Sandbanks menu

Been sent the Sandbanks restaurant (fancy new restaurant at the Pavilion) menu, so here you go. Sounds ambitious but is apparently great, review to follow.

STARTERS

Creamed Sweetcorn Soup with a Poached Hen Egg

Four Pounds Ninety Pence


Carpaccio of Beef with a Rocket, Parmesan and Truffle Salad, dressed with Hazelnut Oil

Five Pounds Ninety Pence

Smoked Salmon Bavarois wrapped in wilted Cos Lettuce, served with a Cucumber and Chilli Coulis

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


Fresh Mackerel and Fondant Potato Terrine with Lemon Balm Oil and Creme Fraiche Tartar Sauce

Five Pounds Ninety Pence

Quail three ways; Breast on Butternut Squash Puree, Confit Leg on Haricot Bean Stew and Fried Quail Egg on Beetroot Fondant

Six Pounds Ninety Pence


White Crab Meat, Corn and Crayfish Tian with Sauce Gazpacho

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


Pan Seared Scallops on Parsnip Puree served with lightly curried scented Mussels

Six Pounds Ninety Pence


Pan Fried Monkfish with Crisp Pork Belly, Pea Puree and a Shallot and Bacon foam

Six Pounds Ninety Pence

Roasted Turbot served on a Three Onion Risotto with Baby Vine Tomatoes and Bacon Foam

Sixteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Honey Roasted Duck Breast with Cinnamon Spiced Couscous, Pak Choi and a Roasted Red Pepper Coulis

Fifteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Onion and Golden Goats Cheese Tart Tatin with a Warm Salad of Rocket, Pine Nuts and Butternut Squash

Fourteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Trio of Beef; Fillet on Celeriac Confit, Braised Shin of Beef wrapped in Spinach and Calves Liver on Onion Mash

Seventeen Pounds Ninety Pence

Medley of Seafood with Herbed Crushed New Potatoes, Wilted Greens and a Fresh Tomato, Basil and Lemon Dressing

Fifteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Pan Fried Line Caught Sea Bass on Creamed Potato with Caramelised Baby Fennel, Fennel Puree and a Vanilla Jus

Fifteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Rack of Lamb on a Cassoulet of Summer Beans and Rosemary with Dauphinoise Potato, Herb Oil and Black Pudding

Sixteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Slow Roasted Tamworth Pork Belly with Creamed Celeriac, Savoy Cabbage, Confit Potato and Apple Puree

Fifteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Baked Cod Fillet on Wild Herb Linguine served with a Brown Shrimp and Tomato Butter

Fourteen Pounds Ninety Pence

Thai Green Curry with Prawns, Chicken or Vegetables served with Rice

Nine Pounds Fifty Pence


Homemade Hereford Steer Beef Burger with Tomato and Mozzarella served on Foccacia Bread with Chips

Nine Pounds Fifty Pence


A Creamy Fish Pie finished with a Mature Montgomery Cheddar Mash

Eleven Pounds Fifty Pence


Strips of Fillet Steak cooked in a creamy Peppercorn Sauce served with Dauphinoise Potato and Roasted Vine Tomatoes

Eleven Pounds Fifty Pence


Beer Battered Fillet of Local Cod served with Chunky Cut Chips and Pea Puree

Nine Pounds Ninety Pence


Mussels steamed with Garlic, White Wine, Cream, Julienne of Summer Vegetables and Home Cut Chipped Potatoes

Eleven Pounds Fifty Pence


Chicken Satay served with Egg Fried Rice

Seven Pounds Ninety Pence


Smoked Haddock Fishcakes served with a Poached Egg and a Chive Beurre Blanc

Eight Pounds Ninety Pence

Vanilla Cheesecake served with a Mango Foam

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


Banana Parfait with Caramelised Banana and Butterscotch Sauce

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


A Rich Chocolate Teardrop with a Cointreau Anglaise

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


Hazelnut Creme Brulee served with Vanilla Shortbread

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


"A Tasting of Blackberries" – Blackberries with Cream and Meringue, Blackberry Jelly and Blackberry Milkshake

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


Assiette of Desserts (for those who cannot choose from above, why not try a sample of them all!)

Six Pounds Ninety Pence


A Selection of Ice Creams

Five Pounds Ninety Pence


A Selection of British Cheeses with Damsel Wheat Wafers and Quince Jelly

Six Pounds Ninety Pence

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Canterbury, yesterday

Went to Canterbury yesterday, ate lunch, came home. That was about it really. Got some Thai food in The Hobgoblin. My jungle curry was pretty good, very hot too, but Clare didn't like her Pad Thai chicken.

Yeah, not the most interesting thing for you to read, but hopefully by writing it down we'll remember what not to order next time. Clare, remember to stick to the green curry, that was good.

Very quiet in there, for a Saturday afternoon. It's sad to see pubs underused, I guess that's more of a night time hang out, but it's a good pub at any time of day.

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I'm the walking dude (and so's my wife)

Splendid weekend, thanks for asking, starting off with what's becoming a regular routine; a quiet night in Friday night then a trip to Canterbury Saturday daytime. Had a lovely Wagamama, only slightly marred by me biting through my lip again. In the afternoon Clare went to have her hair done and I went to The Dolphin with Dean, we sat and shot the breeze in the garden there for a few hours.

Saturday night a Thai green curry round at Dom and Jen's, in honour of Dean's birthday, 21 again. We seem to have polished off a few unusual drinks (Whitstable Oyster Stout was a highlight for me), but a good time was definitely had by all

Sunday, we walked. Got our groceries out of the way in the morning, and walked along the beach and the canal path to Hythe and back, that's a round trip of at least eight miles, the most exercise I've done in a while. We did reward ourselves with a stop at The Carousel Lounge, a fairly new place in Hythe, that was nice enough. Bit lacking in character, but a good range of ales. As a reward for walking all the way back we stopped in The Ship in Sandgate on the way back, pretty much undoing all our good walking.

We did not see Dave the Dolpin from the beach at all, but plenty of ducks, a couple of kestrels of some sort, and I SWEAR I saw a kingfisher, and not just on the label of a bottle floating in the canal.

Lovely walk, and not at all suffering for it today, I could do it again RIGHT NOW if I wasn't quite so busy at work today.

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