Burns Night at The Farmer’s Arms

Celebrating the farmer, poet and all things rural that Robert Burns might represent, our Burns Night Party is a cut above the rest!

As Wordsworth declared in homage:

‘Whose light I hailed when first it shone,

And showed my youth

How verse may build a princely throne

On humble truth’

After three weeks of closure for maintenance, The Farmer’s Arms is reopening on the 25th of January to enjoy a three course dinner of classic Scottish dishes made using the best local ingredients. The evening will also include:

• Ceilidh, live band and caller (music and highland/barn dancing) from 8.30pm onwards
• Cocktails on a highland theme, heather, honey, seaweed, salt, raspberries, whiskey, barley and malt
• Poetry with Ilse Pedler and others – a homage to Norman Nicholson (rumour has it that The Farmer’s Arms was his favourite pub)
• DJ Country Soul and the sound of the wild – interspersed throughout the evening

Menu

Starter:

Cullen Skink – a traditional potato soup from the northeast of Scotland made with smoked haddock

OR

Celeriac Skink – a vegan take on the original made with smoked celeriac (VG)

Main:

Haggis, Neeps and Tatties – made from scratch with local ingredients

OR

Mushroom and Barley Haggis – with neeps and tatties (VG)

Dessert:

Clootie Dumpling – a traditional dried fruit dessert made of dried fruits boiled in a cloth called a ‘cloot’

OR

Cranachan layered with oats and Lawson Park fruits (VG)