The Hardwick

Dinner Menu - August 2008

Fresh Bread with Netherend Farm Salted Butter and Terrabianca, Tuscan, Extra Virgin Olive Oil 95p

STARTERS

Pappa ala Pomodoro – Italian Style Tomato and Bread Soup made with San Marzano Plum Tomatoes from Naples £6.25

Provencal Style Fish Soup with Aioli, Gruyere Cheese and Croutons £6.25

Crispy Breadcrumbed Gloucester Old Spot Pork Belly & Black Pudding with Dandelion and Apple & Mustard Sauce £7.50

Fresh Buffalo Mozzarella, Roast Italian Plum Tomato & Ortiz Anchovy on Bruschetta with Rocket Pesto £7.50

Black Mountain Smokery Smoked Salmon and Wye Valley Second Spring Asparagus with a Poached Local Organic Egg and Hollandaise Sauce £9.95

Colston Basset Stilton Salad with Dandelion, Spinach, Watercress, Endive, Walnuts and Baked Croutons £6.75

Fresh Neals Yard Creamery Perroche Goats Cheese with Roast Beetroot, Rocket, Romaine & Capers £6.95

Scottish Girolle Mushrooms on Grilled Beer Bread with Garlic & Parsley Butter £8.95

Cornish River Fowey Mussels on Bruschetta with Marinier Sauce and Smoked Bacon £6.95

Confit Duck Hash with a Fried Organic Egg, Mustard Mayonnaise and Rocket & Dandelion £7.50

Grilled Chorizo Sausage, Cornish New Potato & Broad Bean Salad with Sherry Vinegar and Crème Fraiche £7.95

Middle White Pork Terrine with Raisins, Pistachios, Red Onion Jam, Cornichon & Grilled Beer Bread £6.75

Rocket, Crispy Pancetta and Parmesan Salad £6.95

Free-Range Chicken and Portabello Mushroom Rissole on Leek & Mustard Vinaigrette £6.00

MAINCOURSES

Grilled Ribeye of Herefordshire Beef with Slow Roast Italian Plum Tomato, Portabello Mushroom, Triple Cooked Chips & Béarnaise Sauce £18.95

Slow Cooked, Boned & Rolled Shoulder of Local Lamb with Pan Fried Potato Gnocchi, Spring Vegetables, Rocket and Braising Juices £16.95

Pan Fried Gower Peninsula Line Caught Sea Bass, Mashed Potato, Young Carrots & Braised Fennel with Brown Butter, Shallots, Capers, Lemon, Parsley and Meat Juices £18.75

Caesar Salad with Local Smoked Chicken (dressing made with salted anchovies. Salad garnished with marinated anchovy fillets) £12.75

Pan Fried Organic Salmon with Roast Beetroot, Sauté New Potatoes, Smoked Bacon and Horseradish Cream £16.95

Potato Gnocchi with Fresh Local Broad Beans, Peas, Artichokes, Braised Fennel, Rocket and Parmesan £13.50

Homemade Gloucestershire Pork, Onion and Sage Sausages with Polenta, Rocket Parmesan, Onion Rings & Lentil Gravy £12.95

Home Cooked Ham with Fried Organic Egg & Triple Cooked Chips or Bubble n’ Squeak £12.50

Double Cooked Shoulder of Rare Breed Middle White Pork with Creamy Haricot Beans, Spinach, Dandelion, Pancetta & Rocket Salad £17.50

Pasta Rotolo of Roast Butternut Squash, Spinach, Goats Cheese, Pine Nuts & Pumpkin Seeds with Mixed Leaves and Parmesan £13.25

Breadcrumbed Free-Range Chicken Breast Filled with Mozzarella and Serrano Ham & Sage. Served with Courgette Fries, Rocket and Amalfi Lemon £16.95

Roast Cod, Spanish Butter Beans, Black Pudding and Chorizo Sausage with Flat Parsley, Sherry Vinegar & Rocket £17.50

SIDE ORDERS

Triple Cooked Chips £3.75

Cornish New Potatoes £3.75

Mashed Potato £2.50

Rocket & Parmesan £3.95

Mixed Salad £3.00

PUDDINGS

Panetonne Crème Brulee £5.95

Amalfi Lemon Fool £5.50

Warm Triple Chocolate, Nut and Raisin Brownie with Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream £5.95

Vin Santo with Cantuccini Biscuits £5.75

Almond Panna Cotta with Cooked English Cherries £6.75

Sticky Toffee and Medjool Date Loaf with Toffee Sauce & Bower Farm Crème Fraiche £5.95 Recommended Dessert wine, Beerenauslese Austria 100ml glass £8.50

Bowl of Herefordshire Lower Hope Farm Cherries £5.00

Treacle Tart Ice Cream with Candied Pecans and Golden Syrup £6.00

Amedei Chocolate Mousse £7.00 Recommended Dessert wine, Banyuls 1998 100ml glass £6.50

Roast Fresh White Peach in Local Honey with Amaretto and Amaretti Ice Cream £7.75

Summer Fruit Pudding with Bower Farm Crème Fraiche £6.50

Neals Yard Creamery Organic Greek Style Yoghurt with Local Llanover Honey £5.95

Mr. Drummonds Strawberries & Raspberries with Vanilla Ice Cream or Bower Farm Jersey Double Cream or Vanilla Cheesecake Sauce and Shortbread Crumble £6.75

HOMEMADE ICE CREAMS & SORBETS all at £5.75

Local Honey (Made by Mr. Chirnside’s Busy Bees at Upper Llanover), Treacle Tart, Vanilla, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Malted Milk Chocolate, Amaretto & Amaretti Biscuit, Seville Orange Marmalade, Banoffee or Local Honey with Stem Ginger

Mango & Pineapple or Melon & Passion Fruit

CHEESE

Selection of British Cheeses with Quince Jelly & Biscuits £8.50

Perl Wen, Colston Basset Stilton, Greens of Glastonbury Cheddar,

Neals Yard Creamery Ragstone Goats Cheese, Berkswell,

Pennard Ridge Goats Milk Red, Celtic Promise, Smoked Gubbeen and Double Gloucester

Please note that some of our dishes contain nuts and are all produced in a nut environment

Please note, that while we try to keep the menus as seasonal and up to date as possible. We cannot guarantee to have every dish on the menu on the day you visit, but we'll do our best.