Following 2011’s sold out, inaugural play, the House, Sports & Social Committee are pleased to announce another evening of live theatre, this year to commemorate the sinking of the Titanic.

The disaster that was the sinking of the Titanic occurred on the night of April 14/15 1912. It was not only the worst maritime accident in history with the loss of over fifteen hundred people but it also heralded the end of an era.

A small group of local people (including one of our members – Dick Mackenzie) has formed a company limited by guarantee to commission (with the support of the Arts Council) a number of new works for a festival of creative arts in the week leading up to the 100th anniversary of the loss of the Titanic.

This Festival seeks to reflect the creative energy that drove the people of Belfast in the first decade of the twentieth century in industrial terms and which now continues to permeate the arts in this small part of the world.

The Festival will comprise a play about emigration in the Lyric Theatre; a specially commissioned song cycle to be performed in the Public Record Office in Titanic Quarter; an art exhibition in the Golden Thread Theatre; a new “Requiem for the lost souls of the Titanic” in St. Anne’s Cathedral by local composer – Philip Hammond; and a one man play to be performed in the Barge beside the Waterfront Hall.

This newly commissioned one-man play will be from the pen of one of the leading Titanic experts, James Wilson Foster, formerly Professor of English in the University of British Columbia, who has in retirement moved back to his native Northern Ireland.  

This play will be his first essay on stage and will be based on the last hour of Thomas Andrews, the designer of Titanic and a member of the Ulster Reform Club who was lost in the tragedy. His memorial is on the wall of the third level landing of the Club. The play will be staged by Kabosh the Belfast-based, multi-award winning theatre company.

Supper menu

Beef & wild Mushroom Pie with a rich Red Wine Jus

&

Goujons of fresh Plaice, Cod & Salmon

In a crispy Tempura Batter, with a roasted Sun-blush Tomato & Chive Sauce

Vegetable fried Rice

Peppered Scallop Potatoes

A selection of freshly prepared Salads & home-made Breads

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

served with hand-rolled Truffles

Dress: Black Tie

‘by ticket only’

£30 per person, including play & supper

Ms Barker has been Britain’s leading female sports presenter for the past two decades, having made a seamless transition from top tennis player to the world of broadcasting.

Based in California, her playing career began in 1973 and within three years she had risen to number 3 in the World Rankings, having won the 1976 French Open and, in 1977, she reached the semi-finals of both Wimbledon and, for the second time in two years, the Australian Open. She played her last professional match in 1984 having won 11 singles and 12 doubles titles and joined Channel 7 in Australia in 1985 as a commentator and reporter before moving to British Sky Broadcasting in 1990 and then, in 1993, to the BBC.

Sue has become established as the main presenter for Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments and has anchored the BBC’s coverage of Summer and Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games, World and European Athletics Championships and the Grand National and the Derby. Currently the presenter of A Question of Sport on BBC television, Sue has been one of the main presenters for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year for fifteen years.

This will be her second visit to the Club and, given the reception she received eight years ago, book early to avoid disappointment!  

Menu

Broccoli & Cashel Blue Cheese Soup

with crispy Parma Ham & Crusty Bread

Prime Smoked, French-trimmed Irish Bacon Loin Chop

Char-grilled & served on Wok-fried Greens

with a Button Mushroom & Drambuie Sauce

Chef’s selection of Vegetables and Potatoes

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

£25.50 per person

‘By ticket only’

The House, Sports & Social Committee are pleased to announce the opening of the Club on St Patrick’s Day. This year we will be showing live, on two plasma televisions, in the Old Billiard Room:

• Italy v Scotland, Kick off - 12.30pm
• Wales v France, Kick off - 2.45pm
• England v Ireland, Kick off - 5pm

The Club will open from noon, with bar last orders at 7.30pm. The pie lunches will be served 3pm through 4.30pm.

£10 per person, to include Pie & a large Guinness

‘by ticket only’

Dress: casual

The House, Sports & Social Committee has organised a trip for this 6-Nations International.

The Kick Off is 1.30pm, therefore the plan is to leave Belfast by coach, arriving at the Stephens Green Hibernian Club (SGHC) in time for breakfast rolls and coffee. Then off to the Aviva Stadium for the match, returning to the SGHC for a late buffet lunch, then back to Belfast later that evening.

£120.00 per person, including match ticket

Dress: casual

 ‘By ticket only’

Aperitif

La Casada Pinot Grigio Rose, Veneto, Italy

Menu

Pan-fried cured Irish Salmon

served on a Fricassee of Peas with Lemon Foam & Baby Herbs

Man Vintners Sauvignon Blanc, Stellenbosch, South Africa 

Roasted Sweet Potato & Pancetta Soup

with toasted Pumpkin Seeds and a Kale & Pecorino Pesto

Char-grilled Shorthorn Organic Beef Fillet

wild Mushrooms gratinated with Kearney Blue Cheese

& an Oxtail Jus

Finca La Estacada 6 months oak, Ucles, Spain

&

Martín Códax Música en El Camino, Rioja, Spain

Selection of finest Cheeses

Triple Chocolate & Espresso Tart

with Chocolate Caramel Syrup

& Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

Campbells Rutherglen Muscat N.V. Half Bottle, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee, with hand-rolled Truffles

Dress: Smart Casual

£50 per person including a glass of La Casada Pinot Grigio Rose, gourmet dinner and wines presented at each course by Peter McAlindon of McAlindon Wines/Direct Wine Shipments.

‘By ticket only’

SOLD OUT

SOLD OUT

Home-baked Sugar & Honey-glazed Ulster Gammon

&

platters of roast Mustard-glazed Co Antrim Turkey accompanied by a

freshly made Cranberry & Red Onion Chutney

Chef’s selection of freshly prepared Salads and home-baked Breads

Traditional Christmas Pudding with hot Brandy Sauce

or

Chocolate & Rum Trifle

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee, Mince Pies with Brandy Butter

£25pp inclusive of a welcoming glass on arrival of

Segura Viudas Brut Reserva Sparkling Wine

‘By ticket only’

Menu

Oven-baked Field Mushroom with a smoked Bacon,

Cranberry & Thyme Stuffing with fresh Rocket &

a warmed Mushroom Cream

Christmas Consommé served with Toast Melba

Roast Stuffed Turkey & Co Antrim Gammon

with Bacon-wrapped Chipolatas and a Turkey & Port Wine Gravy

Chef’s seasonal Market Vegetables & Potatoes

Traditional Christmas Pudding with Brandy Sauce

or

Individual Pavlova with whipped Vanilla Cream & seasonal Berries

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

with Mince Pies

£25 per person including pre-luncheon drinks

‘By ticket only’

Having completed the Christmas shopping why not take a little time at the Club to relax, unwind and enjoy a splendid and succulent Dinner especially prepared by our Head Chef , Tom McCluney, available from 5.30pm. Meals served as per member’s desired dining time, which will be noted when your reservation is made, last orders 8.15pm.

The Belfast Blitz, Easter  1941

2011 marks the Seventieth Anniversary of the bombing of Belfast by the German Luftwaffe. Belfast was a prime target with the shipyard at Harland and Wolff building many vessels for the Royal Navy, Short Brothers constructing the Sunderland flying boat and Mackie’s machining the Bofors anti-aircraft shells. Other companies and linen mills also made an important contribution to the Allied war effort in aircraft parts, glider frames, gun mountings and ammunition. In short, with an enviable tradition particularly in engineering and textiles Belfast clearly was a suitable bombing target for the German Air Force.

Our invited guest speaker is Dr. Ian Adamson OBE a former Lord Mayor of Belfast (1996-1997), Assembly Member and continues today to be a member of Belfast City Council. Dr. Adamson has specialized in pediatric medicine and is presently physician and Special Advisor on History and Culture to Rev Ian Paisley (now Lord Bannside).

Dr. Adamson has written several books on Ulster history and has particular interest in the Battle of the Somme of which he is the Founding Chairman and matters relating to our Ulster-Scots heritage. He has recently written the Forward, in conjunction with the Belfast Telegraph, for the book, “Bombs over Belfast, The Blitz 1941”. Dr. Adamson is also a fellow member of the Ulster Reform Club.  

Despite being informed by imperial defence experts that Belfast was to be a certain Luftwaffe target Belfast was totally unprepared for the forthcoming horror. There were inadequate public shelters, some barrage balloons and not enough anti-aircraft batteries to protect a densely packed population. Unlike other British cities there had been no organized plan to evacuate children, numbering almost 100,000 remaining in Belfast.

Dr. Adamson will give a background prior to the Blitz, the lack of government preparation and the subsequent human and industrial cost. In the aftermath, he will discuss the southern reaction from Dublin and that of Eamon de Valera, the Irish Prime Minister. The German response and that of Joseph Goebbles, Minister of Propaganda will also be interpreted.    

Menu

Roast Butternut Squash Soup

with Basil Crème Fraiche & freshly baked Brioche Bread

French-trimmed Pork Loin Chop

char-grilled & served with Forestière Sauce

Chef’s selection of Vegetables and Potatoes

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

£25.50 per person

BY TICKET ONLY

A ballot will be held in favour of the Royal British Legion.

Format

A service of remembrance will be held by the War Memorials in the Reading Room at 11am, on Friday, 11^th November led by the Very Reverend Dr Hugh Kennedy.

Tea, coffee and freshly baked scones will be available in the Members’ Bar from 9.30am.

Medals may be worn

Format Reception drink, 6-course dinner, wine with meal, auction and ballot all hosted by Mr Jim Neilly

Fergus Slattery

Regarded as one of world rugby’s greatest back-row forwards, Fergus made his international debut, aged 20, in Ireland’s drawn game against South Africa in 1970, going on to win 61 Irish caps, 17 as captain, in a career that spanned 14 seasons. A former pupil of Blackrock College, and a graduate of UCD, he captained Ireland to a test series victory in Australia in 1979, the first time that feat had been achieved by any of the Northern Hemisphere countries, and was captain again two years later when Ireland lost both tests in South Africa by narrow margins.

A member of the outstanding Lions squad to New Zealand in 1971, injury prevented him from playing in the test side but three years later in South Africa, he was a key member of the Lions side that won the test series, going through the entire tour unbeaten. Although approached about his availability for subsequent Lions tours, Slattery declined, concentrating on playing for Blackrock, Leinster and Ireland whom he helped to a Triple Crown in 1982 and a Five Nations Championship in 1983. Inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2007, he is in great demand as an after-dinner speaker, combining his outstanding anecdotal wit with his skills as a professional auctioneer in supporting major charities in Ireland and beyond. 

Menu

Pan-fried Fillet of Turbot

set on Garden Peas & Morel Mushrooms

with a truffled Vanilla & Lemon Foam

Beef & Vegetable Broth

Char-grilled Best End Lamb Cutlets

set on a caramelised White Onion Mousseline

with a Port Wine, Marjoram & Blackberry Jus

Selection of finest Cheeses

Deep-filled Lemon Tart

with fresh Raspberries, Passion Fruit Sorbet & Crème de Cassis Fruit Coulis

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

Dress: Black Tie

Drinks Reception: from 7pm

Dinner: 7.45pm

£60 per person

BY TICKET ONLY

A limited number of tables have been designated for corporate use

at 8/10 per table with the remainder for Club Members and their guests.

This evening is now established as the Club’s primary fund raising event and demand for tickets, we have no doubt, will be at a premium.

Luigi Bosca Wines

Luigi Bosca was founded in 1901 when Saturnino Arizu purchased a flour mill so as to convert it to use as a winery. Today the extensive subterranean tunnels used to bring water from the Mendoza river to operate the water-mill are now used as dark cellars where wine reposes, achieving its optimum maturation.

In 1984, Luigi Bosca`s wines entered the international market. The Arizu family aims to keeps its traditional values of quality and prestige that have been cultivated over the last 100 years. They add new elements of innovation and technology to offer the best wines of Argentina. They have a number of vineyards in prime bits of Mendoza. In all, the Luigi Bosca estate has around 400 hectares of vines in Luyán de Cujo and Maipú.

"Luigi Bosca is one of Argentina’s quality leaders." (Jay Miller, Wine Advocate # 180 Dec 2008)

"one of Argentina’s oldest and most respected family-owned wineries." (Sandra Silfven, The Wine Report, Detroit)

Once again this will be a wonderful evening for Members to bring their friends and guests to show off the Club in a very cordial and relaxed musical atmosphere.

Supper Menu

Beef Bourguignon &

Lemon Sole deep-fried in Tempura Batter

served with Salsa Rosso

Chef’s freshly prepared Salads & Breads

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee served with hand-rolled Truffles

Dress: smart casual

£22pp including hot buffet supper & tasting wines

BY TICKET ONLY

The Hilton Templepatrick 18 Hole Golf Course was designed by David Jones and David Feharty and has been acclaimed as one of Northern Ireland’s finest courses. In fact, the Hilton plays host to the Ulster PGA in mid September 2011. The layout allows for over 7,000 yards of challenging fairways and greens interspersed with lakes and mature parkland.

Ulster Reform Club Members may compete for the Stirling Cup, first presented to the Club on St. Patrick’s Day 1925 by JH Stirling and played for annually ever since. This is an excellent opportunity for Club Members to entertain guests in fourballs or simply to come along and play with other Members. There will also be visitors’ prizes and a competition for the longest drive and nearest the pin.

The cover price of £65 will include a pre-golf snack, golf, dinner and prizes. Allocated times will be advised one week before the event by email. Please contact the General Office to reserve your places and advise on handicaps.  

The Club is planning a unique series of dining experiences for its Members and their guests over the next few years. Put behind you previous notions of gourmet evenings, fine dining events, taster menus et cetera! At the suggestion of the House, Sports & Social Committee, and under the banner of A Celtic Fringe Food Festival, the Club is to host a number of unique dinners that will celebrate the best of local produce. To accompany the bills of fare, we will also have entertainment and informed narrative to enhance the overall experience. The ambience will be entirely focused on quality and style.

The inaugural event is scheduled for Thursday 22^nd September with the emphasis firmly on the best that Northern Ireland can produce.  Northern Ireland producers are now sending high class produce around the globe, such is the reputation of their distinctive brands. Long gone are the Saturday nights of Egg Mayonnaise, Chicken Maryland and Sherry Trifle washed down with a carafe of Blue Nun! [Apologies, at this stage, to those Members from Ballyclare who are reading this in a confused state of mind!]  In the months ahead, we are planning similar events with the emphasis moving to other Nations that make up this wonderful diverse area, each with their own unique and original fare.

Hosted by Chef Nick Price, Chair of Taste of Ulster, who will guide us through the several courses and the rationale of the menu, we are looking forward to a memorable evening of gastronomic and epicurean delights. Head Chef Tom McCluney and his team are already excited about preparing a menu that will embrace regional game, king scallops, pork belly, artisan soup, Ulster lamb, Bramley apples, indigent cheeses, Wines with a local connection will also be able to be purchased on the evening.

And if that weren’t enough ... there will be music and the spoken word to complement the good things on the plates and in our glasses. Others have talked about a Feast for the Senses, but we’re aiming to set new standards in what we believe is the finest Dining Room in Belfast City Centre.

Please plan to bring your friends to support the inaugural event in this exciting new venture. Tickets will be allocated strictly on a first come - first served basis.

Menu

Ballotine of local Game with Bushmills & Prunes,

Bramble Relish & Herb Toast    (County Antrim)

Pan-seared Irish King Scallop   (County Londonderry)

with slow-cooked smoked Pork Belly (County Fermanagh),

Pea Purée & Bacon Foam

Roasted Celeriac, Comber Potato & White Onion Soup

Spinach Clandeboye Yoghurt (County Down)

Lamb Plate

Herb-crusted Fillet/breaded Braised Shoulder/ Lamb Stew / Shepherds Pie (Sperrin Lamb County Tyrone)

Tasting of Apple

Armagh Bramley Apple Jelly, Compote, Sorbet & Apple Tuile (County Armagh)

Ulster Cheeseboard(Boilie/ Cooneen/ Dale Farm Extra Mature and Nicks)

Red Onion & Cider Relish and Celery & Black Pepper Biscuits

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

£50 per person

Dress: Smart Casual

Timing: 7 for 7.30pm

BY TICKET ONLY

postponed until early 2012

This will be an informal BBQ-style event and an inexpensive and fun opportunity for Members to bring along guests on what will hopefully be

a traditionally beautiful NI summer’s evening.

Dress: Smart Casual

£25.50 PER PERSON to include Peroni Beer & BBQ available from 7pm

After the success of the Club’s 2010 event at Down Royal the House, Sports & Social Committee has this year reserved a Private Suite for the Derby Day Summer Festival at Down Royal, Maze, Lisburn.

The package includes:

-  Entrance to the Racecourse

-  Luxury Private Suite, including Passes

-  Racecard to check the runners & riders

-  Tote betting service to the suite

-  Finger Buffet

NB: The suite’s maximum capacity is

20 attendees, both Members and guests

are welcome.

This is all in the new hospitality pavilion which is decorated to a very high standard and is equipped with flat screen TVs and private pay bar.

£87.50 per person

Belfast in the early 1900’s was a thriving, industrial, confident City. It’s most important shipbuilding firm, Harland and Wolff, ensured that Belfast had already the largest shipbuilding yard in Europe, frequently launching the world’s greatest annual tonnage.

On Wednesday 31st May 1911, Belfast celebrated the launch of the biggest man-made floating object in the world, RMS Titanic. The vessel was almost 300 yards long, over 30 yards wide, from top to bottom had ten decks, with a displacement of 60,000 tons held together by three million rivets.

The House, Sports & Social Committee welcome you and your guests to a celebratory dinner 100 years to the exact date of the launch of this “mammoth and marvelous machine”.

Our very special Speaker for the evening is Club Member - Una Reilly, Chairperson of the Belfast Titanic Society and advisor to Belfast City Council on all matters Titanic. Una will describe and celebrate the unique technological achievement that was in the ship’s design and construction with reference in particular to

Mr Thomas Andrews, Chief Architect and fellow member of the Ulster Reform Club.

The occasion will be an acknowledgement of the skill and craftsmanship of the shipyard workers at all levels, a part of our proud maritime history.

Menu

Trio of smoked Fish

Oak-smoked Salmon,

Trout & Lough Neagh Eel,

pickled Vegetables &

Horseradish Crème Fraiche

served with freshly-baked Wheaten

Vichyssoise with Truffle Oil

Lamb cooked Two Ways

Pan-fried Best-end & braised

Shoulder Hash

Champ, roast glazed Carrots,

Port Wine Gravy

home-made Mint Sauce

Macedoine of Summer Fruits set in Champagne Jelly

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

with Bushmills Whisky Truffles

Dress: Black Tie

£55 per person

including reception drink & dinner

The Shoot will be run in conjunction with the PSNI CPC, the proceeds this year again divided between them (to assist them participate in the World Police & Fire Games and prepare for the Games coming to Northern Ireland in 2013) and URC. We are delighted that Cunningham Coates Stockbrokers have again already committed their support and assistance.

The venue will be Hollow Farm Shooting Grounds, Comber, followed by a meal and prize giving at the PSNI Athletics Association Club, Newforge Lane, Belfast.

For the Novice Class there will be tuition and coaching, with guns on loan, if required. For the more experienced Guns in the Regular Class, a combination of a Sporting and Skeet layout will be used. Competitors will be placed in teams of five, or Members may enter a team.

There will be prizes for the top scoring team, individual Gun – Member & guest, Best in Class prizes and possibly wooden spoons!

This will be an ideal opportunity for Members to try this exciting sport under expert guidance and for the more competitive Members to shoot for the glory of receiving the Wylie Trophy, upon which their name will be engraved for posterity.

£50 per person, includes clay pigeons, cartridges, meal & prizes

Dress-Casual

Dinner-7.30pm

We would encourage as many participates as possible to bring their own firearm.

Prime Rib of Beef with a Gravy of natural roast Juices & traditional Yorkshire Pudding

The occasion provides an opportunity for lady members, and any guests they may wish to bring along, to meet together and enjoy the relaxed atmosphere and fine dining in the Club.  The lunch also offers a useful opportunity to discuss ideas for future events of interest to ladies.

Please put the 5^th May in your diary and join us for lunch.  The format is to meet up in the bar from 12.30pm onwards, with lunch at 1pm at a reserved table in the Dining Room.  If you wish to come along please contact the office by phone or email (as the Club needs to know numbers), then simply turn up.  Each member will be responsible for their own bill in the normal way.

Further information, if needed, can be obtained from Lorna or Christina in the office.

Our first production will be

happenstance theatre company’s

The Boat Factory

with Dan Gordon and Michael Condron

The Boat Factory (All the Queen’s Men) is a new play written by award-winning local actor and presenter Dan Gordon, and based on his personal experience of growing up around the east Belfast shipyard. This unique and innovative project aims to tell stories which reflect our lives and engender a sense of pride in our shipbuilding heritage, and to perform these stories at the very heart of the community - in schools, clubs, community centres, parochial halls, and prisons – in Belfast and Northern Ireland.

2^nd of July 1945: World War II is in its final throes and the Cold War is about to begin; Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly star in ‘Anchors Aweigh’ and in Belfast’s Harland and Wolff Titanic Shipyard, preparations are made for a post-war world. Regarded as the biggest and best there is, there’s a power station, docks, machine shops, engine works and saw mills. If you can dream it – they can build it! Painters, plumbers, riveters, joiners, coppersmiths, fitters, burners, electricians, riggers and shipwrights: there were sixty seven different trades and nearly 200 acres of land; 1700 ships built between here and the Clyde and 35,000 men employed at its height.

This is their story.

As an actor Dan Gordon is probably best known for his portrayal of loveable??? Psychopath – Red Hand Luke in 10 series of the BBC NI television programme Give My Head Peace. In Theatre his performance in the one man show A Night in November by Marie Jones was a major contribution to the Irish stage. He has a long Theatrical career and has garnered many plaudits, awards and nominations along the way, including – TMA – Irish Times – Belfast Telegraph EMA – Glasgow Herald Paper Boat and Broadway Outer Critics Circle Award.

Michael Condron was born in Toronto and now lives in Belfast. Some previous Theatre credits include: John Bull’s Other Island, Santa Claus...What The Reindeer Saw, Much Ado About nothing, Charlotte’s Web, Xmas Eve Can Kill You (all at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

Supper menu

Beef & wild Mushroom Pie with a rich Red Wine Jus

&

Goujons of fresh Plaice, Cod & Salmon

In a crispy Tempura Batter, with a roasted Sun-blush Tomato & Chive Sauce

Vegetable fried Rice

Peppered Scallop Potatoes

A selection of freshly prepared Salads & home-made Breads

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

served with hand-rolled Truffles

Dress: Smart Casual

£30 Per Person, including play & supper

BY TICKET ONLY

Neville Isdell was born in Downpatrick County Down on June 8^th, 1943. He attended Somerton House (Preparatory School for Belfast High) before leaving Belfast at ten years of age when his family moved to Zambia, which was then northern Rhodesia. His third level education was completed at the University of Cape Town. He joined the Coca-Cola Company in 1966 with the local bottling company in Zambia. After a number of key management assignments in South Africa, Australia, The Philippines and Germany he was named President of the greater Europe Group in 1995.

From 1998 to 2000, he served as Chairman and CEO of Coca Cola Beverages Plc in Great Britain. Then in June 2004, Neville was called out of retirement to lead The Coca- Cola Company as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Building on an incredibly rich and successful history, Neville took the world’s largest beverage company to new heights during his tenure. His efforts resulted in The Coca Cola Company’s return to Fortune’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” list in 2006. In 2009, the company moved up to the 12^th spot in the global ranking.

After forty three years in the Coca-Cola organization, Neville retired in April 2009, providing a seamless transition to his successor.

Amongst his many awards and accolades Neville is a recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award, he is Chairman of the International Business Leaders Forum and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree in Economics from Queen’s University Belfast.

Neville is a much sought after speaker at events worldwide and we are very fortunate that he has accepted the President’s invitation to be his guest at this year’s dinner. This unique opportunity for Members to hear from a gentleman who has run a company of the size, scale and stature of Coca-Cola, and one who originated from Northern Ireland, where he still has family connections should make for a most interesting evening.

MENU:
White Fish & Herb Dumpling with Local Shellfish in a Tomato & Shellfish Broth served with freshly-baked Focaccia Bread

Truffled Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Parmesan Croutons

Lemon & Lime Sorbet with candied Lemon

Cannon of Dry-aged Hereford Sirloin With a cracked Black Pepper & Herb Crust, sweet Potato Purée & an Oxtail & Guinness Jus

Finest Irish Cheeses

Assiette of Chocolate

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee

After dinner, Members may retire to the Members’ Bar and Snooker Room.

Dress: Black Tie,

£55 per person, including reception drink, six-course dinner and wine with meal.

BY TICKET ONLY

Menu

Fresh Irish Mushrooms flambéed in Brandy served on Garlic Brioche Toast

Cerrosal Verdejo 2009, Rueda

Roast Celeriac & smoked Bacon Soup with Parmesan Croutons & Basil Pesto

Cerrosal Verdejo 2009, Rueda

Fresh fillet of Turbot pan-fried, served with roast Garlic Mash, Curly Kale

& truffled Lemon Cream

Pleno Tempranillo 2009, Navarra

Selection of finest Cheeses

Vinedos McAlindon e Hijos Creu Celta 2006, Priorat

New vintage – just voted one of the top 100 Spanish Wines imported into the U.K.!

Deep-filled Lemon & Passionfruit Tart with homemade Raspberry Ice Cream

Sol de Alicante Moscatel – Alicante (not on list)

Freshly ground & brewed Coffee, with hand-rolled Truffles

Dress: Smart Casual

£50 per person including a Rioja Vega Rosado reception, gourmet dinner and fine Spanish wines tutored and presented at each course by Neal McAlindon & Peter Gilfedder of McAlindon Wines.

BY TICKET ONLY

Format - Drinks reception from 7.15pm, Gourmet Dinner will commence at 7.45pm, with our roaming romantic accordionist Ivan Black. After the meal there will be live music from the Siobhan Pettit Quartet. McAlindon Wines have kindly arranged for a range of Spanish wines, some from the Club’s Wine List to be presented with each course.