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DECEMBER FESTIVE DINNER MENU Spiced Foie Gras Toasted Brioche, Sauternes Jelly, Hazelnut Crumb & Homemade Chutney Christmas DECEMBER FESTIVE DINNER MENU £35.00 for 2 courses & £40.00 for 3 courses 6:00pm – 9:00pm We take pride in using the best local & seasonal produce available. All Scottish produce is highlighted in bold. Starters Mains Soup of the Day Christmas Pie with MacLean’s Highland Bakery bread spiced butternut squash, cranberries, baby spinach & toasted pumpkin seeds. wrapped in Spiced Foie Gras puff pastry served with a blue cheese sauce. toasted brioche, sauternes jelly, hazelnut crumb & homemade chutney Confit Leg Of Barbary Duck Butterbean and pancetta cassoulet with wilted Warm Goat’s Cheese spinach candied beetroot and rocket salad & raspberry and rapeseed Summer Harvest Dressing Grants of Speyside 8oz Rib Eye Steak confit flat cap mushroom, roasted vine tomatoes, Prawn Cocktail Tracklements red onion marmalade & chips North Atlantic prawns, whisky Marie rose, cos 12oz - £8.00 supplement lettuce, caper berries and confit cherry tomatoes Ballantine of Turkey breast Grants of Speyside Haggis Bon Bon’s wrapped in Serrano Parma Ham, sweet chilli mayonnaise pork & apricot stuffing Served with all the trimmings; Inverawe Roast Smoked Salmon pigs in blankets, thyme roasted potatoes, Brussel cucumber, shallots, caper berries, horseradish cream & sprouts, cranberry compote & red wine jus. Perthshire handmade oatcakes Wester Ross Fillet of Salmon Isle of Skye Hand Dived Scallops Brussel sprout petals, maple syrup dressing, fricassee cauliflower puree, crispy pancetta, quails egg, confit of pancetta & cranberries vine tomato, Grants of Speyside black pudding Sides & Sauces Green Leaf Salad £2.95 Skinny Fries £2.95 Sweet Potato Fries £2.95 Parsley New Potatoes £2.95 Seasonal Mixed Vegetables £2.95 Green Peppercorn Sauce £2.50 Speyside Whisky Sauce £2.50 Blue Murder Cheese Sauce £2.50 Within our kitchen we use nuts, fish, eggs, shellfish, milk & gluten products. It is impossible to fully guarantee separation of those items in storage, preparation or cooling, although every effort is made to minimise the risk. Any bread or breaded products may contain nuts, sesame seeds or poppy seeds, as a result of cross contamination during the baking process We take pride in using the best local & seasonal produce available. All Scottish produce is highlighted in bold. Desserts Hot Drinks A selection of Black Isle Dairy Ice-Cream; English breakfast tea £2.40 Ferro Rocher, strawberry & Vanilla Peppermint £2.70 served with meringues and fresh berries Earl grey £2.70 3 scoops Chamomile £2.70 Green tea £2.70 Crème Brulee Superfruit £2.70 homemade shortbread & Black Isle Dairy vanilla ice cream Cappuccino £2.75 Latte £2.85 Warm Christmas Pudding Bon Bon’s Americano £2.55 Athol Brose crème Anglaise, Black Isle Dairy Espresso £2.40 vanilla ice-cream Mocha £2.95 Hot chocolate £2.95 Affogato shot of Glen Lyon Coffee, Black Isle Dairy Please See our Festive Hot Drinks or vanilla ice-cream & Amaretto liqueur Festive Cocktail Menu Warm Festive Chocolate Fondant Liqueur Coffee Chocolate soil, hazelnut praline and Black Isle Dairy coffee bean ice-cream Hot Toddy £6.95 served with Bourbon Scottish Cheeses from the region - Connage Dairy Clava Brie Calypso £6.95 - Connage Dairy Dunlop served with Tia Maria - Blarliath Farm Blue Murder Mrs. Darlington’s apple and tomato chutney, Baileys £6.95 Maclean’s Hebridean oatcakes fine biscuits, served with Baileys Irish Cream oatcakes, grapes & celery Highland £6.95 served with Angels Nectar whisky Enjoy your Scottish Cheeses with a glass of 2009 Dows Late Bottled Vintage Port Gaelic £6.95 £5.50 or a dram of 10yr Muckrach served with Drambuie Whisky £4.40 Within our kitchen we use nuts, fish, eggs, shellfish, milk & gluten products. It is impossible to fully guarantee separation of those items in storage, preparation or cooling, although every effort is made to minimise the risk. Any bread or breaded products may contain nuts, sesame seeds or poppy seeds, as a result of cross contamination during the baking process .
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