Sample Restaurant Menus
Enjoy choosing from this range of dishes, carefully prepared for you by a dedicated team using only the freshest ingredients and where possible locally sourced produce from the local areas of Cumbria- The Lake District and Yorkshire Dales. If your room-rate includes dinner, a three-course meal of starter, main-course and pudding or cheese, plus tea or coffee, is yours to select.
Dishes marked (v) have been chosen as being suitable for those on a vegetarian diet. Other diets can be catered for on request.
Many items on the Oak Room Restaurant menu change daily. The starters and main courses in bold are examples of such dishes.
All prices include value-added-tax at 20%. There is no service charge.
There is a minimum charge of £12.95.
Please note you are invited to refrain from smoking in the restaurant.
Highlighted menu items change daily.
Your Choice of Starters
Double-Baked Crab Souffle £ 9.25
Light souffle sitting on a shrimp peppercorn chowder.
Mosaic Westmorland Game Terrine £ 9.95
Pressed selection of local seasonal game, with port wine jelly and house salad.
Field Mushroom Assiette (v) £ 8.75
Mushroom cappuccino, mushroom & goat's cheese tart and deep-fried breaded garlic mushrooms with aioli.
Appleby Manor Bresaola £ 8.95
Our own cured salt beef with sweet pickled golden beetroot, orange salad and parmesan crisp.
Sweetcorn and Lemon Broth (v) £5.95
Light broth flavoured with citrus fruits and garnished with sweetcorn,
rice and crispy croutons
Assiette of Baby Beetroot (v) £8.25
Roast beetroot and goats' cheese tart, beetroot comsomme
with lemon foam and beetroot & orange jelly.
Grilled Fillet of Line-Caught Mackerel £ 8.75
Fresh mackerel on piccalilli salad, frisse lettuce and sweet chilli dressing.
Your Choice of Main Courses
All main courses are accompanied with their own potatoes and vegetables. However if you would like an extra portion of vegetables please ask when ordering.
(£2.95 per person)
Today's Speciality Bread
Brioche, Irish Soda, Honey and Mustard
To accompany today's Supreme of Halibut, your Head Chef, Chris Thompson recommends you try a white wine such as Aligote Bouzeron (bin no. 34, 15.40 per bottle).
Oven-Roasted Lupton Red Partridge 17.95
Served with braised vegetables and lentils, potato and parsnip rosti, chicken boudin, caramelised onions and game jus.
Supreme of Arctic Halibut 16.25
Pan-fried halibut with lobster ravioli, etuvee of mixed peppers, and crispy rocket tempura, finished with a saffron beurre blanc.
Confit of Cumbrian Belly Pork 18.25
Slowly cooked belly pork with a cabbage, apple and black pudding timbale, butternut squash puree, champ potatoes and a home-made faggot.
Cumbrian Beef 3 Ways £ 19.75
Pot-roasted brisket, veal faggot, and local calf's liver with pan-fried potato cake,
braised cabbage, mini horseradish Yorkshire pudding, glazed baby onions and beef jus.
Baked Fillet of Atlantic Plaice £ 18.25
Accompanied with salmon cannelloni, wilted baby spinach, cherry vine tomatoes
and a noilly prat cream sauce.
Breast of Lupton Pheasant £ 18.75
Rolled with a wild mushroom mousse wrapped in streaky bacon with Cumberland pheasant pie,
garden pea puree and buttered carrots, finished with cranberry jus.
Supreme of Native Halibut £ 19.95
Grilled halibut with braised puy lentils, prawn croquette, rocket leaves and a lemon & dill hollandaise.
Highlighted menu items change daily.
Your Choice of Puddings, Cheese & Savoury
Selection of Desserts (a range of freshly-prepared delicious sweets) £7.25
The Cheese Trolley (a daily-changing selection of superb local and farmhouse cheeses) £8.95
Sticky Toffee Pudding (as rich as you'd expect, served hot with cream or ice-cream) £7.25
Dairy Ice-Cream (a variety of flavours served on meringue discs and fruit coulis) £5.25 Selection of Refreshing Sorbets (a variety of flavours to clean the palate) £5.25
Your Choice of Coffee & Tea
Natural or Decaffeinated Coffee (with hot or cold milk, or cream, and petit fours) £3.50
Freshly-Brewed Tea (English Breakfast, Earl Grey or Herbal, with petit fours) £3.50
The Lounge Menu is served daily from 10am until 7pm and includes a selection of hot beverages, freshly made soup, crisp salads, sandwiches, afternoon tea and sweets.



