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Please join us to celebrate Easter Day with our special menu below:

Starters

Homemade cream of mushroom soup with chive oil & fresh bread

Home cured duck salad with a damson compote

Thai style fish cakes with sweet chilli sauce

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Main Courses

Roast leg of English lamb served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, Yorkshire pudding and mint sauce

Steamed rainbow trout, fennel salad, new potatoes, dill and white wine sauce

Puff pastry parcel with mustard leeks, spinach and goats cheese served with herb salad and new potatoes

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Desserts

Warm chocolate brownie, hot chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream

Bread & butter pudding with custard

Champagne rhubarb Eton Mess


2 courses £16.95, 3 courses £19.95

Please join us to celebrate Mother’s Day with our special menu below. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Starters

Cream of watercress soup served with crème fraiche

Pork, apricot & pistachio terrine, rocket & orange salad, plum sauce

Prawn & crayfish cocktail with marie rose sauce, baby leaves, bread & butter

Roast beetroot & goats cheese salad with pine nuts and balsamic dressing

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Main Courses

Roast sirloin of British beef with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables,
Yorkshire pudding & homemade gravy

Herb crusted salmon fillet with purple sprouting broccoli, jersey royal potatoes, sorrel sauce

Chicken breast wrapped in streaky bacon, mushroom & wild garlic cream,
roast potatoes & seasonal vegetables

Tomato, goats cheese & pesto parcel, red onion & rocket salad, jersey royal potatoes

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Desserts

Champagne rhubarb crumble with vanilla custard

Chocolate brownie, hot chocolate sauce, vanilla ice cream

Homemade passion fruit profiteroles, chocolate sauce

Selection of ice creams


3 courses £25.00 (including tea & coffee)

CHRISTMAS PARTY MENU - We are now taking bookings for Christmas parties, so please call us to make your reservation!

Starters

Roasted butternut squash & chestnut soup

Pork, apricot & pistachio terrine with homemade chutney

Smoked salmon parcel filled with Cromer crab meat, rocket salad

Artichoke & roast beetroot tart with goats cheese

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Main Courses

Roast Norfolk turkey breast, sage & onion stuffing, chipolatas wrapped in bacon, roast parsnips and cranberry sauce

Slow cooked lamb shank, spiced parsnip puree and redcurrant jus

Root vegetable wellington with buttered spinach and Applewood cheddar sauce

Baked salmon fillet with herb crust, roast beetroot and horseradish cream

All main courses served with a selection of seasonal vegetables & roast potatoes

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Desserts

Traditional Christmas pudding with brandy sauce

Honey crème brulee with shortbread biscuit

Warm chocolate Yule log with chocolate sauce & vanilla ice cream

Homemade sherry trifle

Selection of cheese & biscuits (£3.50 supplement)

2 courses £20.00 per person
3 courses £25.00 per person

Please call us on 01763 838792 or speak to a member of staff to make your booking

On Thursday 19th November 2009, The Red Cow will be celebrating the release of this year’s vintage Beaujolais Nouveau and have put together a French themed 3 course dinner to mark the event. The price of the dinner also includes half a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau:

Moules Mariniere
Fresh mussels in white wine, cream and parsley
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Coq au vin
Free range chicken in red wine, lardons and mushrooms
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Crème brulee
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£22.00 including ½ bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau

Dinner served at 8pm

Book now to enjoy our special 4 course set Thai dinner at £19.95 per person on Thursday 2nd July:

Tom yum soup

Thai fishcakes with sweet chilli sauce

Thai chicken green curry fragrant jasmine rice

Banana fritters with toffee sauce and ice cream

We are delighted to announce that The Red Cow has earned a place in the 2009 Michelin Red Guide. This is viewed as the most prestigious dining guide in the UK and we are thrilled to have been recognised.

We are now taking bookings for Easter Sunday. Please see our menu below for what’s on offer:

Starters

Homemade soup of the day served with crusty bread

Smoked mackerel pate with a celeriac & pear remoulade

Ham hock terrine with homemade piccalilli

Marinated beetroot & goats cheese salad with a spicy tomato dressing

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Main Courses

¼ free range roast chicken served with roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables,
bread sauce & gravy

Whole grilled plaice served with a samphire, tomato & potato salad

Beef shin stew with thyme dumplings, mashed potato & curly kale

Lemon thyme risotto with roasted Mediterranean vegetables

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Desserts

Fruit crumble with custard

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream

Eton Mess

Chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream


2 courses £19.00, 3 courses £24.00

Please join us to celebrate Mother’s Day with our special menu below. Book early to avoid disappointment!

Starters

Homemade soup of the day served with crusty bread

Smoked pigeon salad with rocket leaves & raspberry dressing

Prawn & crayfish cocktail with marie rose sauce, brown bread & butter

Marinated beetroot & goats cheese salad with a spicy tomato dressing

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Main Courses

Roast loin of pork with honey roast parsnips, roast potatoes & seasonal vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, crackling, cider gravy & apple sauce

Smoked haddock, salmon & prawn fishcakes with lemon mayonnaise and a rocket & parmesan salad

Homemade chicken kiev with buttered new potatoes & seasonal vegetables

Tomato, spinach & ricotta cannelloni topped with a cheese & herb sauce served with a green salad

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Desserts

Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream

Warm chocolate fondant

Fruit crumble with vanilla ice cream

Cheesecake


2 courses £19.00, 3 courses £24.00

On the 20th November The Red Cow will be celebrating the release of this year’s vintage Beaujolais Nouveau and have put together a French themed 3 course dinner to mark the event. The price of the dinner also includes half a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau:

French onion soup with gruyere croutons
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Beef bourguignon served with lyonnaise potatoes
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Crème brulee
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Selection of French cheeses (£3.50 supplement)

£22.95 including ½ bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau

Dinner served at 8pm

The Red Cow in Chrishall has been reviewed on the popular Local Secrets website. Read the full review below:

Don’t arrive late at the Red Cow in Chrishall for Sunday lunch or you’ll discover what popularity really means! Why had so many people made the decision to visit the Red Cow? Among other reasons, charming hospitality makes one feel instantly at home in the lovely old building, which is full of beams and divided into a loosely table-and-chaired casual drinking and eating area and a more traditional restaurant. The pub is deceptively large and seemingly contented diners kept appearing from nowhere as we enjoyed our midday repast.

Affable landlords the Cozens warmly welcomed us to their pub amidst the lunchtime rush and then proceeded to let us know what our options were at this late hour. Service doesn’t come much better than this.

A thatched inn in Chrisall in North Essex, about half way between Royston and Saffron Walden, The Red Cow is every inch the scenic village pub. On a rainy December day when we visited, its low ceilings and open fire proved enticing whilst from previous visits in the summer (under previous ownership) pints in the sunshine by such a gorgeous old building made for salad days. If anything this can only get better as the car park has now been extended and the front of the pub is now full of picnic tables. Bring on June!

Two pints of the deeply quaffable beer were procured before the meal proper arrived. Commencing with potato and leek soup and game pate, the starters gave a fair indication of what was to follow: good food with the occasional quirk. Whilst the soup proved delicious, absolutely ideal for the weather plus it was seasoned exactly right, the pate came in a gargantuan slab rounded with pancetta served up with a paucity of bread. Ideal for pate fanatics or ravenous carnivores out for offal, less so for the rest of us.

Mains consisted of a posh spin on the traditional roast chicken - poisson with succulent roast potatoes and the best vegetables we’d had in a while. Delicately crunchy brussel sprouts, baby carrots and red cabbage with chunks of apricot came with the meal. Delicious! Our other main was a little more adventurous and unfortunately it didn’t quite pay off. A mushroom and truffle risotto with lush flakes of parmesan proved a departure too far off the beaten track from the Sunday lunch standards, proving as soggy as the weather. But it’s to be commended that a place like this was offering it. Dessert followed- lemon posset, doused in rasberry sauce and served with ginger biscuits. No complaints here save the murmuring of sated stomachs.

The Red Cow is a cut above the average village local, perfectly balancing upon that tightrope between going all out for the dining crowd and attracting the locals. Add it to your list of places of to visit.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Red Cow website! The site is current being contructed, and we’ll be adding more content to it over the coming months. Please check back soon for further updates. If you’d like to send feedback regarding the website, drop us a line on the Contact Us page.