Daisy

Cocktails

Champagne Daiquiri (£10.50) 

Done it, guys. Done it. Figured out how to make champagne tastier, somehow. First we throw the champagne out entirely, recreate the flavour profile with science and combine it with Havana 7 rum. The champagne industry is on the phone. ‘Please,’ it is saying, please stop. You’ve changed the game. We’re on our knees, here’. No. We refuse to stop.

Thyme After Pine (£12)

You’re walking through a brisk German forest as the birds start their morning whistling. Beneath you is the bouncy crunch of litterfall! Above you is a clear blue sky dappled with beams of sunlight! You are nourished by a hearty breakfast of beans and bacon! Ja! Hold on— what’s a cocktail glass, doing here? Filled with a delicious combination of Sipsmith gin, Select aperitivo, thyme and pine bud liqueur? Ah this is— fucksake. This is a haunted forest, isn’t it? If I drink this I’ll be taken by a witch. Well, it’s too late. It’s all gone. And it was nice. Do with my body what you will, foul wench! 

A Lychee Story (£10.50)

A Daisy classic: a lychee and Thai basil spritz that hits the same off-dry sweet spot a good Reisling does, but. You know. With way more lychee flavour, obviously. Incredibly thirst-quenching: for the ideal drinking experience, try and order one around sunset. 

I Yam What I Yam (£11)

The kind of margarita they’d serve on holiday to an all-inclusive alien sex resort. You’re in Galactic Ibiza and it’s crazy. A green woman with zero g cleavage and black bug eyes sidles up to you at the bar. She wants you to “chlonk her”. You don’t really know what that means but you’re going to do it, aren’t you? Wayne Lineker is there. So’s Ed Sheeran, for some reason.

Plum & Plumber (£11)

Listen: frankly I am tired of being ‘challenged’ by cocktails. I work all week! Stop being difficult! Stop making me read all this menu! I want something red and sweet but not too sweet and fruity! I want a drink that’s going to make me dance a little bit in my seat! Not too much because that would be weird, but a little bit! I know I’m doing it even if no one else does! My bum’s going! Anyway: you want this. 

Treacle A Mockingbird (£13) 

No way of saying this but this cocktail looks insane. It looks insane. There is no way of looking at this drink and going: “Yeah, normal.” It tastes like treacle and chestnut and a little bit of coffee and has the dark sweetness of rum, but it looks like a potion. If you’re ever in an eastern European castle and a guy who’s been ageing backwards for the last two decades starts drinking one of these, run.   

Liquorice Kir Royale (£10)

I think most of us have more or less the same formative drinking experience: a single can of Dark Fruits and half a menthol cigarette, consumed next to someone you fancy so much your body is vibrating, at 9 p.m. in a British park. This is just that, but grown-up: cassis, prosecco, salted liquorice liqueur. Makes you want to walk a mile home and update MySpace in an obtuse way. Makes you want to absolutely yell at your mum. 

Low Hanging Fruit (£11) 

This is a Torres 15 (Spanish brandy), Pedro Ximénez sherry and carbonated bramley apple juice combination that I can only describe as “the stuff jolly peasants drank at weddings in the middle ages (on tv)”. Give me a barrel full of this and I’ll get on all fours and start chasing the pigs around the pen. The kind of drink that makes you terrified of magic. 

Beetroot Yourself (£12) 

We thought we were really clever making a drink out of beetroot juice, kümmel, house acid and a glug of mezcal, but what it actually turned out as is…you know how Victorians had really cool medicines before ‘health and safety’ made them take all the cocaine and alcohol out? This tastes like something you’d give to a blubbering soldier in 1895. 

American Gothic (£13) 

The sexiest drink on the menu – like the world’s most perfect glass of bourbon. Have one of these and you start doing cool finger-twirling tricks with a cigarette. Drink two and you start writing your number on beer mats. Drink three and an androgynous couple from Scandinavia tell you how much they really dig your vibe. I can’t legally detail what happens after four. 

HVT (£3.50 NA)

Sweet, sharp, crisp. No, we’re not describing a premium coleslaw. It’s a drink. Although: kind of in the mood for coleslaw now. Local honey with a splash of muscatel vinegar, cucumber ribbons and tonic. 

Tequila Con Verdita (£4 / 3 for £10)

Two shots: one a perfect, Whole Foods-style green drink, and then a single measure of good tequila. It’s very ‘Gwyneth Paltrow smoking one cigarette a week’, if that makes sense. 

Martiny (£5)

We extremely voided the warranty on what lawyers insist we call a ‘branded herb-based liqueur machine’ to pump out teeny tiny, ice-cold, oyster shell infused tequila martinis. 

House Cordials (£3..50/£7.50)

Our house cordials, available as a highball (with soda) or gimlet (with NA gin) – with Hay, Mango or Citrus cordials

Food

We have Snake Oil Barbecue in residence in our kitchen.

Sample Menu

Snacks
Pimento Cheese, Sesame Crackers
Devilled Eggs, Mushroom XO
Pork Rinds, Beer Mustard
Skillet Cornbread, Nduja
½ Dzn Oysters all the way
3x Baked Bone Marrow Oysters
Grilled Padron Peppers, White Bean Spread
Crab Claws, Crab Butter
Old Bay Mussels

Sides
Mash & Gravy
Dilly Biscuits
Green Goddess Salad
Elote Corn on the Cob
Herby Buttermilk Slaw

Mains
Mustard Mopped Pork Steak
Whole Beef Short Rib
Jalapeno Cheese Sausage
3x Pieces Fried Chicken
Char Siu Lions Mane (VE)

Pie
Sugar Pie, Bourbon Cream

Sunday Roasts

Snacks

Fried Pork Rinds, Apple Barbecue Sauce £4
Pimento Cheese, Ritz Crackers  £4
Texas Twinkies, Garlic & Herb Ranch £5.5
Smoked Chicken Liver Toast £6
Nutbourne Tomatoes, Smoked Tofu & Basil (Vg) £10

Roasts

Dry Aged Aurox Beef Rump, £21
Oxford Sandy & Black Pork Loin £20 
Saxon Chicken Supreme £19

All served with Yorkshire Pudding, Hot Honey Carrots, Miso Hispi Cabbage, House Gravy & Dripping Roast Potatoes

Maple Thyme Glazed Smoked Butternut Squash (Vg)  £17

Served with Roast Carrots, Miso Hispi Cabbage, Gravy & Roast Potatoes 

Sides 

Hot Skillet Cornbread, Jalapeno Pickle Butter £13
Beef and Guinness Pie, Hot Crust Pastry £15
Mac and Cheese, Porky Crumb £5.5

All vegetable sides are available as extras for £5 per portion