The Blue Vinny Restaurant - Elham

Blue Vinny is acclaimed Kent restaurant is located in the village of Elham in the centre of the Elham Valley nestling in the beautiful Kent Downs between Canterbury and Folkestone just minutes from the Channel Tunnel entrance.

Originally the village bakery the Victorian building now has a stylish modern interior with colourful abstract works of art, polished tables, linen napkins and comfortable leather chairs.

The quality and supply of this local produce is superb, so they are able to use really fresh foods of the finest quality nearly all grown locally.

the restaurant has access to organic vegetables, chicken and lamb from ‘Jubilee Farm’ just two miles away and to ‘Forager’, an Elham Valley based wild food company, who supply mushrooms, fungi, hedgerow herbs and salads, seaweeds, wild flowers, fruit and nuts picked just hours before its on our plates. Beef and pork come from the rare breed producer ‘Huntsham Farm’ used by Heston Blumenthal - Fat Duck Bray and Michel Roux - Le Gavroche Restaurant, London. Fish is supplied by ‘Griggs’ in Hythe just 5 miles away, a Rick Stein ‘Food Hero’, all of it straight off the boats that pull up on to the beach outside their large shed.

Example of for three courses menu of £25:

Starters

• Oriental style fish cakes with sweet chilli sauce

• Braised field mushroom with apple, grilled pancetta and crisp black pudding

• Blue Vinny and broccoli soup with garlic crutons

• Green herb and pea risotto with basil oil

Main courses

• Hunters stew of local pheasant with brown cap mushrooms, winter herbs and crunch potatoes

• Grilled Pedigree Sussex beef rump steak with crunch potatoes, mixed leaf salad and a tarragon and shallot mayonnaise

• Crispy roast Barbary duck breast cooked pink with sweet ginger sauce, crunch potatoes and an oriental salad

• Pan fried filet of cod with a garlic cream and herb sauce, crunch potatoes and a wild rocket leaf and toasted pine nut salad

Fish dish will vary with the days catch as we order fresh each day.

Cheese
A selection of exceptional hand made cheeses including Dorset Blue Vinny, an unpasturised blue cows milk cheese, after which the restaurant is named.

Desserts

• Vanilla crème brûlée with strawberry sorbet

• Old English marmalade bread and butter pudding with custard sauce

• Dark chocolate almond pudding with ginger ice-cream

• Winter fruit compote with whipped cream

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