WARWICK HALL - VERY PRIVATE, VERY SPECIAL, VERY BEAUTIFUL

Dining at Warwick Hall

Food at Warwick Hall is an important part of the pleasure. Fresh, original, locally grown - or caught - or laid - often from the garden - we love food.

We think you'll be able to tell the difference when we give you sausages made by our local butcher, Steve Wilson, or milk delivered from a nearby farm by Charles Taylor. Life is too short for a poor breakfast. Our porridge goes into the Aga the night before, eggs are new laid and the fruit salad is being made while youre pulling on your socks.

At dinner you can expect to be pleasantly surprised - but the basics are the same: good Cumbrian food underpinning our greedy interest in all things culinary.

Summer Dinner

Vegetarian Supper

Fish Menu

Dining Room Dinner

Winter Dinner

Wine Menu

Dinner on the terrace one perfect summer evening

Asparagus (Herefordshire) with Hollandaise Sauce (new laid eggs)
Beef Fillet (from Wigton), au jus with Cognac
New Potatoes (our own garden)
Green Beans (not local - too early)
Salad (our own garden)
Strawberries (Scottish) and Cream (Cumbrian)
Meringues (the other half of the Hollandaise) with mascarpone cream
Almond Florentines (homemade)
English Cheese (some of it Cumbrian)
Carr's Biscuits (made in Carlisle!)
Coffee (Italy - they're good at coffee, the Italians)

Vegetarian Supper for a Yoga Retreat

Carrot and Fresh Coriander Salad, with lime juice nam pla dressing
Cheese Strata (new laid eggs, local milk and cheese)
Tomato Sauce (homemade)
Avocado Vinaigrette (divine olive oil from a friend's Spanish connection)
Courgette, Broccoli and Chick Pea Salad (our own lettuce)
Fruit Platter

Fish on the Menu

Early summer Risotto (the first broad beans from the garden)
Salmon (not our own, I'm afraid, Nick is careful about catch & release)
with a spicy ginger soy lime and coriander sauce
or hollandaise if you'd rather
New potatoes (local)
Spinach (the garden)
Green salad (the garden, of course)
Raspberries (Scotland)
Creme Brulee (new laid eggs and cream from Charles Taylor)
Cheese (Lancashire)
Carr's Biscuits
That delicious Italian coffee!

Dinner in the Dining Room

Ricotta Gnocchi wrapped in Aubergine, with a sage butter sauce
Extra thick Pork Chops with Nick's Magic Crackling
Apple Confiture (homemade from our own apples)
Steamed Potatoes (Lancashire - parsley from the garden)
Broad Beans and Green Peas (too early for our own)
Homemade Chocolate Tart
Vanilla Ice Cream (Taste of Eden - made in Cumbria)
Fresh Plums, sliced
French Cheese
Carr's Biscuits
And lovely Italian Coffee again

A Winter Dinner

Homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup
Leg of Lamb with mint sauce
or
Loin of Pork with Nick's crackling and apple sauce
Nick's special Roast Potatoes and
Mashed Potatoes
Carrots
Parsnips
Cabbage (from the garden)
Hot Lemon Pudding, with cream
French cheese
Carr's Biscuits
And our favourite Italian coffee

The Wine List

Please click on The Wine List to view our full wine selection.

Cuisine at Warwick Hall

Our cuisine comes into its own at large parties and family reunions. It's good enough - and sophisticated enough - to satisfy grown ups who love their food and expect to dine well, but it's not complicated. Little people, fussy eaters, and true blue British bulldogs will sit up to the table with pleasure. Who knows? They might even try something new!

Our wonderful cabbage is a case in point. We shred it very finely - cook it in a flash - and always make twice as much as you'd expect. It's a revelation to many guests who 'don't eat cabbage' and invariably they want another helping!

Choices and Menus

If you're planning a house party, we'll confer with you about your wish list, the likes and dislikes of the group and come up with a happy solution. We can easily add a vegetarian option that will have the carnivores looking across the table with envy, or a pasta dish for a child who really doesn't like anything else.

Special Needs Diets

We can manage gluten free diets, but can't offer to provide nut free, diabetic or vegan food. We suggest guests with special needs use the self catering kitchens even if they're not self catering, and bring their food to the table. That way, there's no question it's exactly right.

Wine

At the moment we don't have a wine licence. Were in the process of applying for one, but in the meantime wine is supplied by an excellent local business, which delivers cheerfully in time for dinner. Youll pay them directly, with no mark up to us. They've created a special Warwick Hall wine list to work with our menu click on the link to see it.

Alternatively, you may bring your own for a modest corkage fee of 3 per bottle for anything drunk in the dining room.

Warwick Hall. Carlisle Accommodation

Food