Menu from 18th February  2012.....................

To Start

• Smoked Chicken and Asparagus Salad £4.95

Sliced smoked maize fed chicken, with fresh asparagus tips and quails' eggs, in a mixed seasonal leaf salad with vinaigrette dressing.

• Chicken Liver Pâté £4.75

A rich, smooth pâté of chicken livers, flavoured with garlic, cognac and spices and enhanced with truffle essence, served with a salad garnish.  

• Toasted Goat's Cheese £5.25

A French bread crouton topped with toasted Brittany goat's cheese and served on a salad with finely cut vegetable crudités and blue cheese dressing.

• Mussels and Pasta £5.55

A hot starter of fresh tagliatelle pasta and Connemara mussels out of shell, in a light cream and white wine sauce, flavoured with a hint of saffron.

• Garlic Mushroom Basket £5.25

Baby button mushrooms in a garlic, white wine and cream sauce, served in a crispy filo pastry basket with tomaro coulis.

• Game Terrine  £5.95

A fine cut terrine of venison, grouse and partridge, flavoured with fresh herbs, served with a cherry tomato salad garnish.

Main Courses

• Halibut Steak £18.75

A steak of halibut, panfried with toasted almonds and pine kernels, with an olive oil, lemon and chardonnay dressing, garnished with a fine julienne of sweet peppers.

• Fillet of Boar £16.95

Roast fillet of Lancashire boar, served with a cream sauce flavoured with Roquefort blue cheese, and apple sauce with a hint of rhubarb.

• Pigeon and Pheasant £16.15

Panfried breasts of new season pheasant, and local woodpigeon,  served with a Calvados and green peppercorn sauce.

• Fillet of Beef Two Sauces £21.75

A fillet steak of English beef, accompanied by two sauces : a Madeira cream sauce and a port wine sauce.

• Fillet of Venison £22.95

Medallions of venison fillet, panfried and served with a sauce flavoured with Port, cranberries and blueberries.

• Breast of Duck £17.50

Panfried breast of Gressingham duck, with a sauce flavoured with shallots, honey, Dijon mustard and a hint of piquant tarragon wine vinegar.

All main courses are served with selected fresh vegetables and potatoes

Desserts £6.50

All desserts, ice creams and sorbets are made here at Kitties

• Mont Blanc

A signature dessert ; a peak of Belgian white chocolate ice cream served with profiteroles filled with fresh cream and a warm, dark, rich chocolate sauce.

• Peach Melba

Peach halves, lightly poached and served in a brandy snap basket with vanilla ice cream and raspberry coulis.

• Black Cherry Crème Brûlée

A classic individual chilled dessert, with juicy black cherries, glazed under the grill with brown sugar.

• Raspberry and Amaretto Parfait Glace

An ice cream terrine made with raspberries and fresh cream, flavoured with Italian Amaretto liqueur, served with a sprinkling of toasted almonds.

• Totally Chocolate!

A decadent doubley chocolatey dessert of dark Belgian chocolate and smooth white chocolate terrine, served with a Tia Maria and chocolate sauce.

• Banana and Caramel Cheesecake

An individual creamy cheesecake on a biscuit base, topped with banana, golden sultanas and chocolate flakes, served in a caramel sauce.