit and worked in fancy dress. The magician wowed everybody as he worked the tables. Our thanks go to him, and everybody who made the effort to turn the day into such fun.

Garden Update

I have to say that I’m very proud of our vegetable garden this year, and with Brian’s hard work we have had a fairly constant supply of vegetables fresh to our kitchen and your plate! Currently we are harvesting, Butternut, Squash, Leeks, Parsnips, Turnips, Sprouts, Curly Kale, Savoy Cabbage, Celeriac and Winter Cabbage. The chefs are featuring all of this produce on our menus.

Game Season

The game season is now fully underway and the kitchen team are busy plucking! Partridge is featuring on our menu currently and Pheasant will follow.

Farming News

The maize has now been harvested for winter cattle feed and we have finished sowing for next years crops. We are still waiting for a clear T.B. test.

Taddlestones Ash Tree 

Sadly we have had to fell the big Ash Tree in the garden of our self catering holiday cottage – Taddlestones. It was getting very dangerous as it was loosing branches. Our tree surgeon has told me that it was hollow in the middle and would have become more and more dangerous as time went on. It has featured in many a wedding photograph and was a big feature of the garden.  We will of course be replacing it with another tree. For more details and how to book Taddlestones, please call us on 01258 830225 or email info@thelangtonarms.co.uk

Christmas Menu

Requests for our Christmas menu have been flooding in and our diary is beginning to fill up, so please do book quickly to avoid disappointment.

We are open as usual for lunch and dinner on New Years Eve.

Having won GOLD in 2005 & 2006 we wanted to look at the way we supported suppliers, growers & producers in the ‘West Country’ and decided we would try to go one step further and use only Dorset based companies. This in turn led us to grow our highly successful and somewhat controversial vegetable patch at The Langton Arms. We have had a good yield of produce throughout the summer and our winter vegetables are now starting to appear on the menus and in our vegetable medleys that we serve with most of our main courses