{"id":10497,"date":"2010-07-18T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T18:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2021-11-01T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:55:22","slug":"the-sportsman-fresh-from-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10497","title":{"rendered":"The Sportsman &#8211; Fresh from the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"The Sportsman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesportsmanseasalter.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sportsman<\/a> in Whitstable is a destination restaurant, well a Michelin starred\u00a0gastro pub with quite a reputation.\u00a0 Do not even think about going there to eat without an advance reservation.<\/p>\n<p>They pride themselves on their fresh ingredients. Everything is either from the garden out back or from nearby, its all about\u00a0provenance here.\u00a0 On the whole the pride is justified as the ingredients especially the fish and vegetables are really fresh and the cooking shows them off.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-10497 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010890.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010890-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010899.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010924.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010924-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010930.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tn_P1010930-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We treated ourselves to some Pol Roger Champagne and started on the\u00a0tasting menu (something you need to pre book or alternatively you can order from the dishes on the blackboard by the bar). We started with some pork scratchings, and to quote &#8220;Steve&#8221; the chef, the Sportsman is a pub after all.\u00a0 They were nothing like typical pub pork scratchings, they were delicious, as was the mustard, herring and soda bread they were served with.<\/p>\n<p>We had a very nice salad (Salmagundy, which apparently means a salad made out of available ingredients), but the standout courses\u00a0were the dover sole with\u00a0seaweed butter\u00a0and the turbot with smoked roe sauce.\u00a0 Our conclusion was that\u00a0the meal started well and that the fish dishes were excellent, but that the quality dipped with the 2nd lamb dish (some mash would have been nice)\u00a0and the desserts (can\u00a0chefs get over\u00a0popping candy please).<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed the meal but I must say I wasn&#8217;t as wowed by it as some other reviewers.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and we finished off the day with a nice jug of Pimms at <a title=\"Miles Cafe Culture\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=304 \" target=\"_self\">Miles Cafe Culture<\/a> in Ramsgate in case you were\u00a0wondering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sportsman in Whitstable is a destination restaurant, well a Michelin starred\u00a0gastro pub with quite a reputation.\u00a0 Do not even think about going there to eat without an advance reservation. They pride themselves on their fresh ingredients. Everything is either from the garden out back or from nearby, its all about\u00a0provenance here.\u00a0 On the whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sportsman &#8211; Fresh from the garden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,185,238,8],"tags":[52,353],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-michelin-star","category-bars-and-gastropubs","category-kent","category-uk","tag-miles-cafe-culture","tag-the-sportsman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30030,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/30030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}