menus can be subject to change depending on suppliers and availability etc
We serve Sunday lunch 12-2, sample menu at the bottom of this page. We offer two or three roasts ( have a trio if you can't decide ) as well as fish and vegetarian options.
OUR MENUS including pizzas (and fish and chips from £5.95) are also available as TAKEAWAY during normal kitchen hours. Phone first 01308 862364. Have a free soft drink, half pint of beer or small glass of wine while you wait or bring a container if you want to take it with you.
TAKEAWAY ON DRAUGHT : Real ales £3.50/pint. Lagers £4/pint. Birra Moretti £5/pint . Bring your own container or we have 4pint ones at £2 and get 4for3
Lunch and dinner
STARTERS
STARTERS
Salt and Pepper Squid £7
with a sweet chilli dip
Tempura King Prawns £7.50
with a sweet chilli dip
Haloumi Fries £7
With a spicy tomato chutney
Chilli Humous £7
With vegetable batons and toastie fingers
Blanchebait £7.50
With a garlic dip
HOMEMADE 9" PIZZAS
Margherita £6
Chicken & Chorizo £8
Vegetarian £8
3 Cheese £8
Design your own pizza! If we’ve got it, you can have it on your pizza!
MAINS
Steak and Ale Pie £12
Served with seasonal vegetables, chips or new potatoes and lashings of gravy.
Palmers Beer Battered Fish £12 / £5.95
OR Haloumi £11 (v)
with chips and peas.
Fillet of Sea Bass £14 (gf)
Pan fried with lemon caper butter and served with a warm Mediterranean potato salad.
The Red Lion Tower Burger £13
Made with a 6oz patty, pulled pork, hash browns, tomato, Monterey Jack cheese, lettuce, onion rings, house sauce, chips and coleslaw.
Make Your Own Beef, Chicken or Veggie Burger £6
Add chips or bacon or cheese or coleslaw £1
Add onion rings or tomato 50p
Seafood OR Chicken/Chorizo Pasta £12
In a creamy white wine sauce
Vegetable Stir Fry £10 (v)
With fresh seasonal vegetables and noodles.
Add £5 for a generous fillet of honey glazed Scottish salmon, £3 for prawns, £2 for chicken OR chorizo
Macaroni Cheese £10 (v)
With sun dried tomatoes. Add pancetta for £2
Cajun Chicken £12 (gf)
With freshly made ratatouille, chips or new potatoes
Seafood Platter £14
Salt & pepper squid, battered cod, tempura prawns, garlic prawns, blanchebait, chips and dips.
Steak of the Day POA (gf option)
See the specials board
CHEF’S SUPER SCRUMMY SPECIAL SALADS (gf option)
Chicken. Prawn. Salmon. Steak. £13
Haloumi £12
Made with fresh organic leaves and stuff
SIDES
Chips £4. Cheesy chips £5. Side salad £4
Garlic bread £3. Add cheese £1
Smaller appetites, allergies
We serve most dishes half portions for half price.
We can adapt some dishes to suit allergies - please tell us before ordering.
LUNCHTIME LIGHT BITES
NACHOS £5
Topped with melted cheese served with cool salsa sauce, soured cream, guacamole ADD £2 FOR PULLED PORK
SANDWICHES £7 add chips for £1
Sausage and caramelised onion
Somerset Brie with cranberry (add bacon £1)
Bacon lettuce tomato
Cheese (Brie or Cheddar) chutney and lettuce
Tuna sweetcorn mayo
Ham, cheese and organic leaves
3 EGG OMLETTES with chips £8
You name it, if we have it, we will put it in! Just to give you some ideas: tomato, cheese, onion, red pepper, mushroom, spinach….
TAPAS – choose 4 for £10
Salt and pepper squid
Garlic chilli prawns
Tempura prawns
A Beaminster banger with chorizo, tomato and paprika
Garlic mushrooms
Blanchebait
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Ham, free range egg and chips £5.95
Fish and chips with peas £5.95
Penne and pesto £7 (add chorizo or mushroom for £1)
JACKET POTATOES ALL £7
Coronation chicken
Chicken, chorizo, tomato, paprika
Chicken, chorizo in creamy wine sauce
Tuna cheese melt
Cheddar cheese and baked beans (add ham £1)
Creamy mushrooms
SPECIALS MAY BE AVAILABLE – JUST ASK!
LUNCHTIME SPECIALS
Fish and chips
Ham, egg and chips
£5.95
PUDDINGS
£7
BROWNIE AND CARAMEL SAUCE SUNDAE
CHOCOLATE BROWNIE with New Forest ice cream (gf)
STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING with ice cream or custard
KNICKERBOCKER GLORY: probably the best in the world!!
FRUIT SALAD with ice cream, double cream or squirty cream!
ALUM BAY CHEESECAKE
Three scoops of NEW FOREST ICE CREAM, vanilla, chocolate, salted caramel, strawberry
Seize the moment: remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart. ERMA BOMBECK
SUNDAY LUNCH 12 - 2
This is a sample menu, there are weekly changes. We offer two or three roasts as well as fish and vegetarian options
STARTERS
Salt and Pepper Squid £7.00
with a sweet chilli dip
Shell on Tiger Prawns £7.50 (gf)
with bread, chilli and garlic butter
Whitebait £7.00
with a garlic mayonnaise
Paprika chicken £7.50
Mixed with chorizo and tomatoes
MAINS
Roast beef, chicken, lamb or nut roast £13.00 (can't decide? have a trio )
Served with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, rainbow carrots, broccoli, cheesy leeks, stuffing and lashings of gravy
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Palmers beer battered fish £12.00
and chips, minted pea puree and tartare sauce
Seafood linguine £12.00
Honey Glazed Salmon £14.00 (gf option)
Served with salad or on a bed of stir fried egg noodles, chilli, ginger, garlic, spring onion, soy sauce, hoi sin and sesame seeds
Grilled haloumi OR tofu (v) (gf) £11.00
Pan fried in sesame oil on a bed of crispy salad leaves, roast red pepper, balsamic glazed tomato with red onion, radish (and optional ciabatta croutons.)
Tomato and herb quiche £10.00
Served with an organic green salad
Beef or chicken in a baguette £7.00
With horseradish or cranberry, stuffing and gravy
Vegetarian pie £12.00 (v)
Made with butternut squash and goat’s cheese and served with greens, gravy and mash
Drinks at THE RED LION – a Palmers pub so we have draught ales, lagers and Sheppey's cider as well as a carefully chosen wine list, wide choice of gins and other spirits.
FANCY A STROLL?? There are some wonderful walks from here – WE HAVE MAPS.
Tilda will try and tell you she hasn’t been fed for three days. She has! Please don’t feed her; it encourages her to beg and it’s not good for her waistline!
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Smaller appetites, allergies, children
We can serve most dishes half portions half price.
We can adapt some dishes to suit allergies - please tell us before ordering.
.... and no, we do not have chicken nuggets!