WHAT could be nicer? Good food, fine wine, excellent service and a table in the sun at which you can enjoy it all?
At Kettering Park Hotel & Spa, the al fresco dining area is a popular choice with diners when the weather allows and with the late spring and summer months ahead of us, it’s bound to be well used.
Regardless of whether you choose to dine inside or out, the hotel’s new restaurant dinner menu will make it a meal to remember.
Still embracing the best of local produce wherever possible, the menu has a few surprises in store from close at hand and further afield.
The hotel is a popular business venue but it’s also known for having one of the leading restaurants in the area, serving quality of dishes prepared by the talented kitchen team.
Among the dishes on the new menu are a range of small dishes upon which to snack while perusing the menu, including freshly baked artisan bread with oil and aged balsamic vinegar and crispy barbecue Blythburgh pork belly with apple and cider jelly and grain mustard.
Appetisers include freshly made soup; hot garlic butter king prawns, chilli and samphire on toasted wholemeal sourdough with griddled lime; and Melton Mowbray pork pie, served tableside with local chutneys and mustard.
The char-grill offers sirloin or fillet steak, hand-made beef and venison burgers and butterfield break of chicken, while the range of fish dishes includes a mixed fish grill (sea trout, monkfish and hake with scallop, herb mayonnaise and thin fries and East Coast fish pie with hake, sea trout, queen scallops and smoked salmon finished with Old Nick Cheddar and creamed mashed potato.
Herb crusted rack of Suffolk lamb, roasted Blythburgh pork fillet stuffed with Tuxford and Tebbutt Stilton and pan roasted saddle of rabbit with sage will tempt the meat lovers, while for dessert there’s a choice that includes warm new season rhubarb and vanilla custard tart with clotted cream ice cream and strawberry, basil and meringue Eton Mess with chocolate sauce.
Andrew Hollett, General Manager of the Kettering Park Hotel and Spa, said: “Hopefully we will get some lovely summer days so that people can enjoy lunch or dinner al fresco, overlooking our lawned gardens. The al fresco area is heated if there’s a bit of a chill in the air, or else it’s the perfect place to sit outside and enjoy a drink and nibbles while you’re looking at the menu, for those who would rather eat inside.”
For more information or to book, contact Kettering Park Hotel & Spa on 01536 416666 or visit www.thwaites.co.uk/kettering-park-hotel