This week's specials
21st – 23rd February
Eggs Royal with East Neuk Kilnhouse smoked salmon, English muffins and farm poached eggs
£12.95
Our breakfast Eggs Royale this weekend is a classic dish, and is made all the better by the delicious, local East Neuk Kilnhouse smoked salmon and our own farm eggs.
The generally accepted theory is that Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York created the dish in the 1860s. A customer called Mrs LeGrand Benedict said that she wanted “something new”, and the chef, Charles Ranhofer, created eggs à la Benedict for her. It then appeared in his 1894 cookbook, The Epicurean. However, it’s never that simple(!), and some argue that Lemuel Benedict ordered the dish at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, to help with his hangover in 1894.
Regardless, it has become a stable of cafés and restaurants around the world and, such is its popularity, there are now an enormous number of versions. Eggs Benedict (with poached eggs and ham) is the most famous, while other well-known versions include Eggs Royale (replace the ham with smoked salmon) and Eggs Florentine (replace the ham with spinach). That merely scratches the surface, though, as there’s Eggs Balmoral (haggis instead of bacon), Eggs Blackstone (add a slice of tomato) and Eggs Blanchard (use béchamel instead of hollandaise) – and that’s just the ‘Bs’!
Look out for the amazing orange yolks on our farm eggs, and let us know what you think as we’re keen to add an Eggs Benedict or Eggs Royale to the menu when we next change it.
Korean fried chicken with a gochujang sesame glaze, fries and coleslaw
£11.95
This is our lunch special this week and it’s very similar to the Japanese dish karaage chicken. You marinate the chicken in gochujang, ginger and soy overnight and you then panné it before deep frying.
I always use chicken thighs as it’s my favourite part of the bird and it tastes absolutely delicious. Come and say hello this weekend and let me know what you think!
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