Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food, burgers | Tags: Beef, Steak, hellifield, highland, burger, ale, country, hetton, peas, real, bull, chips, beans, whitby, broughton, nigel, haworth, limestone, dripping, scampi, broad, courgette, puree, rabbit, faggots
I’d just like to say “the Rabbit Faggots at the Bull @ Broughton are really quite excellent”!
Rabbit Faggots
Following on from my previous post about Nigel Haworth’s latest pub enterprise we have just been for lunch and had excellent Wild Rabbit Faggots with Roast Courgette Purée, Tomato Juices £5.50 as a starter followed by the 100% Chargrilled Minced Hellifield Highland Beef Steak, English Muffin, Real Chips cooked in Dripping, Mustard Mayo, Tomato Relish and Pickles £9.75.
Other dishes tried in our luncheon party included the excellent Loose Birds Free-Range Chicken Coarse Liver Pâté, Golden Raisins, Cumberland Sauce, Toasted Homemade Bread £5.50
a very large plateful of Whitby Scampi in Beer Batter, Fresh Broad Beans and Peas (very green, seasonal, fresh and very delicious), Real Chips in Dripping, Lemon and Black Pepper Mayonnaise £14.50
and Limestone Country Beef Ribeye 8oz served with Real Chips cooked in Dripping, Garrick Farm Flat Mushroom,
Willowdene Watercress and Battered Onion Rings £17.50
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- Chicken Liver Pate
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- Hellifield Highland Steak Burger
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- Whitby Scampi
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- Limestone Country Rib Eye Steak
The Bull always looks busy at opening times and if possible I would go late rather than early to avoid a wait, saying that the staff are very personable and attentive and it really is no hardship having a quick drink whilst waiting for your table, choose from the excellent local selection of hand pulled Timothy Taylors, Copper Dragon or Hetton Pale Ale along with Peroni on draught, a comprehensive wine list is also available.
More info on the The Bull @ Broughton, Skipton, North Yorkshire website
Filed under: Eating, Food, burgers | Tags: BBQ, Beef, burger, lettuce, mushroom, organic, richmond, river, sauce, slug
For comparison & for purposes of research you understand I felt compelled to try a “Slug Burger” at the Slug & Lettuce by the river in Richmond.
A moist organic burger, nicely presented with the onion ring perched on the mushroom stalk, tasty bbq sauce and a whole basket of chips.
From the Menu “SLUG ULTIMATE BEEF BURGER, With mushroom, Cheddar, bacon, beer-battered onion rings and a BBQ sauce. All of our beef burgers are made with 100% British organic beef and served with seasonal salad leaves, gherkin, tomato, red onion and fries. Our beef burgers are available in two sizes — single £10.45 or double £12.45.” Pic below shows the single.
Slug Ultimate Burger
Filed under: Eating, Food | Tags: Arc, BBQ, burger, Headingley, Leeds, local, lunch, onion, rings, sauce
Dropped into The Arc in Headingley, Leeds for lunch between meeting’s recently and tried out an Arc Burger, lots of burger, nice juicy meat, tasty bbq sauce and great onion rings, served with a nice mini bucket of chips on the side. It was very good and reading the blurb in the menu they source locally. Friendly, fast service, great spot for lunch. Couldn’t tell you what the beer was like as it was coke only for me!!
From the menu “The Guv’ner 12oz £10.95, Our iconic double burger coated in melted, Monteray Jack, smoked BBQ sauce, bacon & mayo topped with onion rings.”
The Guvnor Burger
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: 4, Beer Blogs, bitter, blonde, bowl, burger, business, channel, crab, fishcake, fox, haddock, mayonnaise, microbrewery, morrissey, neil, olde, pie, punch, risky, risotto, Steak
Tried lunch at Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn, Marton cum Grafton near Harrogate today. This is the pub taken over and reinvented by Neil Morrissey and Richard Fox. The pub doesn’t look much from the front but a lot of work has gone into the inside, exposed wooden beams, coal fires in 3 rooms and a modern curvy bar that all works well together. Outside the rear of the pub the outbuildings have been completely rebuilt and now house the Morrissey Fox microbrewery.
The Food… to start crab & coriander risotto, black pudding, potato and bacon terrine and the soup. for mains we tried Galloway Steak & Ale Pie, Aberdeen Angus Beefburger with Mrs Kirkham’s Cheddar and the Haddock Fishcakes with a rarebit topping. I asked for some Mayonnaise which was inspired as a ramekin of beautiful rich yellow homemade mayo arrived… Just the one Creme Brulee for Pud and an extra spoon (delivered without asking!) All the food was served with a smile, was delicious and demolished, if forced to pick a fault the soup was a bit average but otherwise I would recommend everything else we tried.
The Beer… to wash down the food we tried the Morrissey Fox Blonde and the Best Bitter, the Blonde is fantastic the Bitter was well… very bitter!
Great Food, Great service in a Great little pub.
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- Food & Beer Matching
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- Fish N’ Chips
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- Meet Steve the Brewer
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- Morrissey Fox Pumpkin
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- Ye Olde Punch Bowl Bar
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- Morrissey Fox Best Bitter
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- Galloway Steak and Ale Pie
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- Haddock Fishcakes
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- Aberdeen Angus Burger
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- Crab and Coriander Risotto
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- Blackpudding Bacon & Potato Terrine
Ye Olde Punch Bowl will feature on Channel 4 TVin “Neil Morrissey’s Risky Business” starting at 10pm on Tuesday the 28th October 2008, should be interesting and well worth a look. Daily Telegraph review of the show Neil Morrissey’s Risky Business.
PLEASE NOTE Ye Olde Punch Bowl has now CLOSED DOWN, October 2009
Filed under: Eating, Food, Yorkshire Dales Food | Tags: Beef, biker, burger, garlic, hairy, mayonnaise, oil, olive, onion, patty, rump, sea salt, Steak, ultimate
Or is that the greatest burger or even the ultimate burger, I can remember living in London in the early 90’s we all thought the best burgers were from Fulham! either from Vingt Quatre, 325 Fulham Road (looking at today’s website they don’t even serve burgers anymore!) or from the American Diner Ed’s and those wet fries were the best!
If you want to make your own burgers it’s not that big a deal, here are a couple of different recipes to try otherwise just order some proper burgers full of Yorkshire Beef and a bit of seasoning and nothing else from our website at www.paganum.co.uk
Hairy Bikers Ultimate Burger
Ingredients:-
500g minced rump steak,
4 shallots or small onions, finely chopped
1 tbsp chopped of Thyme
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 dash of Tabasco sauce
3 pinches Maldon flaked sea salt
1 egg, beaten
To serve:-
tomato relish
red onion, thinly sliced
white bun (from the local bakers)
mayonnaise (homemade if you can be bothered)
Method:-
1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Cover with cling film and pop in the fridge for 30 minutes.
2. Shape into patties, brush with olive oil and fry for 2-3 minutes on each side (for rare), or until cooked just the way you like.
3. Spread each side of the bun with mayonnaise. Add the burger to the bun, top with the sliced onion and tomato relish, and serve.
