WHERE TO EAT IN RYE

Wherever possible all our dishes are prepared with local produce including Romney Marsh Lamb, Winchelsea Ham, and Rye Bay fish including Plaice, Seabass, Halibut and Cod.
See our special Taste of Rye menu on our website

On Saturday 10th and 17th October we will be offering a gourmet four course meal for £35 per person including wine. Full details will be available on the website shortly. Booking essential.
No accomodation

Rye Lodge Hotel

The Terrace Restaurant
Hilder’s Cliff, Rye TN31 7LD
Tel. 01797 223838
email info@ryelodge.co.uk
www.ryelodge.co.uk
Open every evening between 6pm and 9pm

Rye Bay Plaice Veronique
A whole Rye Bay plaice poached, baked in the oven and served with fresh halved grapes and masked with a white wine and cream sauce.
Rack of Romney Marsh Lamb
A three-rib, rack of Romney Marsh Lamb grilled to your liking and served with a delicious redcurrant and mint sauce

A very special offer of Rye Bay Catch of the Day with fresh vegetables and a glass of wine for £12.50 will be available throughout the festival.
(accommodation available at Riverhaven Hotel across river)

Rye Bay Catch of the Day served with fresh vegetables and a glass of wine will be available at the special price of £7.50 starters and mains from £12.50 per head daily specials and table d'hôte throughout the festival.

Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner 12-2.30pm and 6pm -11pm.

A Six Course Gourmet Menu featuring the best of seasonal local produce will be available for £32 from Tuesday-Friday.
Taster Menu,
A Ten Course Taster Menu ten perfectly formed dishes featuring the best local ingredients. Starts at 7pm, limited places £30 pp. features on the 9^th, with Paul Webbe’s fabulous Taste of Rye Autumn Cookery School running in the week. Don’t miss the cookery demonstrations and special luncheons on the last weekend. For further details see the Events Section of this website.
Sample menu items during the Taste of Rye week include:
TO START
Pumpkin raviolis with sage butter wilted greens, Tian of crab with roast lobster dressing, Whiting fillets in lemon and rosemary breadcrumbs with black plum chutney.
MAIN COURSE
Grilled fillets of flounder with chive and brown shrimp sauce
Pan fried plaice fillets with young beetroot, red chard, watercress and crisp bacon
DESSERTS
Sticky toffee apple with cinnamon brioche and blackberry compote
Pear tatin with blueberry ice cream
Plum and hazelnut tart with vanilla ice cream
No accommodation

Menu items during the festival will feature locally caught fish such as Pan-fried Sea Bass with whipped avocado cream served with rocket and sun dried tomato salad and a balsamic reduction.
Lemon Sole Fillets with a clam and chive sauce.
Fresh golden beetroot salad with warm Sussex goat’s cheese and a black pepper dressing.

Special menus for the Taste of Rye festival will feature a selection of fish from Rye Bay and Hastings day boats freshly cooked with an Italian flavour and a Chocolate Flourless cake baked lovingly by Cakes of Love.
A Special Offer of a free bottle of wine with any 2 main meals guests spending up to a value of £25. Please present the voucher on the back of the Taste of Rye guide.
No accommodation

The Mint,
High Street,
Rye TN31 7EN
Tel. 01797 225996
email: info@standardinn.co.uk
web: www.standardinn.co.uk

The restaurant menu will feature:
Homemade local wild boar pate
Locally caught shrimps served with brown bread and butter
Medallions of venison from a local source served on a root vegetable mash with red wine gravy
Home made pheasant casserole
See the Events Section for details of our ‘Councillors For Cash’ night on Wednesday 14^th October.
Special local produce bar snacks, Town Councillors raising cash for the community and a great fun night!

The Ship Inn

Strand Quay,
Rye
Tel. 01797 222233
email: karen@theshipinnrye.co.uk
web: www.theshipinnrye.co.uk

The Ship serves great traditional English pub dishes using locally sourced ingredients such as Rye Bay fish, fruit and veg from the High Street greengrocers, meat from a local farm and not forgetting organic cider from Oakwood Farm.
Opening hours are 9am till 11pm when breakfast, lunch and dinner is served every day.
The Ship Inn will host a variety of great food themed events throughout the festival please see the Events Section for details.

The special menu during the festival will feature local game, meats and fish. A Taste of Rye with Italian flair!
Carpaccio with white truffle White truffle and royal ovule mushroom salad Risotto with truffled butter and shavings Veal with porcini mushrooms and truffle shavings Panna Cotta with chocolate truffle sauce.

During Taste of Rye the Tuscan Kitchen will be hosting a very special truffle based menu with a Chianti wine tasting – details of which can be found in the Events Section.
no accomodation

Open for Lunch – Saturday and Sunday 12 to 3pm
Dinner – Wednesday to Saturday from 7pm
The Landgate’s special menus will feature the following:
Fish pie with 3 varieties of Rye Bay fish with wine and Northiam cream sauce
Beckley Wood wild mushroom tart
Confit of Romney Marsh rabbit with mustard mash
Slow-cooked leg of local wild boar with gratin of autumn vegetables.

Special offers during the festival include a Set dinner with local produce on Wednesday and Thursday – 2 courses £14.90 or 3 courses £17.90
Set lunch using local produce on Saturday and Sunday – 2 courses £11.50 or 3 courses £14.50
No Accomodation

Hotel open all day, Monday – Sunday. Restaurant open for lunch 12pm-3pm and dinner 6pm-10.30pm.

A special mid-week accommodation package will also be available for visitors to the Taste of Rye festival. If you stay during the week at the George in Rye for two nights in a deluxe room or junior suite you will able to enjoy a free dinner in the restaurant on one night (up to the value of £25 per head).

The George will be offering a special lunch dish of Rye Bay fish and chips with mushy peas during the festival and the details of their Gourmet Dinner featuring Chapel Down wines can be found in the events section. See details of this event on their website

New Lydd road,
Camber
TN37 6HG
Tel: 01797 225057
Email: enquiries@theplaceatthebeach.co.uk
Website: www.theplaceatthebeach.co.uk

A 2009 Sunday Times best value rural hotel winner. The Place at the Beach is just 2 minutes walk from Camber Sands. The drift wood themed restaurant and deck make this a great place to eat.

The Place at the Beach will also be offering a fantastic 2 night Gourmet Escape & English Wines Tour - details of which can be found in the Events Section.