Christmas at Drusilla's
Over 200 years old, thatched with real fires in inglenook fire places - Drusilla's is the ideal setting for your Christmas and New Year's celebrations.
Details of our Christmas menus for 2010 can now be seen below, please contact us if you would like us to send you a Christmas brochure (available from mid September).
Please note in addition to the menus below the a la carte menu, specials board and bar snacks menu will be available as usual from the 1st - 24th December.
Our function room seats upto 70, there is no hire charge if you are eating with us but a minimum of 40 people is needed to ensure exclusive use of the room. A £5 per person deposit will be require to secure bookings.
Christmas Set/ Function Menu
2 courses £13, 3 courses £15
(available from the 1st - 23rd December)
10% discount - 1st to 7th December
Spicy Parsnip Soup
Chicken Pate
Served with tossed winter leaves and an ale chutney
Classic Oak Smoked Salmon
Finished with a prawn and lemon dressing
Pearls of Chilled Melon
Tossed in a ginger and orange dressing
Roast Dorset Turkey
With all the traditional trimmings
Seared Fillet of Salmon
Coated with a chive butter sauce
Vegetable and Chesnut Mushroom Crumble
With a vegetable suet topping
Loin of Pork
With a Calvados and Mustard Cream
All Served with mélange of vegetables & potatoes
Served with a mince pie and brandy cream sauce
Chocolate Cheesecake
Served with a Raspberry Puree
Fresh Fruit Salad
Served with a Winter Berry Sorbet
Pecan Tart
Served with Vanilla Pod Ice cream drizzled with Cinnamon
Christmas Day Menu
6 COURSES for £65 per person, £20 for children up to 12 years
Champagne & Roast chestnuts, Pretzels & Olives
Duck Parfait
On a confit of wild mushroom & onion marmalade
Tiger Prawn Salad
With a dill & lime mayonnaise
Advocado, Quails Egg and Blue Vinney Salad
Tossed in a honey and course-grain mustard dressing
Green Pea Soup
Drizzled with a truffle cream
All served with a selection of local breads
With all the traditional trimmings
Carved Rib of Dorset Beef
Served with freshly grated horseradish and a Yorkshire Pudding
Drusilla’s Fish Pie
Finished with scallops and prawns
Wild Mushroom & Vegetable Strudel
All Served with mélange of vegetables & potatoes
Drusilla's Christmas Pudding
Served with a mince pie and brandy cream sauce
Chocolate and Mascopone Mousse
Laced with Cointreau
Winter Fruit Salad
Topped with Chantilly Cream and a crushed Hazelnut meringue
Cheese Platter and Port
Selection of Local Cheeses served with fresh fruit and chutney
Fresh filter coffee and handmade chocolates
NEW YEAR'S EVE BUFFET £39 per head
HORS'DOURES TABLE
Smoked Salmon & Prawn platter
Parma Ham, Salami & Figs
Pasta Salad
Tomato & Basil Salad
Cous Cous Salad
Freshly Baked Breads
Roast Tomato and Basil Soup
HOT BUFFET
Pot-Roast Brisket of Beef
Venison Casserole with Dumplings
Roasted Vegetable Crumble
Salmon Encroute
All served with a Melange of Vegetables & Potatoes
Winterberry Crumble
Croquen-Bouche
Exotic fruit salad
Marble of Local Cheeses
With a fruit chutney & wheat biscuits
*all subject to change without notice