Menus
Short menus that follow the seasons, cooked to order. Prices and allergens are straight from our kitchen's own system, so what you see is what's on today.
Lunch and dinner
A short menu that follows the seasons: meat from Hill Farm, vegetables from the walled garden at Ashcombe Court, bread baked here every morning.
Allergen boardTo start
- Bread and butterv£4.50
Our sourdough, whipped Netherend butter, Maldon salt
GlMi - Scotch egg£8.50
Hill Farm pork and black pudding, soft yolk, piccalilli
GlEgMuSu - Roast squash soupve£7.50
Sage, toasted seeds, sourdough
GlCe - Smoked mackerel pâté£9
Pickled cucumber, horseradish, toast
FiMiGlMu - Ham hock terrinegf£9.50
Pease pudding, burnt apple, crackling
MuCeSu
Pub classics
- Beer-battered haddockFridays' favourite£18.50
Chips cooked in dripping, crushed peas, tartare sauce, lemon
FiGlEgMuSu - Steak and Royal Oak ale pie£19
Hot water crust, mash, buttered greens, proper gravy
GlMiCeSu - Oak burger£18
Hill Farm chuck, Ashcombe Blue, bacon jam, pickles, brioche, chips
GlMiEgMuSeSu - Sausage and mash£16.50
Three Hill Farm sausages, onion gravy, mustard mash
GlMiMuSu - Wild mushroom and spinach piev£17
Mash, buttered greens, mushroom gravy
GlMiEgCe - Cauliflower and chickpea curryveNew this week£16
Lime pickle, coconut rice, flatbread
Allergens: ask us, the kitchen is checking this dish
From the grill
Hill Farm beef, dry aged for 35 days. With chips, roast tomato and watercress.
- 10oz sirloingf£32None of the 14 allergens
- 8oz rumpgf£25None of the 14 allergens
- Peppercorn or Ashcombe Blue saucegf£3MiSu
On the side
- Dripping chipsgf£5None of the 14 allergens
- Buttered greensvgf£5Mi
- House saladvegf£5MuSu
Puddings
- Sticky toffee puddingv£8.50
Butterscotch sauce, clotted cream
GlMiEg - Bramley apple crumblev£8
Oat and hazelnut crumble, custard
GlMiEgNu - Dark chocolate tartv£8.50
Blood orange, crème fraîche
GlMiEgSo - Three local cheesesv£11
Oatcakes, chutney, grapes
MiGlCeSu
Every dish is cooked to order here. Allergens are on the allergen board and from any of the team: please tell us about any allergy when you order. Fish may contain small bones. A discretionary 10% service charge is added for tables of eight or more.
Sunday lunch
Roasts carved to order with goose-fat potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, roast roots, cauliflower cheese, greens and a jug of gravy for the table.
- 2 courses £29
- 3 courses £34
- Roast only £22
Starters
- Roast squash soupve
Sage, toasted seeds, sourdough
GlCe - Scotch egg
Piccalilli
GlEgMuSu - Smoked mackerel pâté
Pickled cucumber, toast
FiMiGlMu
Roasts
- Roast sirloin of Hill Farm beefSunday£4 supplement
Served pink, horseradish
GlMiEgCeSu - Slow-roast pork belly
Crackling, apple sauce
GlMiEgCeSu - Half a roast chicken
Sage and onion stuffing, bread sauce
GlMiEgCeSu - Nut roastve
Chestnut, mushroom and cranberry, vegetable gravy
NuCeGlSu
Puddings
- Sticky toffee puddingv
Clotted cream
GlMiEg - Bramley apple crumblev
Custard
GlMiEgNu
Every dish is cooked to order here. Allergens are on the allergen board and from any of the team: please tell us about any allergy when you order. Fish may contain small bones. A discretionary 10% service charge is added for tables of eight or more.
Drinks
Four cask ales on the hand pumps, three from within twenty miles, kept by Sam in the cellar he's very proud of.
Allergen boardOn the hand pumps
Pints. Halves are half price.
- Royal Oak Bestve£4.60
Our house bitter, brewed for us by Ashcombe Brewing. 3.8%
Gl - Malvern Goldve£4.80
Golden, citrus, dangerously easy. 4.2%
Gl - Old Coaching House£5
Dark ruby ale, toffee and plum. 4.6%
Gl - Guest ale£5
Ask at the bar or look at the board
Allergens: ask us, the kitchen is checking this dish
Lager and cider
- Ashcombe Lagerve£5.60
Pilsner. 4.4%
Gl - Orchard Cidervegf£5.20
Still, cloudy, from the next valley. 5.5%
Su - Alcohol-free lagerve£4.20
0.5%
Gl
Wine by the glass
- House white, Picpoul de Pinetvegf£7.50175mlSu
- House red, Côtes du Rhônevegf£7.50175mlSu
- English sparkling, Three Choirsvegf£10125mlSu
Gin and something
- Malvern Hills gin and tonicvegf£9
With apple and rosemary
None of the 14 allergens - Oak Spritzvegf£10
Elderflower, English sparkling, soda
Su
Wine by the glass in 175ml or 250ml; spirits in 25ml measures. Challenge 25: please bring ID if you look under 25.
Little ones
Smaller plates of the real thing. Every main comes with a drink and a scoop of ice cream.
- Any main with a drink and ice cream £9
Mains
- Fish fingers and chips
Peas or beans
FiGlEg - Sausage and mash
Gravy, peas
GlMiSu - Tomato pastav
Parmesan on the side
GlMiCe - A small roast
Sundays only
GlMiEgCeSu
Know what's in it.
The letters beside each dish are the allergens it contains. Filter by what you can't eat on the allergen board.
Open the allergen board- Ce
- Celery
- Gl
- Cereals containing gluten
- Cr
- Crustaceans
- Eg
- Eggs
- Fi
- Fish
- Lu
- Lupin
- Mi
- Milk
- Mo
- Molluscs
- Mu
- Mustard
- Nu
- Tree nuts
- Pe
- Peanuts
- Se
- Sesame
- So
- Soya
- Su
- Sulphur dioxide and sulphites