Ris e Business

Greetings Qualitistas! Welcome to the weekend and the Quality Wines newsletter. The greens are greening, tomatoes titillating, melons multiplying, zuchinis not zuckerbergs, salads of the Nice persuasion. No reformation. That time of year is here for one more year. We’ve got the feeling.

Cruising onto the set lunch menu a Venetian dish of Risi e Bisi, both a delight to eat & exclaim. Rice & fresh peas combine to produce a dish traversing the worlds of soup and risotto. All’onda, on the waves.

Elsewhere on our £27, 3 course lunch offering: Zucchini farinata is topped with ricotta & pinenuts, melon draped with coppa and asparagus gets a tomato & anchovy beurre blanc, the spear du jour.

For your main, a salade niçoise. Tuna, egg, beans, tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce, potatoes, lettuce, olives, anchovies. All of the things, all of the time. Cult classic & best seller. Iberico pork necks are braised with chickpeas & sobrassada. Pliant & porky, soft & satisfying. The first of the Summer swine.

Fresh tagliatelle is best dressed in ragu di cortile. A white base, sofrito and the best bits & bobs of beef, pork, rabbit & chicken are minced & combined. A bonanza of beasts. Fair is fowl, as are pigs, cows & wabbits.

In the evening whole John Dory’s (sans head, no plates big enough) get all Greeked with peppers, fridge cold tzatziki & wild oregano.

Next week will be last of our chicken and ‘nduja panino. Available at lunch and between 5-7pm, with a beer for £10!

New sandwich details to follow….

Finally, on Sunday the 31st of May we are very excited to welcome Rahel Stephanie to cook with Nick & the Team. Founder of Indonesian supper club Spoons, Rahel is on a mission to put regional Indonesian food firmly on the map in London, using her cooking to reclaim, celebrate and share the dishes of her heritage and upbringing in Jakarta.

Bookings are open and going fast so get in touch!

So, let’s get those spirits up! Sip sip a Tsipouro, grapple a grappa, marc the occasion!

Bon weekender to you & yours. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Marcos, Nick & the Team.

Marcos, Nick & the Team