Food
We enjoy serving fine modern British food, with European and world influences. We use local suppliers whenever we can, especially for the best local and seasonal produce, and meat, bread, and fish (if you can count ‘Dorset’ as local -we moved from Lyme Regis to The Cross Keys).
Mike, our licensee and chef, has worked with many top chefs, including Mark Hix, and Michael Caines. He worked at The Ivy in London, Gidleigh Park in Devon, amongst others, and set up the Oyster and Fish House at Lyme Regis for Mark Hix, before deciding to do exactly what he wanted, here, at The Cross Keys.
Elena, at front of house, has worked with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at River Cottage, at The Canteen, in Axminster, and other fine restaurants, meeting Mike at the Hix Oyster and Fish House in Lyme.
Together we aim to give you that ’slice of heaven’, by offering you the finest food in cosy country pub surroundings.
Enjoy yourselves and let us know how we can be even better.
A sample menu:-
Hobbs House Bread £2 Mixed olives £2 Sweet ‘n’ Spicy nuts £1.50
Starters
Autumn squash & lemon thyme soup £4.50
Duck liver pate, tomato chutney, toasted Hobbs House bread £5.50
Cross Keys house cured organic Scottish salmon £6.50
Bang Bang chicken salad, smoked chicken, spicy peanut dressing £7/13
Pan seared Lyme Bay scallops, Dorset Rape seed oil, garden nettle & basil pesto £8/16
Mixed autumn beetroot, pickled walnuts, Dorset Blue Vinney cheese salad £6.50/11
Potted crab, hand picked Dorset brown crab, slightly spiced, toast £7.50
Cross Keys fish pie, salmon, scallop, pollock, whiting, in a saffron and leek sauce £12.50
10oz Somerset, Hereford ribeye steak, cider battered onion rings, hand cut chips £17.50
West Country beef flank & ale stew, chestnut mushrooms, black pudding, mash £14.50
Grilled Lyme Regis herring, warm slow roast tomatoes, lemon & mustard dressing £10.50
Wiltshire roast partridge, beetroot, maris peer potatoes, garden elderberry jus £16
6X battered pollack, minted mushy peas, hand cut chips £12
Jon Thorners Old English pork sausages, mash, onion gravy £9.75
Pan seared megrim sole, nut brown butter, capers, sautéed maris peer potatoes £17.50
Roast butternut squash, pearl barley risotto, mixed leaf salad £12
Extra Sides £2
Sautéed Maris Peer potatoes Hand cut chips Mash
Roast Beetroot Chervil buttered carrots Mixed leaf salad £1.50
Children’s Menu
Beef Stew, mash £7.50
6X battered Pollack, mushy peas, hand cut chips £6.50
Jon Thorners pork sausages, mash, gravy £5
Ham, free range egg, hand cut chips £4.50
Roast butternut squash risotto £6
Desserts
Amaretto Syllabub £4
Valhrona chocolate bread & butter pudding, cream or ice cream £4.25
Rice pudding brulee £4.75
Spiced, poached autumn pear, vanilla ice cream £4.25
Sticky toffee pudding, butterscotch sauce, toffee ice cream £4.50
Apple & Corsley blackberry crumble, Blackmore vale cream £4.25
Lovington’s ice cream – Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate, Banana, Toffee £1.25 (per scoop)
Sorbets – Lemon or Raspberry £1.25 (per scoop)
South West Cheese – Nettle wrapped Cornish Yarg or Barkham Blue £7
