Meal for Four?           It could be you....

...well it is if you happen to be Mark & Bridget MacGranthin - you've won this months meal for four, congratulations!

Spring has sprung & the specials boards are starting to look sunnier.....

TROUT & OATCAKE
Flakes of home smoked rainbow trout over rocket & radiccio salad with home made oatcakes and almond & rosemary aioli.

MUSHROOM PATE
Pate of Porcini & chestnut mushrooms, ground almonds and sundried tomatoes. It comes with sticky onion marmalade and soft farmhouse white from our favourite baker

SUMMER SALMON
Fillet of fresh pink salmon over slow braised lentils and wilted spinach. Cherry tomatoes on the vine with a lemon dressing complete the "lazy summer lunch in the garden feeling".

GAMMON & PORK BELLY
Take a tasty rasher of best gammon and a chunk of slow roasted tender pork belly, then add honey roasted veg with sage butter glaze.... delicious.

MORE WINNERS!
10 more people have won a FREE BOTTLE OF WINE with their next meal at
The Dining Room this month - check -
                                   it could be you! 

Have the chefs gone mad? They've decided to enter the Shepperton Village Fair Raft Race - sponsored byNauticalia. Ably run by Desborough Sailing Club - this is a mighty event! Theme for 2009 is Countries of the World - no debate here, we'll be going as good old Blighty. Slightly more tricky is quite how we define Blighty on a raft? Current thoughts tend towards some kind of oversize suet pudding, maybe with custard...
Trevor has decreed that full sets are compulsory on the day so shaving is banned for the foreseable.
If you fancy entering a team yourself entry forms are available here.

FAST CAKE

Sent in by by our good friend Charles Moore of...
Charles inhabits a world where the word "can't" just does not exist - you want a freshly baked cake in under 5 minutes? Here's how! The sharp eyed amongst you will have immediately realised that our recent tentative steps into the 21st century web-wise world might just have something to do with Charles... and you'd be right. We'll probably never move as fast as Charles would like, we're English after all, and we like to pause for tea!