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the best of eating out Strattons Swaffham
Briarfields Titchwell
Strattons is an award-winning, green boutique hotel that appeals to all the senses and eating here is a real pleasure.
Located in Titchwell, Briarfields’ restaurant offers an inventive and constantly evolving menu. Simple starters include Scotch eggs with mustard and tarragon mayonnaise, cooked to perfection – crisp on the outside, moist sausage encases still soft quail’s egg yolks.
The chic restaurant, open daily from 6.30pm and Sunday lunch, serves organic and locally sourced produce in an innovative and exciting modern English style. Extensive wine list featuring some organic and bio-dynamic examples. Large groups, children and parties welcome. The seasonal menu has a strong regional identity, you might see Muntjac and dapple cheese burger with beef dripping chips or steamed chestnut mushroom suet pudding with baby leeks and goats cheese curd. Based in the Brecks, Strattons is well placed to source good ingredients grown in a rich and diverse area, which has long been associated with agriculture and food production. On-site cafe deli ‘CoCoes’ is open Monday to Saturday, offering great coffee, fair-trade teas, homemade cakes, cookies, light bites, all day breakfast and tasty take-away. Fully licensed with a monthly Tapas night, usually the first Wednesday of the month. Visit us online for more information at: www.strattonshotel.com
Main dishes include seared rump of Aberdeen Angus beef with caramelised English onion and ‘Smelly Apeth’ gratin, pommes Anna and homemade mustard. ‘Perfick Pork’ piggy platter, Asian spices, butternut squash congee, pak choy and sesame makes a ‘heavenly’ choice. Both dishes use meat from local suppliers and it is here that Briarfields excels – the hotel’s owners avoid mass-catering suppliers in favour of fellow small businesses and the quality shines through. Dessert traditionalists will be enchanted by Toffee Apple Tart with vanilla ice cream which transforms childhood memories into sophisticated adult flavours. Pistachio and Olive Oil Cake with Greek yoghurt and rosewater syrup meld into a smooth blend evocative of Greek holidays. Briarfields is truly a Norfolk delight.
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