FIVE FESTIVE menus offer a feast for the whole family this winter at a welcoming pub nestled in the Denshaw hills.
The Printers Arms has added seasonal lunch and dinner options as well as Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve menus to its already extensive food selection.
Ian Carr took over the 1717 pub in 2008 with Gary Davey and Terry Furlong and they hope the meals will give locals a tasty and varied choice to tickle their taste buds this holiday season.
Available throughout December, the seasonal lunch offers three courses followed by coffee and mince pies for just £17.50 per person or £8.95 for under 10s.
Diners can choose between leek and potato soup, warm goats cheese and red onion tartlet or duck liver pâté for starters, tuck into roast turkey, cod fillet on Mediterranean vegetables or roast beef for their main course plus vegetarian option and finish with Christmas pudding, ice cream or crème brulée.
Extra options in the seasonal dinner include a king prawn and chorizo starter along with main course choices of haddock, corn fed chicken, ribeye steak or mixed bean enchiladas.
A selection of cheese and biscuits is also available for dessert followed by coffee and mince pies, all for £21.50 per person or £11.50 for under 10s.
Guests eating at the pub on Christmas Day can spoil themselves with a starter of chicken and vegetable broth, grilled red mullet fillet, Italian Meats or warm leek and stilton tartlet.
This is followed up by a main course of roast turkey, fillets of lemon sole, medallions of beef fillet or broccoli and goats cheese in puff pastry and desserts of Christmas pudding, Chocolate and orange petit pot, trifle or cheese and biscuits.
Rounded off with coffee and chocolate mints, this delicious Christmas feast costs £49.50 per person or £27.50 for under 10s.
Or if you want to follow up a home-cooked Christmas meal by dining out on Boxing Day, the Printers Arms is offering two courses for £16.95 per person (under 10s £9.50) or three for £20.95 (under 10s £11.50).
Guests can wet their appetite with soup of the day, Greek salad, chicken liver pâté, fruit and berries with raspberry coulis or a prawn cocktail.
For main courses, there is steak and mushroom pie, chicken breast, salmon, beer battered cod, risotto of asparagus and mushrooms or ribeye steak, rounded off with apple crumble, crème brulée, ice cream or cheese and biscuits.
And the pub is also offering a luxurious five-course dinner to help diners see in the New Year in style, available for £44.95 per person, or £24.50 for under 10s, followed by fireworks at midnight and a ‘wee dram’.
Starters include French onion soup, Haggis potato cake topped with a poached egg or trio of melon followed by char grilled tuna steak.
A main course choice of lamb rump, medallions of beef fillet, breaded goats cheese with rocket salad and to finish cherry and almond tart, raspberry and lime pannacotta or cheese and biscuits, coffee and chocolate mints to finish.
After undergoing a total refurbishment, the Printers Arms, which received a Certificate of Excellence 2014 from Trip Advisor, serves food daily from 12noon to 9pm (until 8pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays) in its fine dining restaurant.
Their team of highly qualified chefs, led by Martin Jones and assisted by Mark Britt, pride themselves on using fresh, local produce in their dishes.
They have created a menu that incorporates classic pub dishes with exciting specials – look out for new dishes coming in November.
They have a selection of fine wines from around the world, served by the glass or bottle, which can be enjoyed with a meal or in the pub’s Beer Garden with spectacular views of Saddleworth.
For full menus and pre order forms, please visit the Printers Arms website www.theprintersarms.co.uk or call into the pub at 20, Oldham Road, Denshaw. For more information please ring 01457 874248.
Bookings must be made at least seven days in advance and deposits are required.
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