Colchester oysters
21 €Half a dozen on ice, shallot vinegar and brown bread.
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Christmas Eve supper, Christmas Day luncheon and the Boxing Day table.
Christmas Eve
Supper by the fire from six o'clock.
Potted shrimp
14 €Morecambe Bay shrimp in mace butter, hot sourdough toast.
Roast parsnip soup
11 €Cumin and honey, finished with crème fraîche.
Vegetarian · Gluten-Free
Beef Wellington for two
86 €Fillet in mushroom duxelles and puff pastry, red wine jus.
Christmas Day
Luncheon from one o'clock, five courses and coffee. 95 per person, children under twelve 45.
Clear oxtail consommé
Madeira and root vegetables or Jerusalem artichoke velouté
Smoked Scottish salmon
Oak smoked in the house, soda bread and crème fraîche
Roast Norfolk bronze turkey
Chestnut stuffing and bread sauce or a mushroom and chestnut Wellington
Christmas pudding
Flamed with brandy, with rum butter or a chestnut and chocolate torte
Stilton and port
Colston Bassett Stilton, oatcakes and a glass of tawny
Coffee and mince pies
By the fire, with clementines and sugared almonds
Boxing Day
The cold table, from noon until five.
Glazed ham
18 €Baked with cloves and marmalade, with piccalilli.
Turkey and ham pie
16 €Hot water crust, served cold with pickled red cabbage.
Cold roast sirloin
19 €Served pink, with horseradish cream and watercress.
Bubble and squeak
12 €Sprouts and potato fried crisp, with a duck egg.
Vegetarian
Welsh rarebit
11 €Mature Cheddar, ale and mustard on toasted sourdough.
Puddings
Bûche de Noël
10 €Chocolate sponge rolled round chestnut cream.
Vegetarian
Sherry trifle
9 €Amontillado sponge, raspberries, custard and cream.
Vegetarian
Warm mince pies
7 €Three pies with brandy butter, dusted with sugar.
Clementine sorbet
8 €Corsican clementines with a splash of Cointreau.
Vegan · Gluten-Free
Winter Drinks
Warmed at the bar in the hall, by the glass or the jug.
Mulled wine
Red wine warmed with orange, clove and cinnamon.
Glass8 €
Jug30 €
Smoking Bishop
13 €Port and claret mulled with roasted Seville oranges.
Eggnog
11 €Brandy, dark rum, nutmeg and whole cream.
Hot buttered rum
12 €Dark rum, spiced butter and hot water.
Mulled cider
Somerset cider, apple brandy and allspice.
Glass7 €
Jug26 €
Hot chocolate
6 €Dark chocolate melted into whole milk, orange zest.
Vegetarian · Gluten-Free
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