Veuve Clicquot Cruise: Sample menu
March 26th
Canapés
Roast free range chicken in a tiny Jersey Royal, bound with a chicken jus bread sauce and crisp Ayrshire bacon
Welsh rarebit soufflés in crisp tartlets, red onion marmalade and crispy sage
Scottish lobster salad with a poached quail’s egg and a salad of chives and mustard leaf with a citrus aïoli in a filo tartlet
Artichoke with Parma ham, sunblushed tomato and mascarpone on a crisp polenta croute
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First Course
Potted Morecambe bay shrimps, pickled cucumber salad, micro cress and brown bread croûtes or
Warm St Tola goat’s cheese salad with organic leaves, toasted hazelnuts and sherry vinaigrette
Main Course
Slow braised ox cheeks in a rich red wine jus, celeriac purée, savoy cabbage with chestnuts and morels and root vegetable crisps or
Savoy cabbage parcel with wild mushrooms and chestnuts, celeriac purée, pot roasted heritage vegetables, root vegetables crisps and red wine jus
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Pudding
“rhubarb’s” Tasting plate: Hibiscus and rhubarb jelly, Rhubarb brûlée, Rhubarb and stem ginger ice cream with vanilla bean shortbread
“rhubarb’s” homemade petits fours
Wines
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label
Sauvignon de Touraine, Domaine de Marce 2007
Devlins Mount Shiraz, S. Australia 2006