Need I actually say anything about this evening of silliness? Stonking menu tho’!!

The Red Lion

Hunningham

01926 632715

Valentines dinner

Tuesday February 14^th 2012

Available from 6pm by sittings

4 courses (Starter or pudding) £25.50

5 Courses £29.95

Canapes

Starters

Pea soup with crispy frog’s leg & truffle oil

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Maldon rock Oysters with lemon & shallot vinegar

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Parmesan doughnuts & Chestnut soup with pear carpaccio (V)

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Pan-fried scallops with black pudding & cauliflower puree

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Whole box baked Camembert (To share) with chilli jam, & rustic breads (V)

Sorbet

Coconut, chilli & lime

Mains

Warwickshire lamb rump (served pink), Local purple sprouting, fondant potato,

confit cherry tomatoes & anchovy & garlic puree

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Local mixed roast (To share): Rare rump of beef, rack of lamb & slow cooked belly pork with roast new potatoes & mixed vegetables

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Pan-fried John Dory with vanilla mash, spinach, baby leeks & vermouth sauce

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Offchurch chicken breast with braised leeks, tarragon mash & a cep porchini cream sauce

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Heirloom tomato, goats cheese & herb tart with Worcester & maple sweet potato fries (V)

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Venison Steak (Served pink) with wild mushroom gratin, saffron hollandaise & dauphinoise potatoes

Desserts

All to share

Chocolate taster plate

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“Retro sweets” taster plate

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Selection of English cheese & biscuits

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Party on Wayne, Party on Garth.
This New Year’s Eve  as well as our beautiful 4 course dinner epic from the chef team there is the incredible music of “Bass, Birds & Beats” to really make the evening bish bash bosh. These girls are superstars in waiting, so cool that they can freeze unfreezing stuff. In a sauna.

If you just want a liquid celebration (Patsy and Eddie) there are drinking tickets only, but early booking essential as we ain’t got masses left!!

Can I/ we put it out there that although it is festive season, that does get a bit repetitive in our game! So although very early I’d like to make a play for next year’s films. Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels to kick things off, followed by The Dark Knight on Sunday and finishing with Ferris and His day off. Plenty of time to sort this but that feels nice to us.

Every Weekday 5-7pm is Tractorspotting which means ho ho ho goodwill discount on beers, wines, ales and spirits! Friday early evening we lash out some home made free bar snacks too.
What’s not to love??? The abuse is free with every pint as well. Lionistas, we salute you. Tractors baby!

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I have to say this was the busiest I have ever seen the Red Lion. My guess is that we had somewhere in the region of 2000 people who turned up for the bonfire festivities. Firstly I would like to say a big thank you for making the effort and secondly I would like to apologise for if you didnt manage to get a drink or a spot of nosh- I simply had no idea that so many would come. Still…those lasers were pretty cool. Anyways I’ll have a long hard look at the way we do things and see if we cant tweak it a little so that we have a few less disgruntled types!! Thanks again!

Grimble Timple my ever growing Narnian children of the Batman. Tis I, the silent and gibbering mong of Hunningham (apparently that term is derogatory but I’m talking about me and I don’t mind so much!) I felt that it was time to fondle your grey matter with my words of sensibility and inform you of such glad tidings as Bonfire Night, Christmassy stuff & an impending new swine list (We’re selecting different pigs to slaughter on a daily basis and then making a list of our favourites- don’t be ridiculous that wouldn’t be cost effective and it would be a tad messy- grow up!)

Right first up is Bonfire & Bangers 4. Yes it’s Four years since I first opened the doors to The Red Lion, Hunningham and here we still are. Feels like a lifetime already! So as ever it’s birthday time, Bonfire Night, British sausage week & an excuse to have another bash in the rain….it’s what we do!

This year November 5^th is a Saturday so added to all the usual shenanigans (thank goodness for spell check) there’s “A Frickin’ laser” show as well as fireworks (no expense spent) all to the dulcet tunes of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon- sadly it’s just the music- (I fell out with Roger Waters as well and we just cant be in the same room- musical differences mainly- that and I kept trying to play the spoons over the guitar solos) Anyway what you’ll have will be an outside bar in a marquee, Pig roast, Mulled wine, spiced cider, BBQ, sausages, Burritos, a big fat bonfire, fireworks, ‘frickin’ laser show and Dark Side Of The Moon. It’s a free event, as ever with free parking in a (probably very) muddy field. Come down and spend some money will ya?!

Next up all the Christmassy bits are available online at the usual place www.redlionhunningham.co.uk oddly if you then click on Christmas 2011 it’ll take you right there!! That includes The Christmas party menu, Christmas Day menu & New Years Eve menu. Skills!

In other news the pub was nominated as Pub of The Year in The Good Pub Guide 2012 – I suggested that it must’ve been a slow year for good pubs but what an honour!! We didn’t win, like, but to be nominated with only another 8 pubs was pretty special. We have also received a food award to go with our wine award- thankfully we got another sticker (I like stickers).

Whilst on the subject of little red books (wasn’t I?) We have also made it into The Michelin Guide! I am so pleased (page 247 under Hunningham) what an amazing achievement- well done to Darran and the boys!!

We are in the process of giving the wine list a big fat overhaul and will hopefully be forcing some new wines on you over the coming weeks…. We’re tasting reds this afternoon- It’s a tough job but someone has to do it!! The food menu is heading down that wintery route at the moment so there’s lots of new dishes coming your way- I know, I know it’s about piggin’ time!!

The fires are now lit every day (Free smoke for early diners) although the more optimistic of you still persist on eating outside!

We have invested in a fourth ale pump so now you can expand your mind and try something new. (Not Morris dancing)

And finally we have a visiting table magician visiting once a month on a Sunday, (he’s a visitor) although he’s so magic that we never actually know which Sunday he’s coming on but it’s always betwixt the hours of 1pm & 4pm!

And it’s back to the studio…

I don’t think there’s much else to bore you with apart from the usual- If you’d like to stop receiving these pearls of wisdom simply reply with the Subject: Get Lost Four Eyes and you’ll be terminated. If you want more- be old school and come down the pub or be a geeklord tweet away @lionhunningham or find us on Facebook- we’re there somewhere!!

Remember just because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character…

Laters wombats

Sam

A couple of photos that Tom took throughout…

Its our fourth birthday here at the Red Lion, It’s British sausage week, Bonfire night and a saturday night!! Soooo massive bonfire, fireworks, outside bar, mulled wine, pig roast bbq, sausages etc AAAAANNNNDD a laser show featuring the music of Pink Floyd. Yup it’s free and has free parking in a muddy field (probably)

It’ll kick off outside at around 6pm but we wont light the bonfire until about 8pm and then we’ll start the show around 8.15 I’d have thunk!

Ok- here’s the last thing I was expecting to read yesterday after the Indian summer weekend of chaos and bonkersnessness. It seems that a crazy person(s) has nominated The Cat Rouge for greatness. As my mother would say “Well, blow me!” though I think that, perhaps, I shouldn’t say things like that.

Here’s a link to the site

I know nothing else about it except that the guide comes out on 6th October.

Here’s the press release- and whilst we didn’t win- I am honoured!!

Good Pub Guide 2012 – Heart of England winners