So, If you're not interested, don't read! Today's menu:

[merciasounds]

Starters: Fresh asparagus with hollandaise sauce
OR
light vegetable soup with choice of roll
OR
melon cocktail with mint

Mains: Gammon Steak with either fresh pineapple or egg, handcut chips, or new pots peas/side salad
OR
Chicken kiev filled with garlic and parsley butter - handcut chips and salad
OR
Lamb kebabs - chunks of leg of lamb, marinated in olive oil, garlic, lemon zest and juice, black pepper, on skewers with peppers/onion/mushrooms, served with saffron vegetable rice

Puds
Tropical fruit salad - mango, kiwifruit, grapes, pineapple strawberries banana and peaches with cream/ice cream
OR
Apple pie with cinnamon ice cream or whipped cream
OR
Red berry trifle

12 cheeses crackers, grapes and celery

Coffee/liqueur coffee

GALLONS of cold wine!!

[joggerjayne]

John Smith's ?

Is that one of those creamy beers ?

[merciasounds]

I'll have a nice John smiths with you Joe!!

[joeluke]

yeah, far better than Manchester Ship Canal water (i.e. Boddingtons)

[merciasounds]

Tis JJ - smooth with a creamy Guinness type head - oooh...i've done it now.....Guinness i love Guinness

[joggerjayne]

I'm not much of a beer drinker, but I think the thin beers with bubbly heads are nicer than the smooth beers with creamy heads.

[merciasounds]

Joe have you tried Guinness' bitter that's nice too....

[Jemisa]

What are Layberries ??

[joeluke]

Never tried Guinness bitter

Also like Old Speckled Hen and Greene King Abbot Ale

[joeluke]

JJ, sounds like cask beer you're describing there

[merciasounds]

Do you mean tayberries? They're a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry and very tasty too!!

http://www.google.com...num=4&ved=0CDIQsAQwAw

[joggerjayne]

Old Speckled Hen has the fox in its advert ?

Our local brewery is called Harvey's. It's meant to be very nice beer.

[joeluke]

JJ, thats the one

On the Old Speckled Hen website you have to enter your date of birth before you can enter!

[Jemisa]

Yeah, Tayberries sorry (Can't find me reading glasses)
These are new to me but yes they do look delicious in the pics.
thanks.

jem.

[merciasounds]

Joe, My brother in law works as a brewer at Theakstons, I love the Old Perculier and the XB in bottles, and I like the Best bitter or the Black bull draught - the seasonal ale Paradise is lovely too...

[merciasounds]

http://www.theakstons.co.uk/ales/index.html

[joggerjayne]

Isn't Black Bull a separate brewery ?

[jaffa cake]

i think im back in the seventies i dont know what to have

[grasscarp]

asparagus - lamb - fruit salad with ice cream. No cheeses or coffee.
Oh and the wine (she said trying to sound casual about it!)

[joggerjayne]

I've just Googled that brewery.

It's called "Black Sheep" ... not Black Bull.

Sorry.