The Tasting Café is open all day serving breakfast, lunch & afternoon tea. There are two lunch menus, one which is available all day serving classic LA FROMAGERIE fare, from snails, to rillettes to the perfect cheese plate. The second menu is a daily changing Kitchen Menu which is various seasonal salads, soups and stews.
All dishes are available to take-away.
This menu is available all day
LA FROMAGERIE Cheese Plate
A plate of five perfectly ripe cheeses selected from the cheese room each day, served with bread and farmhouse butter.
The Cheese Plate (example)
Fleur de Chevre(goat), Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage (cow), Vacherin du Mont d’Or (cow), Ami du Chambertin(cow) , Fourme d’Ambert (cow)
Unless otherwise stated cheeses are made with unpasteurised milk. This selection will partner our house red wine Le Roc from Fronton perfectly.
The Charcuterie Plate
Selection of cured meats from Italy, France & Spain with cornichons, mostarda & crusty bread
Carpaccio of Malenca Beef with rocket, truffle oil & Pecorino shavings
Goose Rillettes with Cornichons & toasted bread
L'Escargot Anglais snails from Hereford cooked in garlic butter (6)
Baked Vacherin du Mont d'Or with crusty bread & cornichons (for 2)
Home made terrine with LA FROMAGERIE chutney
Seasonal game terrine served with chutney & toasted Hoxton Pagnotta
Soused herrings served with rye bread & green salad
LA FROMAGERIE 'Ploughmans'
'Ginger Pig' Pork & Veal Pie with Montgomery Cheddar & pickles
LA FROMAGERIE Kitchen Menu
The Kitchen Menu is ready from 12.30pm
A daily changing menu using regional & seasonal produce, all subject to market availability.
Kitchen Menu (example)
‘Fish Plate’ served with toasted Pagnotta & salad leaves.
Smoked mackerel paté, smoked trout paté, home-cured Gravadlax & salmon terrine.
‘Anti-Pasti’ Plate served with toasted Pagnotta & salad leaves.
Terrine of Irish organic salmon wrapped in organic smoked salmon, served with toasted Pagnotta, salad leaves & caperberries.
Soused herring served with crème fraîche & toasted Pagnotta.
Home-cured Salt Beef served hot with homemade pickled red cabbage, homemade pickled cucumber, rye bread & English mustard.
Parmigiana di Melenzane of violet aubergine, Provola di Bufala Affumicate & Pecorino Foggiano
Salad of Castelluccio lentils, roast fennel, violet aubergine & slow roast Italian tomatoes with mint, & chilli
Salad of roast pheasant with roast pumpkin, Savoy cabbage, chestnuts & crisp Pancetta
Salad of slow roast fennel with lemon & basil served on Pagnotta toasts
Savoury tart of leek, smoked pancetta & Fribourg d'Estive
Please note that ‘mixed’ or sharing plates are priced according to the highest priced salad on the plate.
At peak times there is a minimum charge of £10 per person (12.30pm).
