London Life October 2013: Food & Drink by Luiz Hara

Find out more about this year's London Restaurant Festival, try one of the fantastic Korean restaurants in Little Seoul or if French cuisine and wines are more like your thing, why not head to Terroirs or one of its sister restaurants in London. These are some of my foodie recommendations for Heathrow Express readers this month, to read more visit their website here.

Bibimbap at Hurwundeki

Scone in sixty seconds…

Words by Felicity Spector

There can’t be many better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon: a gloriously bohemian venue, some of the country’s best chefs whipping up a range of specially created cakes and scones - and all to raise money for Action against Hunger.

Image by Lisa Barber

Top marks, then to the inaugural session of The Scone Club, sponsored by the bespoke tea company Lalani & Co, in the space currently occupied by the Pret a Diner pop up at the Royal Academy’s Burlington Social Club. It was all part of the London Restaurant Festival, which was filling London with all sorts of exciting and eclectic events earlier this month.

Image by Lisa Barber

The seats were packed in around a large square bar, with a space in the middle where a group of chefs were busy doing clever things with confectioners’ sugar and icing trays of buns. We negotiated our way through the subdued lighting and snagged some seats at the back, nearest the cakes: always best to be near the cakes, in my experience.

Image by Lisa Barber

Nadeem Lalani showed us a ‘Tea Library’ with a brief selection of rare, seasonal teas, and then presented us with a small individual pot of First Flush Gopaldhara Garden Darjeeling, together with a little timer to ensure we let it brew for long enough as we waited for our scone fest. It was beautiful, light and fragrant, and incredibly fresh. And all the better for being drunk out of a glass.

Image by Lisa Barber

The food menu couldn’t have sounded more promising, from an array of chefs with 5 Michelin stars between them: there were a couple of savoury options, a brace of cakes, and an intriguing fruit soup concoction from Nobu’s executive pastry chef Regis Cursan.

Image by Lisa Barber

In fact Regis himself was stationed right opposite us, down in the kitchen area, and soon sorted us out with a large slate full of baked goodies to share.

We tried a savoury pinwheel scone stuffed with roasted onion and herbs, from Marcus Waering and Oliver Wilson at the Gilbert Scott, but my favourite was Richard Corrigan and Chris McGowan’s pumpkin and cobnut scone, pale green with pumpkin seed oil, filled with goats cheese and a thick layer of pumpkin chutney.

Image by Lisa Barber

From there we segued easily into the cakes: Anna Hansen, from the Modern Pantry, urging us to take a couple of her delicious pistachio and pandan cakes, while my friend also made short work of a lemon drizzle from Le Manoir. Ravinder Bhogal, best known as Cook in Boots, offered a huge tray of rose scented mini scones with raspberry jam, and some bite sized peanut butter and jam madeleines.

Image by Lisa Barber

You might think any normal person would have been full at this stage - but try resisting Regis Cursan’s interpretation of ‘cake’: an apricot soup, tart and refreshing, with a huge pile of amazingly buttery, melt in the mouth peanut butter cookie pieces - I didn’t have the beer ice-cream which went with it, as I’m teetotal, but everyone around me seemed to be wolfing it down.

Image by Lisa Barber

It would clearly have been rude not to try the special fruit brioche buns, or ’manchets’, from Jeremy Lee which apparently aren’t normally allowed out of Quo Vadis. All I can say is that it was worth the effort. One of my favourites of the afternoon. I did admit defeat at the chocolate scone-brioche from Alexis Gaultier, although I sneaked it home for later. You’d have done the same.

All of this amazing spread managed to raise £2,000 for charity, a fantastic achievement by the boys from Lalani & Co, the chefs who took part, and everyone who pitched in to help.

Image by Lisa Barber

Hopefully this will just be the first Scone Club of many. Personally, I’m thinking of taking out a life membership, if they’ll have me. Hope no-one finds out I sneaked that chocolate brioche home in my handbag.

Words by Felicity Spector
Felicity Spector has worked at Channel 4 News for 23 years and is currently chief writer. She has a bunch of fancy Masters degrees from Oxford and Harvard and writes about US politics. She is also passionate about food and has judged the Great Taste Awards for 5 years, helping to champion the country's best small producers. She is especially passionate about desserts. Cheesecake and brownies a particular specialty.

 Images by Lisa Barber
If you would like to see more of Lisa's fantastic photography, visit her website here.

Kitchen Influentials Lunch at Hix Oyster & Chop House

Words and Photography by Su-Lin Ong

The London Restaurant Festival 2012 (1-15 October) is replete with creative treats for seasoned omnivores.  This year's celebration featured the new Kitchen Influentials series.  These one-off Sunday lunches, especially for American Express card members, teamed up pairs of top chefs for double fun and surprises.

It was off to the lunch hosted by Mark Hix and Harvey Ayeliffe at Hix Oyster & Chop House in Smithfield that I went.

Harvey has worked with Mark for some 15 years, and more recently, together they opened Alfred's the Dunhill members' club in Mayfair.  So with these impeccably tailored creds, the day's lunch was full of dapper promise; no over-styling, no conceits.

Mark Hix's food is always about beautifully seasonal produce that is painstakingly sourced from choice suppliers.  Despite the restaurant being a mere toss of a pork scratching from Smithfield Market, Hix chooses to source his meat with a lot more fuss and attention.  There are Cornish clues around the place.

The dining room we sit in seems like the kind of canteen which butchers might like to feast in.  Shiny utility finishes, a solid, well-used bar and proper bright lights keep you gazing around the space, meeting the eye of fellow diners doing the same.  It seemed more like a lively weekday, with plenty of social bustling between tables - which is always allowed on these special occasions.  This is what Sunday lunch in the city should be like.  

All eyes eventually get darting to the wall art.  Hix is known for being a patron of contemporary art, with an astute eye for snaffling up pieces to adorn his restaurants.  He is a lucky, lucky man to have such available wall space with which to delight his diners.  It all fits without distracting from the purposeful look of the restaurant.  Paper table covers are always a good sign.  They clearly encourage a kind of informality: 'Don't mind it if you get messy'.  And we didn't.

So when lunch was served by our waiter with the perfect handlebar moustache, we knew it would end up being the type of Sunday session with a bit of boisterous banter flung round the table.  

We hushed for the first course of steamed Lyme Bay shellfish.  It was lightly prepared so that the individual flavour of each offering could be clearly tasted.  The single oyster which crowned the dish was quite simply enough, and made me think how any typical platter of six or 12 oysters so dulls your palate for anything else.  It started us musing about shoreline foraging and wanting to head for the seaside.  A zingy Gavi di Gavi complemented this dish, and had us nibbling again on the teasing ribbons of fried parsnip that had welcomed us to the table; not leaving those.

It was back to hedgerow and field for the next two courses.  Grouse was finely slivered into a salad, yet its dark gamey flavours still beat through.  It seemed a little on the dry side for those of us once-a-year grouse eaters, who only know how to slather on the gravy and bread sauce.  Never mind, subtle sharpness came from elderberries that we naughtily crushed into red stains on the plate.  

Next came the rib of veal, served in hunks that were sliced in a way that only someone truly skilled with a single curved swipe of a knife can manage.  This magnificent, honest meat was perfectly melting.  

By this point, a magnum had been placed on the table.  It had to be this magnum, instructed our host as he explained his choice to me.  Why such a name as Tonnix?  Well, Tonnix - a luscious Douro - was dreamed up by Hix and restaurateur friend Mitch Tonks.  The simple label was another clue that this was the host’s proud cellar choice.  It was not just any meandering of the pen; this was a Tracey Emin doodle.

Back on the foraging trail, we marvelled at the mountain of Autumn blackberries on the light-as-air apple pudding, and we thrilled like kids at the giant one hidden inside like a sixpence.  These were not uniform black blackberries on steroids, but wild looking, wind-beaten bounty, tinged with dark juicy pinks. Then arrived the cider brandy custard which was non-stop flowing.  We all insisted it needed continuous pouring for the sake of achieving a decent photo.  I am hoping the recipe will be in Mark Hix's new Baking book.

The sweet Jurançon we sipped alongside had notes of dessert apple too.

As for our host, Mark Hix, he was charming.  Comfortable with his guests whom he treated alike as old friends, he had plenty of time to sit and talk away. Wouldn't mind loitering on a street corner with him for a breath of fresh air, we thought.  I am always one to quiz people about the next treat in store, so I asked him to spill the beans.  I'm hopeless at keeping secrets - he doesn't know that, of course.

So as not to give too much away, all I can say is that the next Hix establishment is likely to be somewhere in West London.  W10?  W11?  Guessing from his keen eye for vintage detailing, it is likely to be an unloved space which he will gloss up again; a shell of a building he can fill with artwork and more, fine, discreet dining.  Well, I'll ask him again until he tells me.

What an afternoon.  I would have liked to stretch it to cocktail hour, to test the list of gentlemanly offerings.  Vintage cocktail trappings on the bar are always a sign that bartenders want to flex their skills.  But that makes for another visit, for sure.

It's time to leave.  The light sculpture in hot white neon by Tim Noble & Sue Webster that hangs on the back wall says it all about the ambience of this place.  
Still can't read it?
Put a mirror against this photo, and you'll get the message loud and clear.  
You'll agree.

The menu & wines
Steamed Lyme Bay shellfish with seashore vegetables

Wolsingham Estate grouse salad with elderberries
Slow roast Cumbrian rib of veal with Jerusalem artichokes, ceps and curly kale
Steamed blackberry and apple pudding with cider brandy custard

Gavi di Gavi Bric Sassi, Piedmont 2011 - Vibrant honeyed fruit-burst flavours.
Tonnix 2010 in magnum - This full-bodied, dark fruit wine is produced by Quinta de la Rosa at Pinhão in the Douro Valley. 
Domaine Cauhapé Symphonie de Novembre, Jurançon 2009 - Beautifully rewarding, both dry and sweet. Exotically perfumed.

Su-Lin Ong attended on behalf of The London Foodie and dined as a guest of American Express, Mark Hix, Harvey Ayeliffe and MHPC, 7 October 2012.
www.londonrestaurantfestival.com/amex

Hix Oyster & Chop House 
36-37 Greenhill Rents, Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BN 
Tel: 020 7017 1930
www.hixoysterandchophouse.co.uk

Words and Photography by Su-Lin Ong
Su-Lin Ong eats and drinks tirelessly in adventurous corners around town.  A great night out is one filled with the fun of guests making crazy conversation in any place with a vibrant, individual ambience. By day, Su-Lin is an entertainment, food and drink expert. Her work has spanned feature writing for international lifestyle magazines, through to music business and parliamentary consultancy.  She is also a trained cook. One of her first encounters with Luiz Hara, The London Foodie, was at a gourmet cooking dinner when he relegated her to 'making the salad'. Contact Su-Lin via The London Foodie or sulinong@slo-london.co.uk   Twitter: @sloLondon

London Restaurant Festival Giveaway - **Win a 3-Course Dinner for Two at Axis at One Aldwych**

As part of the 2012 London Restaurant Festival, The London Foodie has teamed up with the 5-star luxury hotel One Aldwych to offer you the chance to win a fantastic three-course dinner specially devised by their new Executive Chef Dominic Teague for LRF2012.

One Aldwych is one of my favourite London Hotels, and I had the pleasure of reviewing Axis at One Aldwych for last year's LRF, see review here.

Judging by Chef Dominic Teauge's impressive career to date, you will be well looked after!

As a young chef in the 1990s, Dominic apprenticed at the Lanesborough Hotel, London and Bishopstrow House, Wiltshire. Following a period at the Regal Hotel, Hong Kong, he returned to the Lanesborough Hotel, then joined Marco Pierre White first at the Oak Room then at L’Escargot. Here he progressed from Sous Chef to Head Chef to Executive Chef and maintained one Michelin star for six consecutive years. From 2006 to 2010 he was Head Chef at Aurora restaurant at Andaz Hotel, London. From 2010 to May 2012 Dominic was Executive Sous Chef at the acclaimed luxury resort Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados where he oversaw seven food outlets.

HOW TO ENTER THIS COMPETITION

To enter the competition to win a 3-course dinner for two plus a bottle of wine at Axis at One Aldwych on Friday, the 12th October 2012, simply leave a comment in this post stating your NAME and E-MAIL address as MrBloggs(at)gmail(dot)com by midday on Wednesday, the 10th October 2012. 

The lucky winner will be randomly selected using random.org and his/her name will be announced via Twitter (follow @thelondonfoodie) at 1pm on that same day.

To increase your chances of winning (every tweet/retweet will count as an additional entry - up to 1 tweet per follower), follow and tweet me on @thelondonfoodie for @OneAldwych competition by midday on Wednesday, the 10th October.

If you do not use Twitter, I will also be publishing the winner's name here on Friday, the 12th October 2012.

GOOD LUCK!

THE LUCKY WINNER OF THIS COMPETITION, RANDOMLY SELECTED BY RANDOM.ORG, WAS ENTRANT 51 JESSICA BENSON-EGGLENTON, CONGRATULATIONS JESS!

London Restaurant Festival Giveaway - **WIN a lunch for 4 at Bistrot Bruno Loubet Worth £450**

It is that time of the year again when London celebrates the best in restaurant dining from across the UK. London Restaurant Festival 2012 in partnership with American Express (1 – 15 October), now in its fourth year, is a two-week celebration of the capital’s restaurants and food.

Kitchen Influentials, an exclusive event for American Express Cardmembers, will bring together some of the country’s most renowned chefs with their protégés, family or friends for a one off lunch. The twenty chefs include Michel Roux, Bruno Loubet, Rowley Leigh and Mark Hix. 

The London Foodie is again delighted to be able to offer a fantastic opportunity to win 4 tickets to the American Express ‘Kitchen Influentials’ event at Bistrot Bruno Loubet (reviewed here) on 7th October at 12.30pm. 

Bruno Loubet will be reunited with his good friend Alastair Little to cook a one-off Sunday Lunch at the restaurant on 7th October. The chefs will prepare and serve a special collaborative menu for Sunday lunch. The prize is for 4 tickets to this lunch + £100 worth of drinks at the event = an overall prize value of around £450!

HOW TO ENTER THIS COMPETITION

To enter the competition to win a lunch for 4 people at Bistrot Bruno Loubet on 7th October 2012, simply leave a comment in this post stating your NAME and E-MAIL address as MrBloggs(at)gmail(dot)com by midday on Thursday, the 4th October 2012. 

The lucky winner will be randomly selected using random.org and his/her name will be announced via Twitter (follow @thelondonfoodie) at 1pm on that same day.

To increase your chances of winning (every tweet/retweet will count as an additional entry - up to 1 tweet per follower), follow and tweet me on @thelondonfoodie for competition by midday on Thursday, the 4th October.

If you do not use Twitter, I will also be publishing the winner's name here on Friday, the 5th October 2012.

GOOD LUCK!

THE LUCKY WINNER OF THIS FANTASTIC COMPETITION IS ENTRANT 52 (NICKIE) WHO WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED BY RANDOM.ORG. CONGRATULATIONS NICKIE, THANK YOU FOR ENTERING THE COMPETITION, ENJOY YOUR PRIZE!

Terms and Conditions:

• The prize includes < a lunch for four at Bistro Bruno Loubet as part of the American Express Kitchen Influentials event on Sunday 7th October 2012.>
• Lunch will be served between 12.30 – 3.30
• £100 worth of drinks will be pre-paid in advance for the table of four. Please bring ID for purchasing alcoholic drinks
• Accommodation and travel are NOT included 
• The prize is non refundable and non-transferable. There is no cash alternative
• Standard publication Terms and Conditions apply

As part of the service delivered to Cardmembers, American Express handpicks the very best in dining, arts and entertainment. From giving you a sneak peek behind the scenes to offering money can't buy experiences, American Express goes that extra mile to deliver inspiring and memorable events. For more information visit amex.co.uk/potential, or follow @AmexUK on Twitter.

American Express is also running a foursquare offer throughout London Restaurant Festival, offering Cardmembers a £10 statement credit when they spend £10 using their synced Card at one of the participating restaurants. Cardmembers will have the choice of redeeming the offer at any of the 500 participating venues that are featured on the London Restaurant Festival website. The offer is valid on the first qualifying transaction made with a synced Card. To take advantage of such fantastic opportunities, sync your card at: http://www.londonrestaurantfestival.com/americanexpress/foursquare/ 

London Restaurant Festival 2011 - My Round-Up of this Year's Highlights

The London Restaurant Festival ran from 3rd to 17th October this year. The third year it has run, in my opinion, it was also the best Festival we had to date. It has grown from previous years and is now a real celebration of what British restaurants have to offer.

Along with the 'main menu' events involving well-known and established restaurants, the 'side dishes'  were an opportunity for new and less well-known restaurants to introduce themselves to a wider audience.  In the latter category, there were some great finds and bargains to be had.  In addition to this, it was an excellent opportunity to experience the cooking of top Michelin-starred chefs from different parts of the UK in London at affordable prices, including Sat Bains and Nathan Outlaw to name just a couple who cooked at Fortnum & Mason's.

If you missed the Festival this year, I urge you to keep your eyes peeled for the 2012 event.  Below is a round-up of some of my favourite events this year. 

Eat Film at The Covent Garden Hotel

Sponsored by San Pellegrino, this was an intimate screening of the film 'Waitress' at the Covent Garden Hotel (part of the The FirmdaleGroup of Hotels also including Soho Hotel and Charlotte Street Hotel). The film was chosen by special guest and industry insider Laura Santtini, who introduced the film.  The evening, priced at £55 per person, started with a Laurent Perrier Champagne reception, the film viewing itself, followed by a delicious three-course meal in the hotel’s restaurant, Brasserie Max.

The film was entertaining, cute, mainly centred around food, and the trials and tribulations of three waitresses working in a pie cafe in the USA. The food that followed in Brasserie Max, was delicious, and the full menu which was inspired by the film, is shown below.

Shaved fennel, endive, pink grapefruit and apple salad, mint

Cinnamon, allspice and brown sugar rubbed “chauvinistic” pig slow roasted with sweet potato gratin and watercress

Wishing on a chocolate moon pie

I thoroughly enjoyed this night out, and discovered then that Covent Garden Hotel hosts a regular weekly Saturday night film club, to which I will return. This includes either afternoon tea or a two course dinner with a glass of premium wine and the movie for £35 per person, with films starting at 8pm.  Movies vary from classics to latest releases.  Forthcoming films include Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris' on 26th November, 'It's a Wonderful Life' on 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th December, 'The Help' on 14th January, to name just a few.  For a full listing and booking details, click here.

Andaz Catch - Seafood Workshop

Led by Martin Scholz, Head Chef of Andaz Hotel's renowned seafood restaurant Catch (which I have previously reviewed here), this was a daytime event starting at 7am in the hotel's lobby.  From there, we were taken by coach to Billingsgate Fish Market for a guided tour, where Martin introduced us to seafood suppliers and taught us how to select seafood.  

After the tour, we were taken back to the hotel, where together with Martin and his sous-chef, we cooked a three-course lunch.  This was a hands-on cookery class, in a state of the art cookery demonstration and events suite which the hotel has recently built, and which looks stunning.

The menu was delicious, and recipes were also provided.  Below, you can see what we cooked on the day.

Bouillabaisse

Risotto with Chorizo, pan-fried Cod and baby squid filled with tapenade with Moroccan black olives

Crème Brulée

Andaz Hotel's Sommelier served a magnificent array of wines to match our meal, starting with Champagne, and moving on to a selection of white wines such as a '10 Chilean Sauvignon Blanc from Rapel Valley, an '09 Riesling from Mosel, and an '80 Bual Madeira Wine.  We also had an '08 St Aubin, an '05 Chateau Haura Graves with the fish.  To accompany dessert, we enjoyed an '83 Chateau Climens 1er Cru Sauternes-Barsac and a Chateau Yquem '98 Sauternes (legendary wine, reputedly the most expensive in the world).  We finished a magnificent lunch with coffee and Cognac.

The workshop ran from 7.45am to 2.00pm and cost in my opinion a bargain price of £70 per person. Judging by my experience, should Andaz Hotel run this workshop again, I could not recommend it highly enough.  

For more information about Andaz Hotel's latest events, visit their website here.

Brit-Dish at The Corner Room

In association with American Express, the official sponsors of London Restaurant Festival, Brit-Dish was one of the festival's main events, at which renowned chefs reinterpreted some of the most-loved British national dishes.

I am a great supporter of Nuno Mendes' cooking, which I have reviewed at The Loft Project in 2009 (here) and at Viajante in 2010 (here).  I was fortunate to have the opportunity to take part in the Brit-Dish event with my friend Carly of Greedy Diva, at Nuno's new venture, The Corner Room.

Nuno's cooking divides opinions - you may love or hate it, but you will never be indifferent to it.  Luckily in my case, I can't get enough of it.  His food is inspiring in its creativity, and thought-provoking.  His use of ingredients and flavour combinations is highly sophisticated, as his re-interpretation of humble British dishes in the menu below demonstrated.

Prawn Cocktail

Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding

Apple Crumble

A man who can make prawn cocktail, roast beef and apple crumble taste and look as exquisite as this clearly deserves to be taken notice of.  His new restaurant, The Corner Room, is housed in a luxury hotel occupying the former Bethnal Green Town Hall, where Viajante is also situated. It is a single room furnished simply but stylishly with high white-tiled walls, stripped wood flooring and panelling, vintage lighting and plain wooden tables.  The menu changes daily, and prices are very reasonable.  No bookings are taken. Very highly recommended.

Modern Market Menu at One Aldwych

Tony Fleming put together a special menu for London Restaurant Festival, called the Modern Market Menu. This involved dining around the hotel, each course served in a different location within One Aldwych Hotel, the independent, award-winning luxury 5-star hotel in the heart of London's Covent Garden.

Starting at the Lobby Bar, the evening kicked off with a glass of Ridgeview's Bloomsbury Cuvée Merret and a tasting of oysters prepared in four different ways - natural with shallot vinegar and tabasco, jellied with watercress, deep fried with tartar sauce and chips, and angels on horseback. I enjoyed the buzzing atmosphere at the bar, with guests and non-guests mingling over cocktails and delectable bar-snacks.

We then moved down to the hotel's main Axis Restaurant for roast haunch of venison and caramelised root vegetable purée with chestnut jus. This was impeccable, and moreover was served with a magnificent individual shepherd's pie. The restaurant was very elegant, and the food and service excellent.  I would definitely like to return.

For dessert, we headed up to the mezzanine Indigo Restaurant for a blackberry, elderberry and sloe gin jelly, clotted cream ice cream and blackberry mousse. This was outstandingly good - not only were the flavours of the mousse, jelly and ice cream delicious, but there was an excellent contrast of textures imparted by a crisp caramel coating for the blackberries, and a peanut brittle between the jelly and mousse.

The Festival was a great eye-opener for me, showing me that not only are there some great restaurants at One Aldwych, but also that the hotel offers a range of interesting foodie experiences.  The Tasting Club includes a variety of activities, such as cookery classes, Axis Seasonal Dishes - a 12-month calendar of seasonal dishes by head chef Tony Fleming's 'Food Hero' suppliers, and "Moet Movies"  each weekend, with a glass of champagne, a movie, popcorn and a three course dinner all for £42.50 per head. There is also a regular 'Ten after Ten' option of a late night or post-theatre sweet fix at Indigo, after 10pm, for a choice of dessert with a glass of dessert wine for £10 per person.

I thoroughly enjoyed the food in all the restaurants in One Aldwych, and thought the lobby bar was a great place for a cocktail or glass of wine before or after dinner.  The Moet Movies beckon.  I cannot wait to return.

For more information on Tony Fleming's seasonal dishes, click here .

For a full listing of Moet Movies, click here.

Nathan Outlaw at Fortnum and Mason

As part of the festival celebrations, Fortnum & Mason hosted a Culinary Carnival where guests had the opportunity to sample dishes by some of the UK’s best loved chefs, some Michelin-starred, in The Gallery Restaurant. Menus were created by the guest chefs reflecting their signature style, featuring the pick of the season’s crop and regional produce from the British Isles.

On the evening of my visit, Nathan Outlaw was the guest chef.  Head-chef of The St Enodoc Hotel, Rock, Cornwall, Outlaw was awarded 2 Michelin Stars in 2011, and his eponymous restaurant has also been named this year as the Best Seafood Restaurant in the UK by The Good Food Guide.

At this event at Fortnum & Mason, the two-course lunch was priced at £27.00, or £33.00 for 3 courses, with a three course dinner at £53.00.  The tasting menu at his restaurant, in contrast, is priced at £75 per person, so this represented, on the face of it, good value without a many hours' slog down to Cornwall.

The dishes we sampled on our visit are shown below.

Crispy Porthilly Oyster, Oyster Mayonnaise, Pickled Cucumber Salad

Beetroot Cured Salmon, Horseradish Cream and Treacle Bread

Roast Scallop, Herb Emulsion, Bacon and Onion Bread

Brill, English Mustard Dressing, Char grilled Leeks and Brown Shrimps

Gurnard, Squid, Fennel Salami and Orange Salad

Lemon Meringue Trifle

Espresso Custard Tart, Pistachio Ice Cream

Selection of Cornish Cheeses with Pickled Celery, Fig and Apple Chutney, Sesame and Poppy Seed Crackers

The food was exceptionally good, particularly the scallops, gurnard and lemon meringue.  I believe this represented exceptionally good value, considering the quality of fish and seafood, in a four-course dinner cooked by a multi award-winning chef.