The daytime menu playfully combines high- and low-brow food with inventive dishes like foie gras and cherry compote pop tarts, and biscuits and lamb sausage gravy.

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Wakefield College, as part of the Wakefield Festival of Rhubarb, has devised a dinner comprising such delicacies as rhubarb and Sauternes sorbet, and pheasant with rhubarb compote.

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The hotel's restaurant has unveiled a speedy new breakfast and lunch menu, sporting favourites like French crepes prepared with Nutella, fresh fruit and homemade compote (fruit cooked in a sauce or syrup).

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This larger space has a ludicrous amount of craft beers on tap, along with the same burger that made them famous, an applewood-smoked bacon compote covered, maytag blue and gruyere cheese smothered, caramelized onions, and arugula-topped flavour bomb.

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Scones are a must with any tea party, but he livens things up by serving them with a seasonal jam or compote such as pumpkin in fall or watermelon in the summer, alongside the standard clotted cream and strawberry jam.

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