Sample Set Lunch

Served Daily Monday - Saturday 12:00 - 2:15

Two Courses £26.00, Three Courses £33.00

Homemade soup of the day

Blue wensleydale, cos and walnut salad, croutons and creamy blue cheese dressing

Twice baked Wensleydale cheese soufflé, with chive cream sauce

Oven baked queen scallops in garlic and herb butter, gruyere cheese crust

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Confit yorkshire pork belly, wagyu boudin, roast carrot and maple puree, pork dripping potatoes, baby carrots and cider reduction

Cassoulet of yorkshire duck confit, morteau sausage, roast tomato and white beans, sourdough and sauerkraut

Whole baked plaice, baper beurr noisette, fennel and orange salad, lemon and chive potato salad

Potato and thyme rosti with mushroom, garlic and leek fricassee served with dressed salad - V

All of the above main courses are complete dishes; extra vegetables are available on request

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Sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream ice cream, butterscotch sauce

Rich creme brulee with traditional shortbread and seasonal berry compote

Ginger and lemongrass carpaccio of pineapple, mascarpone sorbet

Blue and White Wensleydale cheese board

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After lunch coffees and teas - from £3.25

served with homemade petit fours

Sample Lunch

 30 day dry-aged Hereford flat iron sirloin steak (4oz), dressed leaves, hand cut chips and Café de Paris butter - £15.50

Black Sheep battered cod and chips,  crushed peas and tartare sauce - £16.50

Blue Lion Tartiflette:
Creamed new potatoes, bacon and shallots topped with baked raclette cheese, dill pickle and dressed leaves -£13.50

Homemade pork pie with piccalilli and dressed salad - £8.95

Blue Lion Platter:
Pork pie, black pudding sausage roll, blue wensleydale cheese, proscuitto, homemade chutneys, pickle and bread roll £12.50

Sandwiches

Chargrilled chicken and bacon with whole grain mustard mayonnaise served in grilled sourdough - £10.25

Chargrilled minute steak and red onion marmalade on sourdough- £12.50

Grilled mature cheddar cheese with tomato chutney in ciabatta- £9.25

Smoked salmon and cream cheese ciabatta - £12.25

All served with chips and salad

 

Sample Sunday Lunch

Served from 12pm-6pm

£26.75 Two Courses, £34.00 Three Courses

Honey roast parsnip soup

Smoked Yorkshire duck, celeiac remoulade, liquorice and blackberry compote

Salmon roulade, lemon gel, black garlic dressing

Grilled Morteau sausage and new potato salad, poached hens egg

Beetroot beignets, apple and walnut salad

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Roast 28 day matured sirloin of Yorkshire beef with Yorkshire pudding

Hand carved honey roast gammon with wholegrain mustard sauce

Rolled shoulder of lamb, honey roast parsnips, colcannon potatoes

Tagliatelle fruits de mer (cockles, mussels and squid)  

Spinach, goats cheese and pea risotto, walnut crumb  

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64% dark chocolate mousse, fresh raspberries, chantilly cream, caramel almonds

Warm apple pie, vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce

Fresh lemon tart, raspberry purée, kiwi sorbet

Sorbet selection: chocolate, apple and strawberry

3 cheese selection: Blue Wensleydale, White Wensleydale, Montgomery Cheddar

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After lunch coffees and teas - from £3.25

served with homemade petit fours

Sample Puddings

Iced liquorie terrine, candied hazelnuts, rich dolcezza di latte £9.50

Rich creme brulee with traditional shortbread and seasonal berry compote £8.95

Soft pistachio gelato, confit of black cherries, baked italian meringue, warm aerated pistachio cake £9.50

Warm pecan pie, caramel sauce and sticky toffee ice cream £9.25

Sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream ice cream, butterscotch sauce £8.50

Green apple soufflé, salted caramel ice cream £9.50

Clotted cream panna cotta, fresh Yorkshire strawberries, strawberry soup £9.50

Ginger and lemongras carpaccio of pineapple, mascarpone sorbet £8.25

A selection of handmade ice cream £7.50

Savoury - Grilled raclette cheese on toasted ciabatta, dill pickle £9.75

 

Dessert Wines

 
 

	70 ml glass	Bottle
Bin 83 Moscatel-Bodegas Sarria, Navarra, Spain Soft and succulent with enough acidity to keep the apricot and mandarin flavours	£6.95	50cl £35.00
Bin 84 Monbazillac Domaine De L’Ancienne Cure, Bergerac, France A very similar style to Sauternes, just with a bit more weight and body	£5.50	37.5cl £27.50
Bin 86 Sweet Carolyn, Vonderling, Voor Paardeberg, South Africa A light fruity style, delicious on it own or with fruit desserts		50cl £45.00

 

Sample Starters

Homemade soup of the day £7.50

Charred north sea mackerel ballotine, pickled radish, gooseberry, black garlic aioli, watercress, mini potato salad £11.25

Twice baked Wensleydale cheese soufflé with a chive cream sauce £9.50

Oven baked queen scallops in garlic and herb butter, gruyere crust £12.50

Hazelnut brioche crusted wood pigeon breast, pancetta, pea and broad bean fricassee £10.25

Yorkshire fillet of beef carpaccio, shaved parmesan, pomegranate compote, beer bread croutons with truffle emulsion £14.50

Blue Wensleydale, cos and walnut salad with croutons and creamy grain mustard dressing £8.75

Pan seared foie gras, earl grey soaked golden sultanas, quince jelly, orange syrup £12.50

Slow braised shoulder of wild boar ragu, homemade pappardelle, mascarpone, fresh herbs £15.00

Main Courses

Homemade tagliatelle carbonara  £10.25/£18.00

Potato and thyme rosti with mushroom, garlic and leek fricassee, served with dressed salad – V £17.50

Poached fillet of smoked haddock on a bed of new potatoes, mushroom and leek cream, soft poached egg and glazed with gruyere £22.50

Grilled fillet of halibut with new potatoes, buttered spinach and hollandaise sauce £27.50

North east coast lemon sole veronique, fennel and orange salad, baked charlotte potatoes £28.50

Chargrilled 30day dry aged Hereford sirloin of beef with bearnaise sauce, slow cooked garlic and thyme tomato, roast flat cap mushrooms and pomm frites £29.50

Pan roasted chicken supreme, charred grelot onions, cep veloute wild mushroom & truffle cannelloni £25.00

Pork tenderloin and wagyu black pudding wellington, carrot and maple purée, pork dripping chateau potatoes glazed baby carrots £26.50

Cassoulet of Yorkshire duck confit, Morteau sausage, roasted tomato and white beans, sourdough and sauerkraut £22.95

Braised short rib of Wagyu beef Borderlaise, truffle pommes dauphine, braised salsify £29.95

Sirloin of yorkshire dales lamb, crispy belly croquette, yellison's goat curd, piccolo tomato confit in aged balsamic and rosemary, black olive tapenade £29.50

 

Sample Christmas Day Menu

£79.00 per person

Winter vegetable broth, roast walnut cracker

Whisky cured salmon, kumquat chutney, yorkshire parkin crisp, tarragon creme fraiche 

Duck liver parfait, armagnac soaked prunes, toasted brioche

Grilled goats cheese and beetroot tartlet, golden beetroot and chicory salad

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Roast bronze turkey crown, orange and cranberry and orange stuffed leg, pigs in blankets and rich turkey gravy

Roast sirloin of yorkshire dry age beef with yorkshire pudding, rich beef and claret gravy

Pan fried halibut supreme, brown shrimp and caper beurre noisette, pork rillettes bonbon, roast celeriac purée

Caramelised carrot and sweet potato wellington, thyme potato fondant, roasted vegetable gravy

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Traditional Christmas pudding with brandy sauce

Rich chocolate yule log, orange and cardamom ice cream

Mango and coconut cheesecake, dark rum chantilly cream, mango compote

A selection of yorkshire cheeses, homemade spiced apple chutney, artisan crackers

 

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