Newsletter 11.01.12
Right then. We're up and running with our menu for this spring-like Winter...
And here it is!
STARTERS
Soup of the day with homemeade bread £4.35
Antipasti; Roast Red Peppers, Feta, Olives, Garlic Mushrooms, Marinated Artichoke Heart £6.95
Hummus with smoky chickpeas on top. With homemade bread £5.25
Chestnut and Cranberry Pate with homemade walnut toast £5.55
Warm Moroccan Mash with Pita £5.55
TRIO of the above three pates £6.95
Brie and Courgette Tart £5.95
Old Peculiar Baked Mushroom Rarebit £5.75
Grilled Goats Cheese Salad £6.25
MAIN COURSES
Puy Shepherd's Pie £11.95
a delicious Puy lentil casserole topped with mashed potato, Served with turnip, cabbage, rosemary/cherry tomato skewers
Mushroom Stroganof Lasagne £12.45
with apple and walnut, rocket salad
Cauliflower Cheese Stromboli! £12.75
Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman you're so pirdy * It's a savoury roly poly! - a layered filling with mostly cauliflower cheese rolled in a pizza dough
Served with roast tomato sauce and apple and walnut, rocket salad
Baked Field Mushroom, Wild Mushroom and Goat's Cheese Cashew Plait £13.45
with port sauce and green beans cooked with silver onion
Spinach, 3-Cheese and Petit Pois Pancakes £11.95
Korma Koftas £12.45
mixed nut koftas served with korma sauce, basmati rice and jalfrezi carrot salad
Roast Red Pepper, Chick Pea and Smoked Paprika Goulash £10.95
with a bubble and squeak cake and soured cream
Roast Butternut and Sun-blushed Tomato Waiting Room Sausages! £11.95
with cabbage, turnip and mash and a light tarragon and lemon liquor
Side orders: Sesame Potatoes £2.80, Homemade Bread basket £2, Table Salad £4, Mashed Turnip & Sweet Potato £2.50
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The Matchbox Cabaret
We are taking something of a break from our regular Sunday night entertainments while we focus on some other projects this year. We're planning to start up again in the autumn - but for now we have just two IRRESISTIBLE events booked in, (both of which have sold alot of tickets already).
On January 29th we welcome back the humdrum-defying Josie Long to The Waiting Room with The Future Is Another Place... (tickets)
and on February 19th, legend of the fall and dervish dynamo Dave Swarbrick kicks it up a notch in the tightly packed where-the-magic-happens back room. (tickets)
PLEASE NOTE - WE ARE TO CLOSE ON THREE SUNDAY EVENINGS IN JANUARY WHILE OUR OVER-WORKED STAFF RECOVER FROM CHRISTMAS, WE WILL BE CLOSED FROM 6PM (After Knit Club) on JANUARY 8th, 15th and 22nd but open as normal again from January 29th onwards.
We are open as usual at all other times.
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Wine Cellar - Skiningrove Country Wines
View of the wine cellar & Ian Coles.
Skinningrove is an inlet from the sea into The North York Moors, a little way along the coast from Whitby. The surrounding moors are scrubbed with heather and gauze bush, with the occasional gnarled elder tree alongside the dipping and winding roads, with verges that are otherwise strewn with nettles, bramble bushes, lobster pots and boat parts.
Ian Coles has one such elder tree across the lane from his back yard and coal sheds. And in the June of 1999 he made his first wine - from its spring time blossom - referencing ancient wine recipe books. In the autumn of the following year he made elderberry wine for the first time and in the mean time - over the next few years he experimented and perfected wonderful recipes from all that was available from within his garden and the surrounding lanes and hedgerow - from the lemon balm bush that grows against the brickwork of his house, to the black currant and gooseberry bushes in his back garden, the nettles and hawthorn and gauze of the surrounding lanes and moorland, and the sap of the silver birch, and young oak leaves from the woods.
By 2003 Ian was ready - with some beautiful wines - to go to market. And the wines that he has produced and continued to develop since that time really are delightful. When Ian pitched up at The Waiting Room so that we could sample his wares - we were quickly drunk, and quickly taken by the subtlety and delicacy of the flavours. His Skinningrove Country Wines have great variety and are true to the character of the main pulp ingredients used.
His is a true cottage industry, his old wash house is his winery, where he will typically have 8 x 5 gallon bins of ferment on the go at any one time, with a four ring cooker to cook up his must. And his cellar is his bonded warehouse and bottling plant. All fully licensed and certified by Customs and Excise.
Organic sugars and honey are delivered by Suma Wholefoods* (on the same run as The Waiting Room Friday wholefood delivery). Bottles are rescued and reused from local cafes and bottle banks; retrieved, washed (by a local farmer), sterilised, filled, recorked, foiled and labelled quite literally in-house. The whole process of reusing bottles in this way is more expensive than buying new bottles, but clearly it is more right.
The Waiting Room is now selling Skinningrove Country Wines - we're typically taking 8 - 10 flavours at a time from a range of over 50 varieties; Raspberry and Rose Petal, Clover, Parsnip Damson, Sloe, Rhubarb, Ginger, Hawthorn Blossom, Blackberry... delicate medium whites, strong dry reds, and full bodied and warming mediums.