QUALITY COOKING

At Old Orchard House we pride ourselves on the quality of meals we offer guests. Where possible we use locally or home grown organic ingredients. Special diets can be catered for with advanced warning.

We provide a wide variety of choices for breakfast including:

• Traditional English breakfast
• American pancakes
• Omelettes
• Swiss muesli
• Fresh fruit from the garden when in season
• Organic yoghurt
• Kippers or kedgeree
• Wide variety of cereals and fruit juices
• Home made jams and preserves

If booked in advance, table d’hote evening meals are also available, made to the same high standards. Meals cost from £15 for two courses or £20 for three. Marion will be delighted to cook for you a meal tailored to your dietary requirements.

Candle lit dinners for two are a speciality. Dishes offered previously include:

Starters

• Carrot, orange and mango soup
• Somerset smoked chicken Caesar salad
• Tian of aubergine, avocado and tomato

Main courses

• Mendip lamb steak in red wine with porcini mushrooms
• Baked cod with a crispy herb crouton and olive tapenade topping
• Mushroom pate en croute with a madeira sauce

  All served with seasonal vegetables

Desserts

• Hot chocolate soufflé with chilled raspberries
• Spiced apple charlotte on a blackberry coulis from the garden
• Sticky toffee pudding

  Followed by coffee or tea and chocolates