Month: December 2024

Get the Yorkshire pudding right and you have the difference between a Sunday lunch and a Sunday roast.

 

Which is what you can expect at Hof’s in Henley. Serving over fifty different wines by both the glass or bottle, brakspear cask ales as well as a full range of draught products, a good selection of bottled beers and expertly-served cocktails, this restaurant, cum pub, cum wine bar specialises in a Sunday lunch that is different.

 

A selection of seasonal roasted and steamed vegetables, roast potatoes and their homemade Yorkshire puddings served with a flavoursome gravy and a choice between Jacobs Ladder beef rib or slowly braised crispy pork knuckle.

 

Memorably different.

A carvery like no other at Langbrook Farm.

Yes it might be part of a restaurant chain but the traditional carvery at The Langbrook Farm in Havant is worth a try. A great place to take the whole family, friendly, welcoming and warm. They also serve a hearty breakfast as well as pub classics and a selection of homemade cakes which are all freshly baked in the restaurant.

Whilst not a carvery one of the best Sunday roasts in a quaint village on the South Coast can be found at the Coal Exchange in Emsworth.

There is nothing particularly special about it other than it is wholesome pub food

And the pudding to follow.

A generous plate of home cooked apple crumble with lashings of cream and a fire in winter.

Where the taste of East meets West. A typical English Sunday roast spiced and reinvented with the flavours of  India.

 

A classic twist to an established  tradition. Asha’s Sunday lunch menu in Manchester has combined their contemporary Indian cuisine with a British institution: the Sunday roast.

 

The two course menu features  Eastern spiced roasts, such as a  tandoori chicken duo of roast breast and leg,  served with methi mushroom,  masala roasted carrots, cumin potatoes, Indian bread and makhani gravy.

 

Alternatively slow-roasted leg of lamb, cumin potatoes, coconut beans, masala roasted carrots, a spiced Yorkshire pudding and salan gravy, or tandoori masala roasted butternut squash with paneer ka soola, cumin potatoes, garlic spinach, coconut beans,  and makhani gravy.

 

With sides including, homemade spiced Yorkshire puddings, Lamb fat roast potatoes, cheesy chicken tikka makhani fries, extra fine green beans with garlic, mustard and coconut, cheddar baked gratinated makhani cauliflower cheese.

 

But it is the cheesecake and Indian bread pudding for dessert that caught my attention. Slices of bread fried in ghee, soaked in rabri and topped with saffron milk, pistachio, almonds and cashew nuts.