A la Carte Menu
Brown's Hotel's Executive Chef, Lee Streeton, greatly believes in using only the finest seasonal ingredients and with this in mind this menu is continuously updated. Please find the following sample menu:
OYSTERS
6West Mersea natives £19.75
6 Maldon rocks £14.25
SOUPS
Leek & Charlotte potato soup £6.75
London particular £7.25
STARTERS
Potted Morecambe Bay shrimps £12.75
Treacle-cured salmon with pickled fennel and cucumber £12.75
Dorset dressed crab with bittercress £16.50
Steamed seakale with brown shrimps and lemon butter £15.75
Devilled lamb’s kidneys on toasted country bread £7.50
Chicory & Cox’s apple salad with celery and Blue Monday £8.25
Pan-fried chicken livers with roasted cauliflower and Orkney bacon £8.25
Romney Marsh beets withTymsboro’ goat’s cheese and wild herbs £8.75
EGGS
Pan-fried Burford Brown egg with baby squid and black pudding £8.75
Smoked haddock tart with sea vegetables and quail’s eggs £8.75
London smoked salmon with scrambled eggs £13.50
FISH
Steamed wild sea bass with wilted alexanders £24.75
Fried haddock in beer batter with chips and mushy peas £14.50
Roasted fillet of cod with braised savoy cabbage, wild boar bacon and Innis & Gunn £18.50
Herb-baked scallops with garlic butter £24.50
Dover sole, 350g, grilled or pan-fried £32.50
Chargrilled squid with butternut squash relish £14.75
The Albemarle set menu is offered for lunch, pre theatre and dinner
2 courses £25.00 3 courses £30.00
Opening times:
Lunch 12 noon till 3pm Monday to Saturday and 12.30pm till 4pm on Sunday
Pre-theatre 5.30pm till 7.30pm Monday to Saturday
Dinner 7pm till 11pm Monday to Saturday and 7pm till 10.30pm on Sunday
Prices are inclusive of VAT. Service charge is at your discretion.
GAME
VenisonWellington with braised red cabbage£24.75
Wild rabbit braised in cider with capers £15.75
FROM THE GRILL
Olde English sausage with mashed potato and onion gravy £14.75
Devon Red free-range chicken salad with woodland mushrooms £17.50
Suffolk middlewhite pork chop with bubble & squeak and hedgerow garlic £15.25
Butcher’s steak salad with crispy shallots & watercress £15.75
Aberdeenshire 28-day aged beef:
Fillet on the bone 300g £32.75
Sirloin on the bone 400g £24.75
Porterhouse steak for two persons 1kg £64.00
PIES, HOT-POTS AND BRAISES
Lancashire hot-pot £17.50
Steak & kidney pudding £15.75
Braised shin of beef with Guinness and buttered heritage carrots £21.25
Brown’s fish pie £14.50
VEGETABLES
Steamed or creamed spinach £4.75
Steamed sprouting broccoli £4.75
Fried onion rings in Scrumpy batter £3.75
Buttered pink fir apple potatoes £4.25
Buttery mash £3.75
Chips £4.00
Mixed or green salad £4.25
Buttered heritage carrots with chervil £4.25
LUNCH TROLLEY
Monday Roast Rhug Estate organic chicken with sage & onion stuffing £19.75
Tuesday Honey-glazed leg of ham £18.75
Wednesday Herb-roasted Aberdeenshire sirloin £25.75
Thursday Roast middlewhite pork £18.50
Friday Hay-baked leg of Corwen lamb £19.75
Saturday Roast Aylesbury free-range duck £19.50
Sunday Roast rib of Hereford beef withYorkshire pudding £24.50
Game may contain shot
Executive Chef Lee Streeton
SAVOURIES
Welsh rabbit £6.50
Devils on horseback £6.50
Angels on horseback £6.50
Scotch woodcock £6.50
DESSERTS
Cox’s apple crumble with JulianTemperley’s cider brandy (for two) £13.50
Steamed treacle sponge pudding £6.50
Buttermilk pudding withYorkshire rhubarb £6.50
Poached pear with East London honey jelly £6.50
Brown’s ginger parkin £6.50
Spotted dick £6.25
Chocolate pudding with marmalade ice cream £6.75
CHEESE
Midshires farmhouse cheese board: Finn, Oxford Blue, Berkswell £10.50
DES SERT WINE
by the glass (75ml)
Rhone Valley, Muscat Beaume de Venise 2006, Domaine des Girardins £5.50
Château Petit Vedrines 2002 £8.50
Muscadel ‘1908 Reserve Old Vines’, Rietvallei Estate 2003 £12.00
PORT
by the glass (75 ml)
Taylor’s late bottled vintage 2002 £6.50
Taylor’sTawny 10 years £8.50
Taylor’sTawny 20 years £10.50
Ramos PintoTawny 20 years £10.50
Croft 1977 £18.00
Coffee and tea £4.90