THE CLAREMONT HEAD CHEF

Ian Robson

I have been head chef at the Claremont Hotel for nearly 4 years now. I have worked for the company for 20 years before this. I still enjoy coming to work and the new challenges of the working day. We try to use as much fresh produce everyday as we can the style off food is good quality home style cooking. Read More »

Sample Menus Christmas Dinner

Starters

Scoops of melon and strawberries come alive with sparkling wine (v)

Finest prawns topped with Marie Rose sauce on a bed of leaves with diced tomatoes, peppers with lemon slice

Chef’s homemade chicken liver pâté served with Cumberland sauce and garlic bread slice on continental leaves

Pan fried mushrooms with a cream and Stilton sauce (v)

Cream of vegetable soup finished with cream and chopped parsley served with fresh rolls (v)

Traditional Scottish game and barley soup served with herb croutons and fresh rolls

Various fruit juices (v)

Intermediate

Champagne sorbet

Paupiette of plaice filled with crab meat served with cream and white wine sauce

Main Courses

Traditional roast turkey served with sage and onion stuffing, chipolata sausage, cranberry sauce and meat gravy

Roast sirloin of beef served with horseradish sauce, Yorkshire pudding and meat gravy

Poached fillet of salmon scented with dill and served with a cream and prawn sauce

Goat’s cheese and red onion tart served with tomato coulis on various leaves (v)

Mushroom Stroganoff in a cream and tarragon sauce served with Pilau rice and garlic bread (v)

Buttered button sprouts and lemon glazed baton carrots

New boiled and rosemary scented roast potatoes

Alternatively please help yourself to our assorted cold buffet

Sweets

Christmas pudding served with a rich cream and brandy sauce

Festive fruit trifle with fresh strawberries and toasted flake almonds

Chocolate fudge Yule log served with vanilla ice cream

Peach slices with fresh cream, vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce

Toffee ripple, mint choc chip, strawberry, chocolate or vanilla ice creams

Stilton and Lancashire cheese and biscuits

Freshly percolated coffee, mince pies and Ferrero Rocher

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