Balcary Bay Hotel
offers an award winning cuisine, based on local
Scottish fare with a classic
French influence. There is a bistro style
lunch menu available seven days a week and
Sunday lunch offers a three course meal in
our restaurant. For dinner you may choose from the four course dinner plus coffee which changes each evening and for Non Residents they may choose from 2 courses at £26.00 up to the 4 courses plus coffee at £37.50
In 2004 the hotel was awarded two AA red
rosettes for food, Le Routier Scottish hotel
of the year, Also winners in Johansens coastal
hotel of the year 2007.
Sample Dinner Menu For 2010
Starters
Ham hock and mustard pressed terrine served with spicy pear chutney and micro herbs
Seared calves liver with mustard mash, pancetta and shallot sauce
Panache of fish, salmon, smoked haddock, halibut set on a light curry sauce
Tian of artichoke, tomato and feta cheese with basil and tomato dressing
A tower of cured salmon, baby capers and dill with crème fraiche and caviar
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Celeriac & kale soup
or
Orange sorbet
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Meat
Main Courses
Breast of Scottish chicken with spring onion mash, tower of Provencal vegetables and cep cream
Breast of Gressingham duck with fondant potato, ragout of vegetables and tarragon sauce
Fillet of local beef with slow cooked turnip, buttered kale and served with a lentil and vegetables sauce
Grilled fillet of sea bass with brandade, cauliflower puree, scallops and antibioses sauce
A strudel of tomato, mozzarella and cous cous with a parmesan cream
All
red meats will be served pink unless
otherwise requested
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Desserts
Assiette of pear with mousse, sorbet and puff pastry with caramel and red wine sauces
Hot chocolate pithivier with caramel ice-cream and orange sauce
Iced apple parfait with honeycomb crust and caramelized apple
Crème brulee with Balcary Bay shortbread
or
A selection of Scottish cheeses with Balcary Bay chutney, apple, grapes and biscuits from the following;
Mull of Kintyre – extra mature Scottish cheddar made from cow’s milk and produced in Campbeltown
Dunsyre Blue – blue veined hard cheese made from cow’s milk in Lanarkshire
Clava- soft organic brie made from cow’s milk in Milton of Connage/Inverness
Black Crowdie/Gruth Dhu – creamy cow’s milk rolled in pinhead oatmeal and black pepper made in Tain
Cairnsmore – hard mature white unpasteurised
ewe’s milk cheese made locally
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Freshly Ground Coffee and
Hand Made Petit Fours
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We have a very extensive
wine list with a wide choice of 100
wines and champagne from New World,
Chilean, Lebanese, American and not
forgetting French, German and Spanish
wines.