Restaurant Menu
Here at Eddie Gilberts we offer a tasty menu crafted by our chef to offer a selection of fresh local produce. Please view a seleciton of our dishes below.
Our fish and chips are cooked the old fashioned way in beef dripping. Please let us know if you are a vegetarian or would prefer yours cooked in vegetable oil.
We try to be family friendly and are able to do child portions for most dishes.
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SAMPLE MENU
Because we get new fresh fish daily, this is just a sample menu of dishes we sometimes have on as the menu here at Eddie Gilberts changes very frequently.
Starters
Breast of wood pigeon, goats cheese fritters, walnuts, beetroot & celery leaf salad 6.50
Carrot & cumin soup, spiced croutons, mixed sakura cress & herb oil 5.00
Pan fried scallops, oven dried tomatoes, mixed vegetable crisps & a butternut puree 8.00
Thai fish & crab cake, spiced turbot with an Oriental salad, cucumber relish & a lime & sesame dressing 7.00
Panko breaded plaice goujons in a newspaper cone, mixed leaf salad & tartare sauce 5.50
Avocado mousse wrapped in smoked salmon, saffron mayonnaise, soused fennel & lemon oil dressing 7.00
“Ploughman’s salad”, smoked venison & duck, Morbier cheese, home-made Branston pickle, brioche 7.50
West Mersea Rock oysters either au naturel, wasabi, ginger & lime or grilled with chorizo 1.50 each
Mains
Pan fried sea bream & scallops, spicy Mediterranean vegetable stew & lemon cous cous 16.50
Indian marinated salmon fillet, saffron braised rice, shallot bhaji, wilted spinach & a spiced curry sauce 16.50
Pan fried fillets of sea bass, crispy King prawns, crushed potatoes, cauliflower beignets & a bisque sauce 17.00
Fritto misto, battered fish to include; cod, squid, king prawn, bass, lemon sole, scallop & haddock 14.50
Served with chips, aioli & a lightly spiced tomato ragu
Roasted fillet of local cod with a seafood & saffron risotto, sakura cress & a salsa Verdi dressing 16.50
Fillet of English beef, shredded sprouts with walnut halves, rosemary sauté potatoes, shallot confit 21.00
& a peppery port jus
Braised Alkham Valley lamb ballotine, French trimmed cutlet, dauphinoise potatoes, 17.00
purple spouting broccoli & red wine jus
Battered Fish
Cooked in beef dripping or vegetable oil, served with chips, tartar sauce & lemon.
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Cod £9.50
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Haddock £9.50
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Plaice £9.00
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Skate £11.00
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Rig £9.00
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Breaded scampi (10 pieces) £8.50
Grilled Fish
Grilled & served with chips or new potatoes, tartar sauce & lemon.
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Dover sole - priced by weight
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Sea bream (2 fillets or whole) £13.50
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Salmon (8oz fillet) £11.50
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Skate £11.00
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Plaice (8oz fillet) £9.00
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Cod £9.50
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Haddock £9.50
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Sea bass £14.00
Home Made Fishcakes
Served with lemon, tartar sauce, chips & salad.
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2 Smoked haddock & spring onion fishcakes £7.00
Children's Menu £5.50
All children's meals are served with chips or mash and either baked beans or peas.
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Small battered cod
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2x Sausage (plain or battered)
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Scampi (5 pieces)
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Cheesey pasta
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Fish Nuggets
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Smoked haddock fishcake
Kentish Hand Made Free Range Pure Pies (examples)
Served with chips or mash & gravy
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Steak, horseradish & ale £6.00
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Minced beef, potato & onion gravy £6.00
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Minted lamb & new potato £6.00
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Chicken & smoked ham £6.00
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Spicy butterbean & mature cheddar (v) £6.00
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Steak & kidney £6.00
Light Bites
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Mussel with cream, white wine & garlic 6.00
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Add chips extra 1.00
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Crispy calamari rings, lemon mayo 4.95
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Crispy fried whitebait, cayenne pepper 4.95
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Smoked Salmon, lemon wedge, brown bread 6.50
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Bowl of jellied eels 3.95
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½ pint shell on prawns, lemon mayo 4.50
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Marinated anchovies 2.50
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Cockles 3.95
Side Dishes
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Rocket & parmesan salad 1.95
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Dressed mixed leaf salad 1.95
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Green beans & peas 2.50
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Minted mushy peas 1.25
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Chips in dripping or veg oil 1.50
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Buttered New Potatoes 2.00
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Steamed English samphire 3.00 (seasonal)
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Garden peas 1.25
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Pickled Gherkin, Onion or Egg 50p each