At the Duke we always have a minimum of 4 real ales on hand pull, including our house ale Sambrook’s Wandle (brewed in Wandsworth, London, since 2008). The other pumps host a variety of changing guest ales.

We also run regular two ale festivals a year, each hosting 30+ seasonal beers and real ciders from small west country farms.  Our next festival will be in AUTUMN/WINTER 2010.

CAMRA “North London Pub Of The Season” Spring 2010 – we were delighted to be awarded this accolade by CAMRA in recognition of our support for real ale, real ciders, independent breweries, the Locale scheme and our regular real ale festivals.

Here’s a taster of the ales we have recently stocked or have coming up soon:

• Adnam’s Tally Ho & Broadside
• Brodies Mild, Red, Sunshine, Amarillo & IPA
• Crouch Vale Brewers Gold
• Hook Norton’s Old Hooky
• Hop Back Summer Lightning & GFB
• Nethergate Umbel Ale & Old Growler
• Rudgate Ruby Mild & Battle Axe
• Sharp’s Cornish Coaster and Doombar
• St. Austell’s Tribute
• Skinner’s Betty Stoggs
• Timothy Taylor Landlord
• And others ales from Loddon, O’Hanlon, Oxfordshire, Rebellion, Tring & Wolf Breweries

BOURBONS

• Blanton’s Original
• Buffalo Trace
• Bullet
• Jim Beam
• Knob Creek
• Makers Mark
• Wild Turkey
• Woodford Reserve

SINGLE MALTS

• Auchentoshan Three Wood
• Balblair 16yr
• Balvenie
• Bowmore
• Clynelish 14 Year old
• Dalmore 12 Year old
• Glenfiddich
• Lagavulin
• Laphroaig
• Longmorn 12
• Oban
• Springbank 10
• Talisker
  

GRAIN WHISKY

• Compass Box Hedonism

IRISH WHISKEY

• Connemara

JAPANESE WHISKY

• Suntory Yamazaki 12

RUMS

• Appleton Estate
• Appleton Estate 8YO
• Black Seal
• Bundaberg
• Havana Club 3YO
• Havana Club 7YO
• Morgans Spiced
• Mount Gay
• Mount Gay Extra Old
• Sailor Jerry
• Woods 100
• Wray & Nephew

TEQUILA

• Patron Silver Tequila
• Patron XO Cafe Tequila

VODKAS

• Grey Goose
• Stolichnaya
• Wyborowa
• Zubrowka

GINS

• Gordons
• Hendricks
• Millers
• Plymouth
• Plymouth Sloe
• Tanqueray
• Tanqueray No.10

COFFEE

With our much loved La Marzocco espresso machine, we offer an extensive menu of espresso based coffees. We use coffee exclusively from East London’s Climpson & Sons because we love the fact that they are a small, independent company run by enthusiasts, based right here in Hackney.  They import and roast their own beans and have remained at the forefront of the coffee industry since their founding in 2005 by fostering the latest techniques and individually hand roasting a range of quality coffees at their London Fields  roastery, a mile from the Duke.  Do visit the Climpson & Sons website for more about the history of the company and their seasonal blends.

TEA

Not only do we do a top notch builders brew, we also stock a changing selection of loose leaf teas that we buy direct from Tim D’Offay at Mayfair’s Postcard Teas including a choice of black and green teas, oolongs, spiced and scented teas.

Served Monday–Saturday / 5.30–10pm

(All menus are typical, and are subject to change on a daily basis)

Butternut squash soup £4
Garlic mushrooms on toast £4
½ pint of prawns & mayonnaise £4.50
Chicken liver & brandy pate on toast with cornichons £4.50
Smoked highland salmon with toast & dill cream £5

Beetroot & goats cheese salad with vinaigrette £7.50
Galloway burger & triple cooked chips £8
Cumberland sausage & mash with red onion gravy £8
Lentil & wild mushroom pie with new potatoes £8
Beef & Guinness pie with curly kale £9
Whole trout, new potatoes & cucumber salad with crayfish butter £10
Rump steak with chips & little gem salad £12
Beef Wellington with baby spinach & tomato £15

Sides:
‘Spence Bakery’ bread £2
Triple cooked chips £2.50
Green salad w/tomato & vinaigrette £2.75

Stilton, redcurrant jelly & wafers £4
Apple & blackcurrant crumble with cream £4.50
Chocolate pudding with cream £5

* Some dishes may contain traces of nuts.
** Menus are typical examples, although dishes can change daily. To request a copy menu, to make a reservation or pre-order please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com or telephone 020 7275 7640.

Served 11am–5pm

(All menus are typical, and are subject to change on a daily basis)

Yoghurt and muesli with honey   £3
Eggs of your choice on toast   £4.50
Butterbeans, tomato & bacon on toast   £5.50
Grilled Cornish sardines on toast with celeriac remoulade & tomato concasse   £6.50
Eggs Benedict   £6.50
Eggs Florentine   £6.50
Eggs Royale   £7.50
Scrambled eggs, smoked Highland salmon & chives on toast   £7
English breakfast   £7.50(Cumberland sausage, fried egg, smoked bacon, grilled field mushroom, tomato, sautéed potatoes & toast)
Galloway burger with triple cooked chips   £9.50

* Some dishes may contain traces of nuts.
** Menus are typical examples, although dishes can change daily. To request a copy menu, to make a reservation or pre-order please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com or telephone 020 7275 7640.

Served 12noon – 8pm

(All menus are typical, and are subject to change on a daily basis)

Mushrooms on toast £4
½ pint of prawns & mayonnaise £4.50
Chicken liver & brandy pate on toast £4.50
Beetroot, rocket & goats cheese salad £5

Grilled courgette, fennel & tomato with parsley cream & new potatoes £8
Fillet of sea bass, new potatoes & cucumber salad with chervil butter £10

Roast free range chicken & bread sauce £11
Old spot pork loin & creamed leeks £11.50
32 day hung ‘rare’ roast Devon sirloin & Yorkshire pudding £13

Stilton, redcurrant jelly & wafers £4
Apple & blackcurrant crumble with cream £4.50
Chocolate pudding with cream £5

* Some dishes may contain traces of nuts.
** Menus are typical examples, although dishes can change daily. To request a copy menu, to make a reservation or pre-order please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com or telephone 020 7275 7640.

Our monthly Duke of Wellington Dinner Club takes place in our back room.  Featuring a 4-course meal of seasonal British produce, the emphasis is on a communal eating experience, think a dinner party in friendly, sociable surroundings, with new friends.

To make a reservation please email info@thedukeofwellingtonN1.com / Tel: 020 7275 7640

Next event – Coming January 2012

£35.00 for 4 courses, plus an amouse bouche and coffee or tea

Please note, vegetarian options will be available, please enquire when booking.  The September 2011 was:

Amuse Bouche
Globe Artichoke with hollandaise sauce

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Starter
Braised mutton, roast butternut squash & caper cream sauce

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Fish Course
Mussels and shallots in London beer

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Main Course
Roast Barbary duck breast, crushed new potatoes, shallots, and crisped curly kale with port and juniper sauce

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Dessert
Pear three ways: Poached, baked and caramelised served with walnut and blue cheese crumbs

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Coffee / Tea
To be followed by coffee or tea of your choice. Our coffee is supplied by Climpsons of London Fields

* Vegetarian Options Available for all courses, please enquire when booking *

Our next (6th!) Real Ale Festival runs Thursday 26th January until Sunday 29th January 2012.

We kick off at 3pm on Thursday 26th. As usual all our 8 real ale handpumps will be utilised, plus our back room racking, with  23 real ales direct from the cask available over the course of the festival.

This festival’s theme is New World Hops and New Ale Styles, so there will be lots of interesting ales, including a number brewed especially for us, together with a range of Welsh and West Country real ciders.

10% discount for all CAMRA members.

Full list of ales and ciders:

Ale

1) Dark Star – Smoked Porter 5.4%

2) Dark Star – American Pale Ale 4.7%

3) Dark Star – Revelation IPA 5.7%

4) Ascot – Red IPA 5.5%

5) Brodies – Balls Pond Red 6.1%

6) Brodies – American Brown 4.8%)

7) Brodies – Kiwi 3.8%

Magic Rock – High Wire 5.5%

9) Magic Rock – Dark Arts 6%

10) BBF – Milk Stout 4.5%

11) BBF – Virtue 4.2%

12) Hard Knott – Code Black 5.6%

13) Hard Knott – Continuum 4%

14) Boggart – Cascade 4%

15) Steel City – Dark Funeral ABV 5.3%

16) Saltaire – South Island Pale 3.5%

17) Tryst – Carronade IPA 4.2%

18) Ilkley – Lotus IPA 5.7%

19) Marble – Chocolate 5.5%

20) Windsor & Eton – Conqueror 5%

21) Kernel – Nelson Sauvin Pale Ale 5.3%

22) Kernel – Export India Porter 6.5%

23) Crouch Vale – Amarillo 5%

Cider

1) Penallt Perry
2) Springfield Red Dragon Medium
3) Bollhayes Medium Dry
4) Butford Perry
5) Ciderfect Medium Dry
6) Handmade Cider Co Rough Diamond Dry
7) Hartland Perry
Newton Court Medium
9) Sarah’s Medium Dry
10) Upperhouse Medium
11) Venton Cyder Pig’s Snout Dry
12) Oliver Perry