Intrude
The middle of October was met by return to The Gardener's Cottage. This once condemned to rot graveyard garden, has now blossomed
into an entrance which invites your black boots to stroll in the late autumn moonlight,directly through a well-trained vegetable patch.
A thick felt curtain greets your intrusion as you grip down
on the iron handle and enter. Feeling the size immediately, you shrink down to manoeuvre
through the narrow corridor, packed with extra ingredients and wine. The
cottage has two rooms consisting of four long tables and to save space, the
Kitchen is alive in front of your eyes.
From the Kitchin to Falko konditori, The Gardener’s cottage
has the experience from the blade to the spoon. The menu is a set six course
meal, though if any dietary concerns are there, or joining your eve are stereotypical
Irish decision making (with a set course meal you thought decisions were easy!!)
the chefs will change it to suit you, with no reduction in the quality of your meals.
Lucky hand
Before the set course starts, slices of sourdough bread and
pheasant pate find their way to the table, as a brambly apple juice lightly stings the
tongue.
Smoked haddock soup greets with well-balanced flavours.
Putting the leg of the recently departed partridge through the incisors forms a
sharp smile. As you place the partridge’s herb infused foot/claw upon the
plate (unless you vice the flesh from the feet), a pickled pear and onion purée
give a caramelised contrast away from the meat.Gilt-edged Gluttony
Moving to the dessert end, an Apple & Sloe berry sorbet cools
in fruitful motion while a gin cream cleans the palette softly.
A cheese
dedicated to New order’s hit ‘Blue Monday’ created by ex-blur bassist Alex James,
is fantastic to put subtly. Accompanied by crackers and chutney, the taste buds that sat dormant for last sequence have now been reactivated.
Depart
Bringing the evening to a close with hay ice cream where you
can feel the bristles amongst your mind and murderous slice of carrot cake
sided with sea buckthorn-carrot mousse. This evenings theatre has come to a
close, as the curtain is drawn on your way out.
The cost for the evening starts at 30, continuing through on
wine, you can kind of tell the bill. Though for the experience, daily changing
menu and quality this is by far one very good evening.
Review by Dominic Lynch
