SEASONAL ALTERNATIVES
Served Monday to Saturday
Ascrofts Cauliflower Soup,
Mrs Kirkhams Rarebit,
£4.50
Smoked Salmon Fishcake,
Spiced Parsley Sauce
£5.00
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Oven Baked Hake,
Wilted Northcote Organic Leaves, Sweet Cured Streaky Bacon, Slow Cooked Tomatoes, Parmesan, Croutons, Garlic Dressing,
Garlic Roasted Potato Wedges
£12.95
Barnsley Lamb Chop, Ascrofts Cauliflower Cheese, Buttered New Potatoes, Watercress
£16.50
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English Gooseberry & Bramley Apple Crumble, Homemade Custard
£5.00
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Ribble Valley Inns now take Reservations for Lunch or Dinner Monday to Friday
SEASONAL FOOD PROMOTIONS
Listed here will be the current seasonal food promotion along with our previous promotions which will give you a brief insight into the history and the people behind this wonderful seasonal food.
CURRENT PROMOTIONS
LANCASHIRE PARSNIPS
One of the real joys of Autumn’s golden months is that the local harvest of parsnips begins to make its way to our kitchens.
download PDF (207kb) >PAST PROMOTIONS
GOING GREEN
Jack's beanstalk may have been of giant proportions, but even the more down-to-earth varieties of broad beans and peas are among nature's more accomplished climbers, reaching towards the sun and the blue skies of July and August as they come into the peak of their season.
THIS LITTLE PIGGY...
Wherever you go in the world, in butchers, markets and restaurants you’ll find something called ‘York Ham’. Sadly, the vast majority of these offerings will fall woefully short of the wonderful tastes and textures of the real thing.
STRAWBERRIES...RIPE STRAWBERRIES!
Does anything sum up an English summer more
deliciously than the thought of sweet,
unbelievably juicy, freshly picked strawberries?
FARMER SHARP'S HERDWICK MUTTON, CUMBRIAN NATIVE BREED BEEF & NATURALLY REARED PINK VEAL
The Lake District's grasslands provide grazing for the herds of sheep and cattle that give us some of the finest meat money can buy.
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
Back on his farm in Goosnargh. Ian hatches, rears and sells thousands of partridges, pheasants and wild ducks for shoots.
ORKNEY ISLANDS LOBSTER
For many of us the colourful and rather startling appearance of the lobster suggests it thrives in the warmer and more exotic waters of the world.
ENGLISH CHILLIES
LITTLE GREEN MEN
Little Green Men has been producing Chillies from Chorley in sunny Lancashire for more than a decade, & is the unlikely labour of Richard Alker's love of chilli growing - a hobby which got ever so slightly out of control!
LANCASHIRE CAULIFLOWERS
MEET THE GROWER
The Ascroft family have been farming the land around Holmes in Lancashire since the turn of the century so they know a thing or two about growing.
FORMBY ASPARAGUS
A SPECIALISED HABIT FOR ASPARAGUS
Asparagus thrives in the freely drained sands of the Formby coastline...
WESTMORELAND DAMSONS
CUMBRIA'S DAMSON VALLEY
Damsons have been grown in the Lyth and Windsor valleys for
generations...
ENGLISH APPLES
FROM MESSRS. WINSOR, WILLINGTON FRUIT FARM CHESHIRE
Set in the heart of one of the most picturesque locations of central Cheshire, “ Winsors Fruit Farm” is a family run business and farm shop established over 50 years...
SOUTHPORT SAMPHIRE
ORIGINS
From late June until mid-to-late September, Marsh Samphire is harvested from the muddiest parts of Southport and Banks' salt marshes and mud flats...
