The Good Food Guide 2013

Well, we hoped we would but you can never be sure! But after months of crossed fingers we have finally heard that we have made it into The Good Food Guide 2013! wahoooo!

we are all so excited but owe a HUGE thank you to everyone that voted for us this year, we really do appreciate it!

we cannot wait to get our copy and read what they have said about us!

Book your table to join us for some Good Food soon!

The Samphire Team

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The Lobster Run

Samphire’s Lobster Lunches

Summer is here and we are celebrating in style so why don't you kick off the Sunny Season at Samphire!

We are open every lunch from Monday - Saturday but why not join us for lunch from Wednesday to Saturday and tuck in to some specially selected Lobster!

The Lobster Run

Simple........

Half a Lobster each with a Garlic and Chilli Butter

Chunky Chips to share

Roasted Vegetable Salad to share

2 Large Glasses of Wine

for just £40

All you need to do is book a table so we know you're coming!

We look forward to seeing you!

The Samphire Team

01243 672754

This offer depends on Availability, Lobsters may not have been caught!

Warming things up a bit!

Yuck! The weather could not be more miserable for JULY!! Well, lets face it....we cannot work miracles and make the sun shine but we can do our best to make things a little more pleasant for you!

This week at Samphire "WeLoveCoffee"!

Come in and see us for lunch or supper and we will treat you to a wonderfully warming tea or coffee after your food to prepare you for the blustery outside.

The perfect way to finish a walk in the wet witterings, some grub at Samphire and a hot bevvie on the house! Just don't for get to tell us that you love coffee too!!!

Samphire's Secret Diners Club

Here at Samphire we have decided to start a new campaign, a Thank You campaign! So......Welcome to our Secret Diners Club!

For taking the time to be interested in our blog and whats going on we are going to reward you! Each week we are going to be running a special offer code that will be found either on our blog or on our facebook page Samphire Restaurant.

Sound appealing? What better way to start than with a wonderful wine offer!

Come in and see us any time between now and Wednesday July 11th quoting "WeLoveWine" and we will give you a recommended glass of wine with your starter and another one for your main course.........on us!

Why not give us a call and book your table now!

We look forward to seeing you!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom's Tasty Chicken Liver Pate

Monday Night spells Locals Night down at Samphire East Wittering.....this Monday we have lots of delectable delights including Prawn, Crab and Haddock Macaroni Cheese, Piri Piri Chicken and Tom's Chicken Liver Pate......why not try it?

Things you will need...............

• 250g Chicken Livers
• 2 shallots
• 150g butter
• 2 garlic cloves
• 100ml red wine
• a splash of brandy

Here we go......................

• Sear the livers in some of the butter, so they’re still pink in the middle. Then set them aside

• In a saucepan soften the shallots and garlic in some more of the butter, without colouring them. Now add the liquid and reduce the mixture until it’s a syrupy consistency.

• Add the livers and the rest of the butter back to saucepan and cook until the butter has melted.

• Now put in a food processor and leave to set in the fridge

Chicken liver pate… done! Quenelle on to a wooden chopping board and serve with some red onion chutney and rustic bread!!!

We enjoyed it..............Hope you do too!!!!!!!!!!!

Samphire Sussex is going Suitably Patriotic for the Up Coming Celebrations!

Join us on Monday June 2nd for some traditionally English Jubilance!

Bank Holiday or not, on Monday we will be going ahead with our Locals Night, why not come and join us! The English Kitchen is going one step further with a specially selected Jubilee menu!

Coronation Chicken, Local Mackerel, our own Samphire Sausages, Pollock Fish and Chips......It dont get more Biritsh than that!

2 Courses for £10

3 Courses for £13

Jug of Pimms £12!

Come and Celebrate with your favourite local restaurant................

Book Now To Avoid Disappointment!

The Samphire Team

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The Good Food Guide 2013

That time of year has come again when we need your help!

 If you have eaten with us in the past year and enjoyed yourselves, please share your experience! The Good Food Guide's Restaurant of the Year Nominations are now closed (we hope you voted!!), however, customer recommendations for the 2013 guide are still open!!

Please take 5minutes to tell The Good Food Guide how wonderful we are! The fabulous news is it could not be easier to share your views.....Simply follow the link below, fill in a couple of details and its all done!

http://www.thegoodfoodguide.co.uk/feedback

In the mean time, don't forget to come in a visit us and enjoy some delicious seasonal delights!

The Samphire Team

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Keep Your Love Local!

With Christmas just vanishing behind us, it’s time to start treating your loved ones again, why not join us for Valentines Day? This year we are offering a special menu for just £30 per person....…..Book early to avoid disappointment……….

01243 672754

Starters

Hand Dived Scallop with a Rockefeller Baked Oyster and a Salmon Tartar

Carpaccio of Beef with Skinny Chips and a Rocket and Parmesan Salad

Cauliflower, Parmesan and Truffle Puree with a Goats Cheese Beigniet and Pickled Mushrooms

Mains

Beef Wellington with Dauphinoise Potatoes, Green Beans and Honey Roasted Vegetables

Pistachio Crusted Lamb Rack with an Irish Stew, Saffron Potatoes and Green Beans

Whole Dover Sole with a Lemon Caper Butter, Pesto New Potatoes, Buttered Greens and Honey Roasted Vegetables

Butternut Gnocchi with a Leek, Sprout and Parmesan Cream served with a Rocket Salad

Pudding

Champagne Rhubarb Trifle

Chocolate, Almond and Biscuit Slab with Raspberry Ice-Cream

Sussex Cheese Board with Miller Damson Biscuits

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Coffee and Truffles

See you soon!!

The Samphire Team

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So after a nice long holiday, we are back! The boys have been busy in the kitchen working to produce a new and exciting menu for you all to enjoy using the best of our fresh, local, seasonal produce. We are back in service from Friday January 20th so give us a call and book your table to be one of the first to taste the new treats.............

•  Crab, Noodle, Ginger and Chili Soup
• Pan Fried Scallops with Pork Belly, Butternut Puree and Vegetable Crisps
• Fois Gras Parfait With Home Made Bread and Dave's Mums Chutney
• Toatsed Golden Goats Cheese with, Roasted Walnuts, Pear and Chickory Salad
• Starter Pie of the Day with Game Crisps and Vegetable Puree

• Pan Fried Fillet of the Day with Stir-Fried Noodles, Chili, Ginger, Pak choi and Vegetables
• Pan-Fried King Prawns with Crab Croquette, a Mussel Buerre Blanc and Rocket Salad
• Orkney Fillet Steak with Green Peppercorn Sauce, Oven Roasted Tomato, Rocket Salad and Chunky Chips
• Crusted Lamb Cutlets with a Mutton Cassolet, Dauphinouse Potatoes and Green Beans
• Slow Roasted Pork Belly Stuffed with Clonakilty Black Pudding and Mushrooms with Olive Mash Potato, Honey Root Vegetables, Brasied Apple and Jus
• Butternut, Roasted Tomato, Rocket and Parmesan Risotto

• Vanilla and Cinnamon Rice Pudding with Sailor Jerry's Rice Pudding Brulee
• Frozen Chocolate, Biscuit and Almond Slab with Homemade Raspberry Ice-Cream
• Forced Champagne Rhubarb Trifle
• Rhubarb, Apple and Berry Crumble with Custard
• Sussex Cheeseboard, Chutney and Miller Damson Biscuits

Tickle your Taste Buds? Come on Down!!!

 

Looking forward to seeing you!

                                                                                                                                                      



Christmas and New Year at Samphire

Just a Quick Blog to let you all know whats going on with us around the festive period. Well as per image, we are off on our holidays! We are open through to and on Christmas Eve evening 7pm onwards, bookings only. From Christmas day through to January 19th we are closed, re-opening on Friday January 20th 2012 so send us an e-mail to book your table!

Thank you to everyone for all the support we have recieved this year, it has been amazing and greatly appreciated!

Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Fabulous New Year and we shall see you in 2012!!

The Samphire Team

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Friday's Dish of The Day!

Todays Chefs Dish of the Day:

Pan-Fried Pheasant Breat with Confit Leg served on a Roasted Pumpkin and Spinach Risotto served with a Wild Mushroom Cream Sauce £14.95

Recommended with a Malbrontes Malbec Torrontes £20

This dish is running alongside all of our usual delicious dishes and other yummy specials like Grey Mullet, Runcton Ham Hock Bon Bons and Scallops.

Give us a call to book your table today!!

The Perfect Christmas Gift

Christmas time is fast approaching, we are taking the stress out of your dining so we thought we would help with the present buying as well!

Why not treat your loved ones to a Samphire English Kitchen Gift Voucher?

With Christmas only 11 weeks away, it's time to start planning your parties! Samphire is the perfect intimate venue for friends, family, work colleagues.....any occasion! We can cater for private functions up to 30 people or why not just bring in a few special guests. Our Christmas menu is full of delicious winter warmers....

• Game Terrine w/ Mulled Wine Poached Pear Salad and Toast
• Crab Cakes w/ Caviar and Dill Crème Fraiche and Rocket Salad
• Slipcote Goats Cheese Pannacotta w/ walnut and Poached Pear Salad

• Turkey Wrapped and rolled in Samphire Sausage Meat and Runton Smoked Bacon w/ Chestnut Puree, Smokey Brussel Sprout Skewers and All The Trimming
• Fish Stew w/ Roast Tomato, Scallop, King Prawn and Bream Fillet in a Crab Bisque Sauce
• Cauliflower, Parmesan and Truffle Oil Puree w/ Sauted Wild Mushrrom and Spinach w/ Cauliflower Gratin, Roasted New Potatoes and Oven Roasted Tomatoes
           

• Home Made Hot Mince Pies w/ Christmas Pudding Ice Cream and Mulled Wine Sauce
• Chocolate Pots w/ Clotted Cream and Kirsch Cherries
• Sussex Cheese Board w/ Miller Damson Biscuits.

Why not give us a call now for more information and let us take the stress out of your Festive celebrations!

Autumn Menu

Despite the recent blast of Summer weather, we are moving into Autumn! To keep up with the seasons, we have launched a new menu with a definite Autumnal feel to it. Come in and join us to enjoy some of our new flavours.....

• Pan-fried Chicken Livers with Wild Mushrooms, Spinach and a Garlic Cream Sauce
• Runcton Ham Hock and Trotter Terrine with William Pair and Red Onion Marmalade Salad
• Selsey Crab and Tiger Prawn risotto with Roast Peppers, Selsey Tomatoes and Basil

• Locally Shot rabbit and Wild Mushroom Suet Pie with Greens and Jerusalem Artichoke Crisps
• Fish Stew with Roast Tomato, Clams, King Prawn, Scallop, White Fish and New Potatoes
• Grilled Lamb Cutlets with Slow Roast Lamb Shoulder Hot Pot, Greens and Cauliflower Gratin...

..........Tempted? Book your table now! Or join us on Locals Night to sample some tasty delights, 2 courses for £10, 3 course for £13!

See you soon!!

Why not have a Fishy Friday?

Tonight is looking busy busy but we still have a couple of spots to fill if you fancy joining us! Tonights specials include:

Scallops with cauliflower and truffle oil puree, parmesan crisps and smoky bacon


Mackerel fillets with a tomato and bacon butter, served with Sussex Charmer new potatoes and spinach


Clam and Haddock chowder with a warm home baked loaf

........Tempted? Give us a call and secure a table!

The Good Food Guide 2012

Dave is off to buy his copy today!

We had our fingers crossed but still never expected the amazing news we received last week......Samphire has made it into The Good Food Guide 2012! Thank you every one for all of the support and votes, it really has meant a lot to Dave and the team! 

Hope to see you soon!!

Breadmaking Course

Dave's been down to Shipton Mill at Frampton  to learn some more about baking and using flour.

Fantastic day crammed full and left at the end with a tray of breads - from rye to pitta and everything in between, few sacks of flour,  and plenty of things to think about....

yummy ciabatta with olive oil and herbs

Really interesting tour round the mill (had to wear this stylish blue hat!) - amazing amount of machinery going 24 hours/day all to produce top quality flour of many varieties...

and brought home three different 'mothers' which all need feeding regularly and which make delicious, different breads...it's what sourdough is all about

hope you'll come and try them soon

Caught the fish and now cutting the veggies!

Can't get much fresher than this.

With the recent rain, everything is growing SO fast!  Down in the vegetable patch, the courgettes are harvested, collected by Dave and straight away cooked and plated up for the next meal.

You'd be forgiven for thinking it's the Mediterranean!

Have we ever mentioned that we like fresh, local food?  Well, this is how it's done.  Sometimes!

the slow drift aboard Samphire

When the weather's good (we'll leave it to the professionals if not!), take a boat, a group of friends and some fishing kit and have a go!  Or go with Adam from Something Fishy who regularly takes groups.

Best way for some sea air and a tan.  And a lot of fun too.

not much happening here!

Can you see the mackerel we caught?

Successful?  Think this says it all!

Come and enjoy the best of the locally caught fish and other produce in our English kitchen near the end of Shore Road in East Wittering.  Look out for the Samphire sign or phone for a reservation on 01243 672754...which is always a good idea as we're so small that tables get filled quickly!

Taste Magazine

Feeling chuffed as there's a full page in the latest Summer edition of Taste Magazine - all about samphire.  (See page 24)

They talk about the different dishes that we've put together for this month using samphire imaginatively from an accompaniment to fish dishes, in salads, pancakes and even Tony Wallace's specially made sausages.

Pick up a copy and follow us there - and even better come and visit and taste some fine English cooking using lots of local ingredients.

We'd love to see you but please book to avoid disappointment.