Fava, Sun & Holey Toast

Welcome to the House of the Riesling Sun, Abode de Aligoté, Salazar Slyvaner, Chateau Lafleet, welcome to the Wine House, welcome to the Quality Wines newsletter.

At lunch this week ripe & juicy melons from the Po basin are seasoned with Amalfi lemon & espelette pepper. Santorini fava is served with peppers, olives & oregano, whilst Summer staple of caponata gets another day in sun.

A Salade Niç(k)oise forgoes green beans & spuds and focuses fresh. Peak tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers & spring onions are enriched with tuna & anchovies, the best of the store cupboard. A tagliatelle with girolles, recent heat meaning the fungi are resplendent & abundant, is sauced with butter & Parmesan for indulgence & decadence. ‘Tonno del Chiant’, a confusingly named preparation of pork, comes atop borlotti beans & salsa verde.

2 courses for £29

A selection of cakes, cannolo, ice creams & sorbets to tempt a third course for an additional £6.

At dinner Cornish Red chickens are roasted with fennel & saffron. A punchy rouille is smeared on a toast of yesterday’s focaccia. Sitting beneath the birds, collecting juices, biding time, accumulating knowledge, the coop de gras.

A Greek salad, a hand-dived scallop in Café de Paris butter, fasolakia with tzatziki, zucchini flowers, turbots and more await your arrival. Hoping to see you all soon.

Marcos, Nick & the Team.