THE MARKET HOUSE PUB IN BRIDPORT
- Name: The Market House Pub
- Adress: 17 West Street, Bridport, Dorset DT6 3QN
- Telephone: 01308 459 669
- E-mail: info@markethouse-bridport.co.uk
- Web: www.markethouse-bridport.co.uk
- Open: from 9am for breakfast until 11pm everyday with food all day.
Contemporary town centre pub with many different areas, making a large pub feel intimate. Classic home-cooked pub menu with Fish and Grill specials. All Day Carvery on Sundays. 5 Real Ales and a large wine, spirit & soft drink collection. South facing non-smoking front terrace with open patio doors and a secluded & botanical pretty sunny rear courtyard. The privately operated Market House Pub + Kitchen sits right in the centre of the Charter Market town of Bridport with its street markets every Wednesday and Saturday. We are open from 10am every day with food available from 10am until 9pm (5pm on Sunday). The early morning starts with anything from a beautiful Segefredo coffee, with cakes and breakfasts, small or large. The full menu, including specials, runs from midday and is complimented by an extensive range of drinks. A large part of the Market House can accommodate dogs, and children are welcome.
SAMPLE MENU AT THE MARKET HOUSE
Starters/Light Bites:
- Bread board with balsamic reduction + mixed olives £5
- Sticky beef skewers, spring onion + radish salad, pitta bread £7 / £10
- Shell on prawns, bloody mary sauce, crusty bread 1/2 pt £7 / 1pt £12.00
- Tomato, avocado + watercress salad with basil dressing £6.50 / £9.50 add buffalo mozzarella £1.50 / £3
- Soup of the moment with warm bread £5.25
Cottage Rolls (Served on white or granary)
- Fish goujons + tartar sauce
- Roast beef + horseradish
- Pork + piccalilli
- Mature cheddar +chutney
- Back bacon, lettuce + tomato
- Served with house salad and vegetable crisps £8 or skinny fries £9.00
Mains:
- Market House beef burger + hand cut chips + mustard mayonnaise £10.50
- Add Bacon £1.50 Mature cheddar £1 Dorset Blue Vinny £1.50
- Pan fried chicken breast with spring vegetable + potatoes in a thyme and creme fraiche sauce £13
- Poached salmon, green beans, watercress, beetroot salad + horseradish cream dressing £13
- Carrot, baby corn, cumin and barley summer stew £12.00 *vegan*
- Spinach pesto pasta mixed with feta cheese and black olives £10 *veggie*
- Luxury Fish pie, selection of fish + king prawns ina tarragon sauce topped with mashed potato + cheddar cheese served with house salad £14.50
- Gammon steak, house salad, hand cut chips with fried egg or pineapple salsa £12
- Whole tail scampi with tartar sauce, house salad+ hand cut chips £12
- Summer platter – charcuterie meats, feta cheese, sun dried tomatoes, olives, pickled chilies + focaccia bread £12
- Sirloin steak with garlic butter, hand cut chips + house salad 8oz £18.50
- Rump steak, field mushroom, tomato, house salad, peppercorn sauce, onion rings + hand-cut chips 6oz £11.50 12oz £17.50
Puddings:
- Lemon curd fool with shortbread biscuit £6
- Iced crunchy raspberry ripple terrine £6
- Dark chocolate tart with strawberry sorbet £6.50
- Brioche bread + butter pudding with vanilla icecream £6
- British farmhouse cheeses with fig + apple chutney, grapes & biscuits. Ask your server for today’s selection £8
- Ice creams + sorbets £2 per scoop
- Chocolate Heaven, Succulent Strawberry, Rum & Raisin, Honeycombe, Very Vanilla, Mango Sorbet, Raspberry Sorbet
PALMERS WINE STORE AND CELLAR IN BRIDPORT
- Name: Palmers Wine Store
- Adress: Old Brewery, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4JA, England
- Tel: 01308 427500 Fax: 01308 421149
- Email: wine.store@palmersbrewery.com
- Web: www.palmerswinestore.com
- History: Palmers Wine Store is a family owned, independent, leading Wine Merchant in Dorset since 1794. Today, this tradition is as strong as it has ever been. Palmers Wine Store, located on the historic Brewery site, offers a range of over 1000 wines, spirits, fortified wines, liqueurs and real ales. They have built a reputation on their outstanding customer service and the high quality of their wines. This wines offer a great sense of regionality and true reflection of the place and people who make them.
- Quality: With continuous tasting and careful evaluation they have developed an extensive range of wines that offer value and quality, wines that offer great regionality and that are a reflection of the place and people who make them.
- Wine Advice: This experienced team would be delighted to offer advice on any wine related subject. If you have a question on Menu Matching for a dinner or lunch, they will have the answer. If you would like to know how to store your wine or know how long it should be cellared, they would be happy to answer your questions. Pone: 01308 427 500 or email info@palmerswinestore.com
- Wine Tasting News: The other great advantage to buying wine from Palmers Wine Store is that they offer a maling list and monthly tastings events, where you can meet winemakers, discover vineyards, receive tips on tasting, etc. They run two tasting societies which operate in Dorchester and in Bridport, meeting on the last Thursday and Friday of each month respectively. In Dorchester they have recently moved to a new venue, Cafe Paninis on the new Eldridge Pope development and in Bridport they use the conference room in the historic Palmers Brewery. Tastings are themed around a country, region or producer, as always they are delighted that many of their tastings are hosted by growers, makers and importers of distinction and renown. After each tasting they also offer a hand selected case which they feel includes the best wines from each tasting at a special delivered price.
- Enomatic Wine Sampling Machine: The machine dispenses wine in sample size portions whilst preserving it in perfect condition. Sampling is a fun way to try before you buy, experiment with new wines, varieties and regions and offers a unique opportunity to try iconic wines without breaking the bank. Sampling in Palmers Wine Store is simple, come in the shop, register for a card and add some credit (minimum £10). Wines are dispensed in three sizes from 25ml and the price of each wine is displayed on the machine, samples start from as little as 30p each. Try a wine (spittoons provided), try another, come back another day and try something new. You can also purchase cards online here, great as a gift.
- E-comerce: Palmers Wine Store offer excellent wine online with free delivery over £90 to the UK mainland. Retail store sales still account for the vast majority of wine sales, yet online wine sales are growing. The fact is that these e-commerce sites are helping customers acclimate to buying wine online, a significant factor for an ecommerce category that has grown steadily, but unspectacularly for the last decade. It’s the holiday season for consumers, but for the wine industry value-chain its “OND” an acronym for October-November-December, also known as the make or break time of year when upwards of 40% of all annual retail wine sales are realized.
BODEGAS URBINA TASTING AT PALMERS WINE STORE
Bodegas Urbina is located in Cuzcurrita de Rio Tiron, an area of Rioja Alta known for its long lived wines. Is a small family owned estate consisting of some 75ha of vineyards. Four generations of the family have dedicated themselves to the cultivation of their vineyards and production of wine. In 1975 Urbina began to age and bottle their own wine in order to retain the special characteristics of a small single estate. Their sole objective, the production of quality wines, has been achieved as the result of careful viticulture using traditional techniques, harvesting by hand and avoiding the use of weed killers and pesticides.
The winemaking philosophy is base in the respect for tradition, using dry-farmed, densely planted, traditionally trained vines, and plenty of artisan vineyard labour: regular pruning, green-harvesting, bunch-thining, and in the winery the perform spontaneous fermentations without adding any commercial yeast. With these methods, wines cannot lie, and any experienced taster should be capable of identifying these as Spanish Tempranillo based reds, almost certainly Rioja but not necessarily so. After all, the issue of typicity is their mayor concern, since they are dealing here with the westernmost section of Rioja, with a more continental climate and, therefore, with an area that is difficult to compare with the rest of the region.
- Urbina 2016 Blanco: Pale golden yellow colour with green glints. Aromatic, floral nose (acacia) with white fruit, melon and ripe citrus notes. Good body and structure, flavours of apricot, peach and some pear notes with a subtle, elegant, slightly and lingering finish. £9.45
- Urbina 2016 Rosado: Bright, delicate, pale, salmon pink colour. Dominated by aromas of red fruits including strawberry, cherry and cranberry with delicate floral notes. Excellent weight packed with summer berry fruits, strawberry, hints of grapefruit and crisp Granny Smith apples. The finish is creamy yet crisp, dry and long. A great Rioja Rosado. £9.45
- Urbina 2011/2009 Crianza: Ruby colour with garnet hues. On the nose, good intensity with elegant, mature and cherries, vanilla, coconut and spice on the nose. On the palate, well-balanced and complex, creamy smooth, velvety texture of red berries, nuts and spice flavours with firm tannins and background, good structure, long lasting, with persistent aftertaste. Pleasant and easy-drinking. £12.15
- Urbina 1999 Selección: Intense, dark ruby red colour. Very concentrated nose of berries, damsons, and figs. On the palate, full-bodied, rich fruit cake and savoury vanilla flavours, well-structured, mellow, firm tannins with the fine elegance of the Urbina marque. £15.30
- Urbina 2006/2001/1998 Reserva Especial: Dark ruby red colour with amber glints. On the nose, good intensity. It has a very pronounced nose of seductive figs, apricots, nuts, savoury vanilla oak bouquet. On the palate, voluptuous, sweet middle palate with delicious, concentrated ripe berry, mature fruit broadening out. Wonderful length, classy and complex wine. £18.67
- Urbina 2004/1995/94 Gran Reserva: Colour reddish garnet. On the nose, powerful, complex and elegant. Rich vegetable and tobacco aromas, a perfect harmony of oak and glorious fruit. On the palate, intense rich fruit, prunes, dates and sweet raisin flavours, silky and creamy. A wine with great finesse and velvet smoothness, wondrous length and full finish. £20.70
BRIDPORT (WEST DORSET - ENGLAND)
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the small River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Bridport's origins are Saxon, during the reign of King Alfred it became one of the four most important settlements in Dorset the other three being Dorchester, Shaftesbury and Wareham, with the construction of fortifications and establishment of a mint. It has a long history as a rope-making centre, though many of its buildings date from the 18th century. On the coast and within the town's boundary is West Bay, a small fishing harbour previously known as Bridport Harbour. In the 21st century Bridport's arts scene has contributed to the town becoming increasingly popular with people from outside the locality. It has an arts centre, theatre, library, cinema and museum, and several annual events. It features as Port Bredy in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels. In the 2011 census the population of Bridport's built-up area was 13,568. The town is twinned with Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, France.
Bridport's name probably derives from another location nearby. In the early 10th century the Burghal Hidage recorded the existence of a fortified centre or burh in this area, called 'Brydian', which is generally accepted as referring to Bridport. 'Brydian' means 'place at the (River) Bride', and this name may have come from an earlier burh in the Bride Valley a few miles to the east, which perhaps was abandoned or not completed in favour of the harbour site at Bridport. A probable location for an earlier burh is at Littlebredy. In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded that the town was called 'Brideport'; 'port' is Old English for a market town, thus 'Brideport' may have described the market town belonging to or associated with Bredy. At a later date, in a reversal of a more typical derivation, the town lent its name to the river on which it stood; previously this had been the River Wooth, but it became the River Brit.