Head Chef & Director of Food • Paul Hogben
Autumn: the Game Season has arrived!
Dear Members, As you read this the new Autumn menu has been launched at the Club. The Summer menu was successful, given the current circumstances, with Dorset Lobsters and Crab gracing the tables of many on the Terrace and in the Restaurant. Along with the many glasses of Champagne served… there was no better place to spend time away from the outside world. Autumn brings a different challenge to us in the kitchen. Game is back in season and the more robust and hearty dishes return, including some of your favourites. The menus we are offering at the moment are slightly smaller than you have been used to before we went into lockdown. This is based on social distancing measures in the Kitchen and the need to avoid food wastage while the Club is quieter than normal. Of course, the freshness and quality of produce remains unchanged. We have decided to run the Autumn menu until December and then introduce a new menu to run through until the end of January. This will give you greater choice during that period, which would normally have seen both the Autumn and Winter menus.
Hopefully, as we become busier and guidelines are relaxed the size of the menu can increase and more daily special dishes can be produced. Upon the re-opening of the Club the Breakfast offering had to be altered due to social distancing in the Kitchen and Government guidelines, meaning the normal Breakfast Buffet is currently not allowed. Continental Breakfast is served to you on a tray to minimise the number of visits to the table and English Breakfast options are still available. We have now also added West Country Lamb’s Kidneys, Grimsby Smoked Haddock, Porridge and individually packaged cereals to the breakfast selection, which I hope will be a welcome addition.
“Game is back in season and the more robust and hearty dishes return, including some of your favourites”
Thank you for all the lovely, supportive comments from those that have been back to the Club since we re-opened, all of which have been passed onto my team in the Kitchen. Looking forward to seeing you over the next few months. Enjoy! Chef
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