December Menus

Sample menus subject to change

While you wait

Halstead sourdough and rosemary butter £5

Salsify straws with aioli £6

Rarebit and pickled walnut flatbread £10

LAM salami fennel and medlar £12

To Start

Parsnip soup and chestnut soup with crème fraiche and dukkah £7.50

Beetroot carpaccio, sprouts and nasturtium caper £8

Chicken livers with apple butter and butter and parsley salad £10

Sonny's Smoked salmon, kohlrabi and horseradish £10

Followed By

Baked Crown prince gnocci, walnuts and Stilton £18

Winter chanterelle risotto and sage crumbs £20

Guineafowl, bacon and chestnut pie with tarragon greens £20

Chalk stream trout with celeriac cream and chervil £24

Pork Belly with dressed greens and cranberries £26

with

Roast pink fir £5

Clementine, bitter leaves and graceburn £5

Sunday Roasts of:

Crown prince with Cranberry stuffing and green sauce £23

Roast beef sirloin, Yorkshire pudding and horseradish £29

Both served with Pink fir, parsnip cauliflower cheese, red cabbage  

To Finish

Poached pear & chocolate mess £7

Christmas pudding and brandy custard £8

Clementine Cream brulee £8

Edmund Tew and medlar jelly £9

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Reserve a table

Parties of eight guests, or more, will be offered Water Lane’s Festive Menus, to be shared by the table.

£55 per head for parties of 8 and above*

On Arrival

Stilton straws and Crémant (or Botivo)

To start sharing plates of :

Bread, butter and garden pickles

Pevensey blue, pear and walnut salad

and

Venison carpaccio, sprouts and capers

and

Tempura sprouts, Christmas ketchup (VE)

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Grilled scallop, pepper dulce and lardo (additional course £12 supplement)

Followed by

Roast duck, carrots and brandied prunes

or

Beef Sirloin, horseradish and celeriac bake (£15 supplement)

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Chestnut and cep stuffed squash (VE)

Trimmings

Roast potatoes

Bread and parsnip sauce

Buttered greens

Braised red cabbage

Pudding

Water Lane christmas pudding

Or

Clementine creme brulee

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Local Cheese board (£8 supplement)

Tea, coffee and chocolate truffles (£5 supplement)

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*Supplements are offered on a per head basis with at least half of the party having to order said supplements.

Reserve a table