The lunch menu was quite limited, but had everything you expect to see on a pub-grub menu. A range of jacket potatoes, sandwiches, omelettes etc starting from around £5. There was also a good selection on the a la carte menu, available all day, including some lighter options and all the usual pies and pasta dishes you could want. Being a hot, sunny day and having worked hard all morning, Dad and I chose sandwiches (ham and cheese for him, classic club for me) while Mum ordered the starter from the specials board, green lipped muscles in garlic and herb sauce.
The mussels were the biggest I have ever seen! About three times the size you'd expect, all soaked in a lovely rich garlic sauce. Very antisocial, but very tasty. The sandwiches came with a pile of fresh salad and a good sized portion of chips. The ham was clearly cut from the bone and about a third of an inch thick! The club sandwich was exactly as I had hoped. Fresh toasted bread, lovely tasty bacon and moist grilled chicken. Very filling, and excellent value at just £27 for the three of us, including a couple of pints of Harvey's Sussex and a soft drink for Mum.
Hardly gastronomy at its finest, but a really good, filling pub lunch at a good price. Worth a special journey? Perhaps not. But if you're in the area and wondering where to go.......
Intrigued by the Polish night - have you been? What's the food like?
ReplyDeleteIt was a fun night, a couple of different Polish beers, a set menu, a couple of Polish spirits, very friendly! The food was.....interesting. A sour cucumber soup (which was really good!), then braised beef with potato dumplings (which were just a little too much like wallpaper paste for me!) and then a delicious desert that too much Polish beer & honey schnapps like drink preclude me from telling you what it was! Not sure I'd rush back for the next one, which is a shame because I love pirogi but they don't do pirogi at the Redstart! :-(
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