Festive Season
Get In The Festive Spirit At The Queens Arms
Join us to celebrate the festive season, from pre-Christmas parties through to celebrating New Year in style
Looking for an original gift to give? Our vouchers make ideal presents and are valid for one year. The can be used for rooms, food or drink.
You can purchase for any amount from £20 upwards and personalise your voucher You can choose from one of our hand drawn, hand written personalised vouchers (please contact us directly) or Purchase electronically, the vouchers can be sent by royal mail or electronically, click on the link below to find out more or to purchase.
Celebrate the season with a Christmas party, whether it is lunch or dinner. Enjoy a menu that celebrates the best of British produce and is all made by scratch in house, we don’t cut any corners. This isn’t your usual Christmas Menu this is the Queen’s Arms Christmas Menu.
We can take bookings from 2 up to 28 guests. Email us or call us on info@theqeeensarms.com/01963220317 to discuss your requirements
STARTERS
Jerusalem artichoke soup artichoke crisps, roasted hazelnuts and sage
Smoked salmon rillettes cucumber and fennel salad, seaweed salad cream
Roast chicken and leek terrine, pickled walnut, tarragon emulsion, watercress, toasted truffle milk bread
MAINS
Roasted turkey ballotine stuffed with apricot, pistachio and sausage, pigs in blankets, beef dripping roast potatoes and red wine gravy. With all the trimmings
Cornish skate, caramelised celeriac, sauté hispi cabbage, green peppercorn sauce
Roasted onion squash, herb gnocchi, hen of the wood mushrooms, squash velouté, Old Winchester crisps
DESSERTS
Queens Christmas pudding, brandy creme anglaise, clotted creme ice cream
Ginger and egg nogg baked Alaska, cinnamon caramel sauce
Barkham blue with rosemary crackers, apple, celery and spiced tomato chutney
Join us in celebrating the New Year in style at The Queen's Arms.
With a special tasting menu created by our kitchen for the occasion, the night will be full of joy, feasting and delight. At midnight we will celebrate with fireworks and complimentary glass of fizz.
Please contact us to book your place. info@thequeensarms.com
Over the Christmas period the kitchen will be serving a lighter a la carte menu and our pub classics. We will be extending our lunch hours on Boxing Day, come and warm up by the fire and enjoy time with friends and family.
We will be open 12-3pm for lunch and 6-9pm for dinner unless otherwise indicated
Opening times can be found below, please note we are closed on Christmas Day to allow our staff to spend time with their families.
OPENING TIMES OVER FESTIVE PERIOD
21st-23rd December Normal restaurant menu and opening times
24th December- Classic Pub Menu 12-3pm. Light bites until 8pm bar closes 9pm
25th December - Christmas Day Closed
26th December - Classic Pub Menu food 12-4pm and 6-9 pm. Bar nibbles 3-6 (booking recommended)
27th-30th December - Classic pub menu (normal opening hours)
31st December - 12-3pm
New Year’s Eve Dinner 6pm onwards £90 per head reservation required
1st January - 12-3pm and 6-8pm (booking recommended)
2nd- 3rd - 12-3pm & 6-9pm
4 January - Sunday Roast 12-3pm & 6-9pm
5 January - Queen’s Arms Menu returns.
CHRISTMAS SET MENU
2 COURSE £35 3 COURSE £45
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Jerusalem artichoke soup, artichoke crisps, roasted hazelnuts and sage
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Smoked salmon rillettes
With cucumber and fennel salad, seaweed salad cream, rye toasts
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Roast chicken and leek terrine
With pickled walnut, tarragon emulsion, watercress, toasted truffle milk bread
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Roasted turkey ballotine
With stuffed with apricot, pistachio and sausage, pigs in blankets, beef dripping roast potatoes and red wine gravy.
Serve with honey and cumin roasted carrots and parsnips, cider braised red cabbage, roasted sprouts with bacon and chestnuts, Longmans cauliflower cheese.
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Cornish skate
With caramelised celeriac, sauté hispi cabbage, green peppercorn sauce
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Roasted onion squash
With herb gnocchi, hen of the wood mushrooms, squash velouté, Old Winchester crisps
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Queens Christmas pudding, brandy creme anglaise, clotted creme ice cream
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Ginger and egg nogg baked Alaska, cinnamon caramel sauce
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Barkham blue
Barkham blue with rosemary crackers, apple, celery and spiced tomato chutney
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Harissa and sesame fried mozzarella£7
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Salt and pepper whitebait, lemon and caper mayonnaise
GF
£6 -
Honey and mustard glazed pigs in blankets£7
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Celeriac soup with apple and hazelnut salsa
With crispy sage, seeded bun and salted butter
£9 -
Mushroom parfait, pickled shemiji mushrooms
With tarragon emulsion, toasted sourdough
£10 -
Smoked salmon rillettes, pickled cucumber and fennel salad
With seaweed salad cream, rye toasts
£11 -
Roasted chicken and leek terrine
With pickled walnut ketchup, watercress, toasted truffle milk bread
£11
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Aged beef burger, smoked bacon, pickled cucumbers
, chipotle ketchup, raclette, potato bun, fries
£20 -
Black pepper sausages, Koffman’s mashed potato
, kale, mustard onions, thyme and cider gravy
£18 -
Cider and tarragon battered haddock and chips
GF
, gardens peas, tartare sauce, lemon
£21 -
Chicken, leek and tarragon pie
, Koffman’s mashed potato, carrots, winter greens, red wine gravy
£20
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Grilled pork chop, hispi cabbage
, baked apple ketchup, grilled spring onions, crackling
£25 -
Baked whole lemon sole
, Nduja and brown shrimp butter, charred broccoli, celeriac, burnt lemon
£25 -
Spinach and chestnut mushroom risotto
, poached egg, cheese crisps, spring onion oil
£20 -
Dry aged sirloin steak, grilled king prawns
, café de paris butter, truffle and parmesan fries
£32
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Lemon and herb buttered new potatoes
GF
£6 -
Chilli and garlic fried greens
GF DF VE
£5 -
Watercress, apple, mint and walnut salad
GF DF VE
£5 -
Salt and pepper fries
GF DF VE
£5
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Chocolate and orange burnt Basque cheesecake, stem ginger gelato
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Sticky toffee and pecan pudding, salted toffee sauce, rum and raisin gelato
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Apple tarte tatin, Madagascan vanilla ice cream
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Affogato
GF
Slowly churned West Country milk with an Italian style. Made locally in Sherborne.
3 per scoop
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Gelato: Vanilla, chocolate, salted caramel
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Sorbet: Morello cherry, pear
A selection of English cheese with rosemary crackers, apple, celery, spiced tomato chutney, quince membrillo.
EACH 7/ALL 15
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Rollright
A soft washed rind cheese from King Stone dairy, Gloucestershire. Rich, buttery and gently funky from its spruce wrapped bark.
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Wyfe of Bath
A semi hard organic cheese from Somerset. Aged for around 4 months, its nutty, sweet and earthy.
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Dorset Blue Vinny
Made by following a 300-year-old recipe, it has the appearance of an English stilton. Its produced in Sturminster Newton with semi skimmed milk from their own Friesian cows. Creamy with a subtle tangy blue flavour.
NEW YEARS EVE TASTING MENU £90 PER PERSON
VEGETERIAN MENU AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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House made cheddar soda bread, charred spring onion butter
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Wild mushroom parfait
With pickled shemiji mushrooms, tarragon emulsion, toasted sourdough
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Cornish scallops, sauté hispi cabbage, celeriac and lovage sauce
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Dry aged beef fillet, tempura broccoli, roasted onions
With sticky braised cheek, crispy blue cheese, bordelaise sauce
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54% dark chocolate and coffee marquise
With candied hazelnuts, salted caramel gelato
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To finish a glass of bubbles and fireworks at midnight
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