The Waiting Room

This is our Spring Menu for 2008, we've had it on for a couple of weeks now (sorry for not getting it out to you sooner, things have been a little hectic - in a good way - and it's not that we didn't want to encourage you to make the restaurant even fuller but finding the time for these things when there are hungry mouths to feed can be quite a stretch you know).

Anyway - the dishes are being well received despite having a lot to live up to, as our last two menus have been exceptional. This one is steady away with rustic loveliness, some old favourites with a few tasty new creations to suit the weather. It will run until the end of June or there abouts.

Here you go:

Soup of the day £4.25 WF (Carol made a sublime Honey Roast Parsnip and Cider Soup this week)
Hummus and Olives and Hot Bread £4.95 V/WF
Smoked Garlic and Roast Red Onion Pate £4.75 WF
Roast Butternut Squash & Stilton Pate £4.95 WF
Trio of Pates (above) £6.25 WF
Antipasti of Roast Red Pepper, Feta, Olives, Garlic Mushroom
and Marinated Artichoke Heart £6.50/individual appetiser £2.95 V/WF
Baked Field Mushroom with Brie and Caramelised Red Onion £5.50 WF
Thai Noodle Salad £4.95 V

Asparagus & Applewood Cheese Roulade £10.95
With sun dried tomato & beetroot tapenade, and sesame potatoes

Spinach, Petit Pois and Three Cheese Pancakes £10.25
With radish & mixed leaf salad and sesame potatoes

Lemon, Chick Pea Tagine £9.95 V/WF
With spiced quinoa

Feta, Spring Onion and Cashew Plait £11.95
With a tarragon tomato sauce and creamed celeriac

Spicy Puy Lentil, Macaroni Cheese Bake £9.95
With sesame potatoes

Spinach, Red Pepper and Ricotta Lasagne £10.50
With house salad and sesame potatoes

Thai Green Curry £10.50 V/WF
Served with lime & coriander rice

Montezuma’s Organic Chocolate, Mixed Bean Chilli £10.95 V/WF
Served with basmati rice, sour cream and Jalapeños

V Indicates that the dish is, or can be easily made as a Vegan alternative,
WF Indicates that the dish is or can be easily made a Wheat Free Alternative

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Plus Daily Homemade Puddings
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We’ve also updated our organic wine list, which now includes more fantastic Fair Trade wines especially from Argentina and South Africa.
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We’ve won another Observer Food Award! This year we featured in the Best Restaurant category, as in all restaurants not just vegetarian gaffs, which we were really pleased about. (Last year we were 'best Veggie in the North East').

Thank you to everybody who voted for us - (These are reader's annual awards for The Observer Food Monthly Magazine), and according to these readers The Waiting Room is one of the top 7 restaurants in the North, and amongst the top 40 in the UK! Who would have thought it? It's a huge credit to our fantastic staff; Prud, Carol, Anna, Beccy, Tilly, Ben, Sarah, Josie, Jemma, Micky, Coco, Matthew, Zoe, and Laura, and Amy, and thanks also to our lovely customers who help to create such a great atmosphere. There, I've said it.

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And after running our Sunday events from week to week for a while, we have at last started to put a good looking forthcoming programme together, starting this week (Sunday 13th) with a band from Chicago called Rue Royale, + support acts. From 7pm, cover charge £5. Our forthcoming events can be seen here.