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Christmas at Gonville Hotel

Christmas at Gonville Hotel

The Gonville Hotel Christmas 2023 dining and events programme

Gonville Hotel offers the perfect setting for a memorable Christmas and New Year. Whether you’re looking to celebrate in style with colleagues or relax and unwind with your family, we’ve created a programme with something for everyone.

Join us to enjoy;

Christmas Packages
Christmas Group Bookings
Festive Afternoon Tea
Luxurious Christmas Day Lunch
Boxing Day Family Feast
New Years Eve Jazz

Our team are here to look after every single detail this festive period, so all you need to do is book your table.

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Christmas in Cambridge

2 or 3 night festive stay packages

Enjoy spending Christmas in our award winning, historic and beautifully appointed, AA 4 Silver Star Hotel. Click the link below to view our available packages for Christmas 2023.

See our Christmas Stay Packages

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Christmas Group Bookings

Enjoy a festive gathering with colleagues, friends or family for an outstanding Christmas celebration in our Atrium Restaurant or in our beautiful Après Ski themed marquee.

Enjoy a delicious three course meal from our Christmas Group menu


To start

Chicken and duck liver terrine with house chutney, salad, and brioche bread

Confit salmon with compressed cucumber, a cucumber and tomato consommé topped with a dill oil

Wild mushroom, Jerusalem artichoke and truffle soup with artichoke crisps

Bresaola with a rocket pesto, balsamic glaze, parmesan foam and a lemon and olive oil dressing

 

Main Course

Roasted turkey crown with sage and onion stuffing, honey roasted parsnip purée and a turkey gravy

Roasted beef sirloin, spouting broccoli, broccoli purée and a red wine jus

Onion squash, tarragon and parmesan wellington, squash puree and roasted hispi cabbage

Pan roasted cod loin, potato puree and a champagne, chive and trout roe sauce

All mains served with a side of roast potatoes, vegetables, pigs in blankets and Yorkshire puddings on the side.

 

Sweet Treats

Traditional Christmas pudding with brandy sauce seasonal fruits and sorbet

A selection of cheeses with crackers, chutney, celery and apple

Chocolate panettone bread and butter pudding with a boozy crème anglaise

 

Finished with teas & coffee


£55 per person

Jubilee Afternoon Tea

Festive Afternoon Tea

Join us for a festive twist on a traditional afternoon tea. Served in our Terrace restaurant from Wednesday to Sunday beginning Wednesday 29th November (excludes Christmas Day and Boxing Day).


Sandwiches and savouries

Roast turkey, cranberry and sage and onion stuffing on white bread

Slice of chicken terrine on grilled sourdough with chutney

Roasted Norfolk sirloin with horseradish on brown bread

Smoked salmon and crème fraîche tartlet

 

Vegetarian and vegan sandwiches and savouries

Vegan BLT

Sage and onion stuffing with cranberry on white bread

Egg and watercress on brioche

Hummus and grilled vegetables on grilled sourdough

Wild mushroom, truffle and Parmesan arancini

 

Sweet Treats

Paris-Brest with praline cream

Spiced chocolate mouse

Macaroon snowman filled with a chestnut ganache Christmas chocolate Bon Bon

Scones accompanied by jam and Devonshire clotted cream


Afternoon tea £32 | with Prosecco £40 | with Champagne £44

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Luxurious Christmas Day Lunch

Take the stress out of this Christmas and let us do the cooking. Join us between 12:30pm – 3pm to indulge and enjoy the full Christmas Day experience. A sumptuous meal with all the trimmings created by our Head Chef Jamie De Cruz.

SOLD OUT


Amuse-bouche

Marinated Nocellara olives

Rockefeller Mersey oysters

Wild mushroom parfait bruschetta

Oak Smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis with Exmoor Caviar

Local wholemeal sourdough with a cultured Jersey butter

To Start

Smoked Norfolk chicken and duck liver terrine, wild mushroom ketchup, winter truffle brioche

 

Fish Course

Pan seared Atlantic cod with steamed Palourde clams, Jerusalem artichokes and salsify

Meat Course

Norfolk Beef wellington served with a Pommes Anna, Brussel sprouts and a bordelaise sauce

Sweet Treat

70% dark chocolate and pistachio tart with a white chocolate and spruce ice cream

Petit Four

Christmas pudding bonbons

 

Tea & Coffee with shortbread biscuit

Boxing Day Family Feast

Why not escape the city with a drive out to the Fens or a visit to the picturesque village of Grantchester located just a few miles outside of Cambridge then head to Gonville Hotel for our Boxing Day 4 Course sit down meal from 12pm (Vegetarian option available).


To Start

Turkey and stuffing scotch egg with a cranberry chutney

Festive soup of the day with local sourdough bread

Confit Salmon with compressed cucumber, cucumber and tomato consommé and a dill oil

Bresaola with a rocket pesto, balsamic glaze, parmesan foam and a lemon and olive oil dressing

 

Main Course

Roast Norfolk sirloin of beef

Roasted belly of pork from Haddenham

Onion squash, tarragon and parmesan wellington, squash puree,

Roasted hispi cabbage

Fish of the day

 

All mains served with roast potatoes, vegetables, pigs in blankets and Yorkshire puddings on the side

Sweet Treats

Seasonal fruits and sorbet

Cheese selection with crackers, chutney, celery and apple

Chocolate Panettone bread and butter pudding with a boozy crème anglaise

70% dark chocolate and pistachio tart with a white chocolate and spruce ice cream

Sunday Roast
New Years Eve at Gonville Hotel

New Year’s Eve Jazz

Why not make your New Year’s Eve a memorable one at the home of Jazz in Cambridge with Music starting at 6.30pm and will finish 9.30pm.

Enjoy a cocktail and the smooth sounds of our piano, bass and sax between our lounge and restaurant. Our Terrace Restaurant will be open as normal from 6pm until 9.15pm.

Join us this Christmas

Get in touch with us to book a Christmas party, enquire about Christmas day or for any other festive enquiry.

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To make an overnight reservation, please call reception on 01223 366611 or book online.

For restaurant reservations, group bookings and parties over the festive period, please use the form above, call 01223 366611 or email sales@gonvillehotel.co.uk.

We look forward to seeing you this season!

 

Christmas at Gonville Hotel

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