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Nibbles STARTERS SIDES MAINS KIDS DINNER 6pm – 9pm Indoor Dining - Please wait to be shown to your table. Outdoor dining - Please find a table and wait for a member of staff. We are operating full table service throughout. Please ask your waiter about any dietary requirements. All food is cooked fresh to order and at busy times there will be a wait. Nibbles MAINS 10oz Salt-Aged Sirloin Steak ........................................... £29.95 Basket of Bread.............................................. £4.50 Onion rings, oven roasted tomato, mushroom,hand cut chips & rocket £12.95 Baked Camembert for Two........................... With Pink Peppercorn Sauce With handmade bread and apricot puree Spiced Lamb Meatballs...................................................... £14.50 Minted & cumin meatballs in a barley broth with fresh peas & broad beans, spinach & STARTERS spring onions, finished with creme fraiche Tex Mex Chicken Salad (GF/DF)..................................... £12.95 Today’s Soup ........................................................ £5.75 Chicken breast marinated in chilli, lime & coriander. Baby Warm roll gem, guacamole, olives, pimento peppers, hot pickled chillis Chicken & Black Pudding Terrine........................ £8.50 Fish and Chips ..................................................................... £17.25 Toasted rye bread, pistachio pesto Beer battered Fleetwood haddock with hand Heratage Tomato Salad (G/F)........................... £7.95 cut chips, mushy peas and chunky tartar sauce Marinated bocconcini, basil pesto Vegan Buddha Bowl' (GF/DF)......................................... £11.95 Sloe Gin Gravadlax.................................................. £8.95 Sweet potatoes, onions, kale, crispy chickpeas & Toasted rye bread, clementine & maple sauce herb salad Tweedies Beef Burger ......................................................... £14.95 Seafood Sharing Platter (for 2)......................... £24.95 8oz prime beef burger on toasted ciabatta bun, burger Rollmops, hot smoked salmon, tempura mayo, tomato, gherkin & baby gem, with French fries & haddock goujons,grilled chilli & lime king tomato salsa. prawns, aioli, tartare sauce, fennel & dill Add - Blue Cheese - £2.00 /Mild Red Leicester - £2.00/ salad, toasted sourdough Bacon - £1.00 £13.95 Haloumi & Field Mushroom 'Burger'.................................. On a Lovingly Artisan bun with French fries & tomato salsa SIDES Barnsley Chop........................................................................ £18.50 Creamy mash, fricassee of sugar snap peas, heritage Hand Cut Chips (GF) (GF) £5.00 carrots & spinach, mint jus French Fries (GF) £4.50 Pearl Barley Risotto............................................................. £13.50 Mushrooms, spinach, shallots, wild garlic, thyme Sugar Snap Peas & Baby Carrots (GF) £4.50 KIDS UNDER 12 Fish & Chips £8.50 Chicken Goujons, Fries & Beans £7.50 Macaroni Cheese, Tomato sauce (V) £6.95 CHEESE AND DESSERTS Please ask staff about any dietary requirements. All food is cooked fresh to order and at busy times there will be a wait. DESSERTS CHEESE SELECTION All £8.50 £9.00 Chocolate Brownie Blacksticks Blue Mint choc-chip ice cream Farmhouse soft blue cheese made from pasturised milk of the Butlers family herd of pedigree cows. Aged for Eton Mess eight weeks, developing an amber hues and a smooth yet Apple Crumble tangy taste. Homemade custard Creamy Lancashire A fluffy, open textured cheese with a rich creamy flavour Sticky Toffee Pudding and smooth buttery finish. Butterscotch sauce, toffee crunch ice cream Eden Valley Brie White mould ripened Brie made with pasturised Ayrshire cow's milk. Its flavour fills the mouth with intensity and the luxurious creamy texture rounds off a sumptuous taste experience. Suitable for vegetarians. All served with Peter Yard’s original cheese biscuits, Hawkshead damson chutney, Sourdough, grapes, apple WALLINGS ICE CREAM and celery Wallings Ice Cream (3 SCOOPS) £5.95 PORT Vanilla Ramos Pintos LBV (50ml) £4.00 Triple Chocolate (50ml) £4.50 Bonfire Toffee Ramos Pintos 10yr Tawny Pistachio Wallings Sorbet (3 SCOOPS) £5.95 Strawberry Gin & Elderflower COFFEE Melon Peach Beans roasted locally by Redbank Coffee Roasters Rhubarb £3.00 Children’s Ice Cream (2 SCOOPS) £3.95 Flat White Cappuccino £3.00 Wallings ice cream is made using milk, from our herd of Long Black £2.90 cows in the fields across the road, giving it providence. Espresso £2.00 Today we still take the milk form the cows across the Americano £3.00 road, or as we like to say real ice cream, needs real £3.50 Mocha cows. But the fun never ends. The quest for the £3.25 ultimate flavour continues, each one requiring rigorous Latte £2.80 sampling, to ensure total satisfaction “it’s a tough life!” Macchiato .
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