It is currently, he says, a concise menu. But actually I found it ample. A set menu and a la carte options fit neatly onto a page (who needs more than that?) and, to the delight of my non-meat-eating friend Rachel, when we enquired about veggie options, a separate, and quite inventive, we thought, vegetarian menu was presented.
Before we got stuck in to the food proper there were hunks of award-winning Pump Street sourdough with a soft quenelle of sage butter for smearing.
Crispy Blythburgh pork belly salad
- Credit: Charlotte Smith-Jarvis
I opted to begin with the crispy Blythburgh pork belly with chicory, radish and pumpkin seed granola. It was, if you like, an anti-nourish bowl. What I mean by that is, instead of slices of avocado over the salad leaves (a la Insta trends) it was garnished with cubes of crisp-edge, soft-cantered pork. You could tell the meat was high quality. It was rich with flavour and seasoned well. However, the granola was missing when it arrived whi