Sample Set Lunch

Served Daily Monday - Saturday 12:00 - 1.45

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 -£15.50

Blue Lion Platter:
Pork pie, black pudding sausage roll, blue wensleydale cheese, proscuitto, homemade chutneys, pickle and bread roll £14.50

Sandwiches

Chargrilled spiced chicken pepper and red onion tortilla wrap, lime sour cream - £12.50

Chargrilled minute steak and red onion marmalade on sourdough- £12.95

Grilled mature cheddar cheese and red onion ciabatta, sun blushed tomato chutney - £9.50

Beer battered fish finger ciabatta, tartare sauce - £12.25

All served with chips and salad

 

Sample Sunday Lunch

Served from 12pm-4.30pm

£26.75 Two Courses, £34.00 Three Courses

Honey roast parsnip soup

Smoked Yorkshire duck, celeriac 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

Twice baked Wensleydale cheese soufflé with a chive cream sauce £9.75

Oven baked queen scallops in garlic and herb butter, gruyere crust £13.50

Yorkshire fillet of beef carpaccio, shaved parmesan, pomegranate compote, beer bread croutons with truffle emulsion £14.95

Blue Wensleydale, cos and walnut salad with croutons and creamy grain mustard dressing £9.00

Pan seared foie gras, earl grey soaked golden sultanas, quince jelly, orange syrup £14.50

Main Courses

Homemade tagliatelle carbonara  £10.75/£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 £23.50

Grilled fillet of halibut with new potatoes, buttered spinach and hollandaise sauce £28.50

Chargrilled 30day dry aged Hereford sirloin of beef with bearnaise sauce, slow cooked garlic and thyme tomato, roast flat cap mushrooms and pomme frites £32.00

Pork tenderloin and wagyu black pudding wellington, carrot and maple purée, pork dripping chateau potatoes glazed baby carrots £28.00

Cassoulet of Yorkshire duck confit, Morteau sausage, roasted tomato and white beans, sourdough and sauerkraut £23.50

Braised short rib of Wagyu beef Borderlaise, truffle pommes dauphine, braised salsify £32.50

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

Extra Vegetables

Homemade chips          Braised red cabbage          Broccoli hollandaise          Roasted root vegetables

Buttered baby leaf spinach          House salad       all priced at 4.75

 

 Christmas Day Menu 2021

£85.00 per person

Roast pumpkin and maple velouté

Homemade whisky and orange cured salmon, yorkshire parkin toast 

Ham hock and foie gras terrine, confit of pear and pork puffs

Warm roast tomato and yellisons goats cheese tart with a basil emulsion

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Roast herb fed turkey crown, cranberry and orange stuffed leg, goose fat potatoes, 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, cockle and mussel chowder, samphire kombu crisp

Taleggio and sage stuffed arancini, provençal sauce, parmesan crisp, crispy kale

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Traditional Christmas pudding with brandy sauce

Yule spiced crème brûlée, mulled fruits

Rich chocolate pavé, toffee popcorn, clotted cream ice cream

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

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Filter coffee and petit fours