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Branksome Beach
Well Branksome Beach – move over and let someone
else have a go at achieving
the faultless dining experience that is delivered
at this fantastic beach front restaurant! This is
an Enjoy! favourite and it never disappoints.
2007 is a real calendar landmark for the twostorey
venue. The building that has been the
restaurant’s home since 2001 is 75 years old this
year and there will be celebrations throughout
the summer, commemorating the 1932 opening
of the country’s first ‘solarium’.
Today, one can
see the ‘painted lady’ on the front and
back of
the building still representing all the solarium
stood for all those years ago! Today, instead of
sun worshipping under glass, expect a superb
dining experience for breakfast, lunch, afternoon
tea and of course, dinner. Breakfast is rather a
ritual for locals and when you are visiting the
area make an effort to be part of the experience,
it’s the best breakfast in town – to coin
a phrase
– but as you will see when you are at your table
you couldn’t be any further from the town or get
any closer to the beach and the breaking waves
while you dine. The seasonal lunch menu is a
real delight and is always accompanied by some
really inspired specials that are displayed daily
on
the blackboards either side of the open kitchen
hatch in the ground floor restaurant. The summer
lunch and dinner menu similarly comprise (apart
from the light lunch options); chicken liver parfait
and rillette of rabbit with apple chutney, baby
leaf salad and granary toast and salmon and basil
fish cakes with a red pepper and pine nut relish
or balsamic roast beetroot mousse served with a
goat’s cheese and watercress salad and a foccacia
crouton. For your main course choose between
the favourite Branksome Beach Burger (lunch
only) an 8oz 100% Aberdeen Angus beef burger.
This is served on a foccacia
bun with tomato and
pickle salad, hand cut chips (delicious) and home
made tomato relish. Pan-fried skate wing with
broad beans, peas and red chard, ratte potatoes
with garlic and thyme butter or slow-cooked belly
of Tamworth pork with Scrumpy cider, honey and
ginger sauce with cashew nut and coriander rice.
The salads are wonderful and as mouth-watering
as the hardier dishes – the Enjoy favourite being
the seared tuna carpaccio with a pickled vegetable
and noodle salad with a soy and ginger dressing –
for a lighter lunch choose a Branksome Beach club
sandwich or eggs Florentine. The desserts are as
tasty as the other dishes – have you ever wondered
why the desserts don’t come first on a menu?
The Branksome Beach sweets prove the theory
behind the practice – as you would never get
further through the menu as they are all irresistible!
Choose from blueberry and orange cheesecake
with vanilla shortbread, raspberry trifle or the
white
chocolate chip brownie! As you can tell, the menu
is exceptional and is only enhanced by the
performance of the team that is under the direction
of Nadine Frost, she really has got it right here,
the
service is slick and seamless with good impartial
advice on side orders, wines and knowledge of all
of the dishes on offer – even the specials – as
all of
the staff are invited to try the menu seasonally
so
their recommendations are from the heart! Make
a date at Branksome Beach – enjoy one of the
summer barbecues upstairs on the first floor terrace
and bar – a glass of Champagne as the sun sets
to the west or a delightful meal with loved ones,
friends, family or work colleagues.
This restaurant has it all.
Pinecliff Road, Branksome Chine, Poole
Booking is essential
Open all year round.
01202 767235
www.branksomebeach.co.uk
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