Cloisters Restaurant Menu

Afternoon Tea

• Maldon Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese
• Free Range Egg Mayonnaise, Hampshire Watercress
• Suffolk Ham, Mustard Grain Mayonnaise
• Mature Artisan Cheddar Cheese, Tomato
• Coronation Chicken
  Rolled in roasted almonds

• Fruit Jellies
• Chef's Own 'Jammy Dodger'
• Cookie and Cream
• Strawberry Macaroon

• Suffolk Ham
• Cheddar Cheese
• Free Range Egg Mayonnaise

• Wild Boar Scotch Egg
  With relish
• Mini Dedham Vale Beef Wellington
• Norfolk Black Leg Chicken Croquette
• Colchester Potted Crab
  With rye toast

• Maple Cured Bacon Scone and Black Truffle Butter
  Plain or sultana scone

• Tea
• Strawberry Milkshake
• Hot Chocolate
• Mocktails

• Royal Air Force Tea for Heroes
  Makaibari Estate, Darjeeling, India and Satemwa Estate, Thyolo Mountains, Malawi. Traditional British tea at its finest - made originally for a Battle of Britain WW2 navigator. This tea has a unique depth of flavour with satisfying complexity. With soft, floral notes from the foothills of the Himalayas and a rich, deep base from the Shire Highlands of Malawi. It has an aromatic honey nose with a malty finish
• Earl Grey
  Satemwa Estate, Thyolo Mountains, Malawi and Reggio Calabria, Italy. A traditional Earl Grey made exclusively by Rare Tea Company from hand-crafted single estate black tea and natural bergamot oil from the ancient citrus groves of Calabria. This is tea as it used to be - not a modern approximation of a classic. A clean and exceptionally bright tea and can be enjoyed with a twist of lemon zest in place of milk
• Second Flush Muscatel Darjeeling
  Makaibari Estate, Darjeeling, India. This highly fragrant black tea is picked in the foothills of The Himalayas on one of the oldest and most beautiful estates in Darjeeling. They care immeasurably about the land, the people who live and work on it, and craft the finest tea imaginable. It has a heady, floral aroma with dark notes of caramel and muscatel grapes. Best enjoyed without milk
• Whole Green Leaf
  Fuding, Fujian Province, China. An exquisite Chinese green tea that has been meticulously hand-crafted. The leaves are fired in a wok over charcoal in the same way, and in the same place it has been produced for 3000 years. Refreshing with a light smoky undertone, it is the antithesis of bitter, mass produced green teas
• Jasmine Silver Tip
  Fuding, Fujian Province, China. A delicate white tea crafted entirely from spring buds. The tea is carefully scented over six consecutive nights with fresh jasmine flowers. Once the preserve of only the Chinese Imperial family. A deep and heady aroma with an elegant and gentle flavour

• Sri Lankan Lemongrass
  Amba Estate, Ravanna Falls, Sri Lanka. A smooth, rich herbal infusion with flavours of cut hay and lemon drops. This uniquely complex and full-bodied lemongrass is grown in a remote mountain tea garden above the Ravanna falls, Sri Lanka
• English Peppermint
  Tregothnan Botanical Gardens, Cornwall, UK. A rare English peppermint grown in Cornwall on the Tregothnan Estate, established in 1335. Counter-intuitively, the menthol oils infuse more easily from the dried leaf, giving a brighter, cleaner flavour than fresh mint. It has a strong peppery nose with a smooth balanced flavour
• English Chamomile
  Tregothnan Botanical Gardens, Cornwall, UK. Grown in a botanical garden on the Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall. These chamomile flowers are extraordinarily sweet, pure and aromatic. The taste of summer meadows