As well as giving the boozer a stunning new homely yet modern look, including a stained-glass back bar, wrought-iron staircase and mosaic floor, James Knappett of two-Michelin-star Kitchen Table is overseeing the food menu as Culinary Director, with Alex Harper (previously of The Harwood Arms and The Ledbury) as Executive Chef. The pair have worked together to create a modern pub menu that focuses on simply prepared, local produce with an underlying nostalgic theme throughout.
The menu includes the likes of crispy Cornish lamb ribs; garlic chicken kiev with shaved fennel salad, strawberry sherry trifle. And drinks-wise, the pub serves beers and cask and craft ales alongside an extensive wine list and modern cocktails, like on-tap Nitro Espresso Martinis and Blackcurrant Negronis.
Pub classics, seasonal British dishes and Sunday roasts.
Buttermilk fried chicken with blue cheese sauce & Bubbledogs hot sauce; the Cadogan cheese toastie with house pickles & Oxford sauce: herb fed chicken Kiev with mashed potato, garlic butter and shaved fennel salad and a Welsh Mangalista pork chop with crisp spiced jowl, crushed turnips and greengage.
Blackcurrant Negroni with gin, blackcurrant leaf, vermouth & Campari; Lemon Verbena Paloma with tequila, lemon verbena, pink salt &. grapefruit soda and the Bees Knees with gin, Cornish Manuka honey, lemon & cider.
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