LIGHT LUNCH MENU FROM £5 AVAILABLE EVERYDAY FROM 12PM

Sample
a la carte 

Starters

Velouté of white onions with forest mushrooms and thyme foam £5.50

Spiced crab and sweet pork salad with soy, chilli and avocado £6.50

Smoked mackerel pate with chilli chutney and toast £5.50

 Potted foie gras and black leg chicken parfait, slow poached apricot chutney £7 

Sardines on toast with provencal tomatoes and house butter £5.50

Runny black pudding and smoked haddock scotch egg £6

Smoked Suffolk ham, walnut and apple salad with blue cheese dressing £5.50

Mains

Blythburgh pork. Confit of belly and crispy cheek fritter with truffled shallot puree and Aspall cyder £13.50

The Arboretum’s fish pie £12.50

Ketleys farm rump steak with ‘Arb’ house butter, marinated organic mushrooms and slow roasted tomatoes £14.50

Confit of Sutton Hoo chicken with chorizo and lentil cassoulet £12.50

Whole grilled lemon sole with capers, shallots and parsley £11

Plum tomato and red onion tart tatin, Camenbert hash brown and pepper rocket pesto £10.50 

For
2 to share

Asiette of Suffolk lamb hogget. Pot roast rump, pressed confit of breast and herb crusted best end.Truffled garlic mash and rosemary juices £32

Puddings

Crème brulée £5

Melting chocolate orange fondant with crème fraîché ice cream £6

Toffee pecan cheesecake £5.50

Strawberry and
raspberry salad with Pimms syrup and summer berry smoothie £6

Homemade cherry
jam and peanut butter toastie, peanut butter ice cream £5.50  

British and French cheese with biscuits and chutney £6.50

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Christmas at the Arboretum

Starters 

Creamy White Onion Soup, forest mushrooms, thyme foam and porcini dust  

Colchester Mussels, Aspall’s cyder, bacon and cream 

Homemade Chicken Liver Parfait, slow poached apricot chutney 

Warm Salad of Slow Roasted Tomatoes, goat’s cheese beignet compote of red onions and peppered rocket pesto   

Mains 

Suffolk Free Range Turkey

Roast breast and slow braised leg with sage stuffing, goose fat roasties and cranberry confit 

Blythburgh Pork.

Pressed confit of belly with Crispy cheek fritter, truffled shallot puree, crackling and sage juices  

Loch Durat Salmon Wellington.

Tarragon butter sauce, baby potatoes and soft herb mousse.  

Hot Pot of Marinated and Wild Mushrooms.

White bean, spinach and barbers cheddar gratin  
 

Puddings 

Glazed Lemon Tart, black current sorbet 

Crème Brûleé 

Sticky Toffee and Ginger Pudding, vanilla ice cream 

Homemade Christmas Pudding, brandy butter parfait 
 

Two course £18.50   Three course £23.50 per person 

Additional cheese course £4 per person

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New Years Eve at the Arboretum.

raspberry champange cocktails on arrival

Starters 

Veloute of brancaster mussels and leeks, parsley and aspalls cyder

Celeriac panna cotta, sweet sesame mouli, wild mushrooms, banyulls vinaigrette  ?

'Presse' of sutton hoo chicken and smoked panchetta, slow poached apricot chutney, parfait of chicken livers

Three cured salmons. pickled with dill, arboretum hot smoked and soft mousse. homemade pumpernickle bread and soured cream

Mains

Pot roast loin of suffolk venison (served pink), roasted garlic and thyme gratin, chestnut puree

Bouillabaise. red gurnard, langoustine, salmon and wild bass. conte and roullie

Blythburgh pork, confit of belly, crispy cheek and crackling. sweet braised onions and sage

Mature cheddar, potato and wild mushroom pithiver, creamed mustard leeks and parsley sauce

Puddings 

Peanut butter and jam toastie, with homemade cherry jam, brioche and vanilla ice cream

Three chocolate puddings

Poached pear in perry with bramble cream and sable biscuits

British and french cheeses with celery, homemade chutney and biscuits