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Two special ways to propose this Valentine’s Day

27th January 2013 Print
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Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Bowness-on-Windermere is re-creating the essence of Shakespeare’s words: “If music be the food of love, play on”, by offering those wooing their partner on Valentine’s Day both romance-fuelled food and amazing ways to propose or express their feelings through food and music.

A five-course Valentine’s menu will be served in the newly redecorated dining room, where a music theme now runs through both décor and furnishings. It also contains the piano on which Sir Paul McCartney issued one of his marriage proposals. This was bequeathed to Lake District Summer Music, who asked the hotel to house it a few years ago.

To add to the Valentine’s excitement, Lindeth Howe, a property once owned by Beatrix Potter, is offering diners booking for February 14 two ways to express their love. The first is by tweeting their sweet bite-size style, by having up to 25 characters piped on to a dessert by the Lindeth Howe kitchen, if arranged in advance.

The second option is for any hotel guest who can tickle the ivories, as Lindeth Howe will allow them to pre-arrange to play at the piano, in private, at a suitable time during their stay at the hotel and follow Paul McCartney’s lead by proposing to their loved one from the piano.

The Valentine’s menu at the hotel, which overlooks Lake Windermere, is the perfect accompaniment to all of this. Diners will begin their culinary journey with an amuse bouche of leek and potato velouté with poached oyster. This will be followed by starters of either venison carpaccio, plum tomato terrine, grilled Scottish mackerel fillet, green asparagus pannacotta, organic poached egg on a smoked salmon rose, or a warm duck leg confit.

The palate will then be sharpened with a champagne and strawberry sorbet, before the main course is served Diners will here have a choice of roast Cumbrian pork trilogy, pan fried seabass fillet, potato gnocchi with wild mushrooms and wilted spinach, roast chicken ballotine, pan fried beef medallion or pavé of salmon.

Trilogies are a speciality of executive chef, Marc Guibert, who also achieved a world record by creating the world’s most expensive dessert.

Dessert choices are strawberry mousse with a heart-shaped shortbread biscuit, coconut crème brulée, light lemon quenelles and sponge, chocolate mousse or a selection of English farmhouse cheeses.

Lindeth Howe’s hotel general manager, Alison Magee-Barker says: “We have created really unique ways of proposing and are sure that these, along with Marc’s incredible menu, will tempt people to Lindeth Howe for their Valentine’s meal. We hope to see several proposals taking place during the evening and maybe welcoming these couples back when they hold their wedding breakfasts”.

More information about Lindeth Howe can be found at lindeth-howe.co.uk. Prices for a night’s accommodation on February 14 start at £175 per room, inclusive of breakfast.

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