The Barn Restaurant, Rainham

The Barn Restaurant, Rainham

A pleasant well appointed restaurant in Lower Road, Rainham. The building is an attractive 17c detached property. Beautiful interior. Standards of presentation are high, service and ambience good.

Food is largely traditional English with a few continental twists to give meals a modern context. Expect to pay £25 for two courses (per person), not including drinks. Likely to provide a memorable dining experience.

 Sample Lunch & Dinner Menu (taken from the Barn Restaurant's website)

To start £8.95:

• Brioche crusted goat cheese set on a red onion puree with a fig jam
• Baby venison wellington set on creamed spinach with a mulled wine jus
• Seared scallops set on curried mussel risotto with cucumber and ginger
• Baked portabello mushroom with a poached duck egg set on a shallot tart with a red pepper and butternut squash veloute
• Pheasant, apricot and tarragon sausage set on parsnip puree with a pheasant scented jus
• Saute of king prawns with a crab, tomato and dill gnocchi and an avocado citrus mascarpone
• Corn fed chicken and wild mushroom steamed suet pudding with a white onion and tarragon veloute

The middle £19.50

• Maple and black peppered breast of goose with roast chestnuts, pancetta infused potatoes and a blood orange jus
• Hursell Farm confit belly of pork with a rabbit, pork and shallot roulade and bathed in a Kent apple cider cream
• Seared black bream set on a serrano ham infused potato rosti with creamed leeks and a smoked red wine jus
• British fillet of beef simply finished with hand cut fat chips, a shallot puree, balsamic infused tomatoes and a watercress salad
• Navarin of local lamb with cepe mushroom and leek dumplings and a rosemary scented lamb jus
• Local partridge with a haggis and game parcel and set on creamy neeps and tatties with a whisky scented jus
• Cornish John Dory set on creamy saffron infused mash with a saute of king prawns and a red pepper and vine tomato juices
• Saddle of venison with black pudding mash set on black pudding mash with thyme glazed red plums and a tawny port jus

The follow £7.95

• Baked lemon meringue alaska with a warm blueberry compote
• Warm sticky toffee pudding bathed in pecan butterscotch cream with an iced vanilla pod parfait
• Honey, russett apple and almond strudel with a mulled red plum ice cream
• Chocolate and kahula tart simply finished with pistachio ice cream
• Orange scented panettone and raspberry trifle with english cream and home made shortbread
• Plate of cheese with a home made fruit chutney

The restaurant can accommodate well over 150 covers so large groups can be catered for (always book in advance where possible). Take away service also available.

You'll find The Barn Restaurant at:

507 Lower Rainham Road
Rainham
Kent
ME8 7TN

Telephone number: 01634 361363

More information on the website: www.thebarnrestaurant.co.uk

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