Gourmet Night with Valentine Warner
Thursday 14th October
Valentine Warner will be hosting a special gourmet night at the hotel on the opening day of the Falmouth Oyster Festival 2010.
Valentine is a food writer and cook with a passion for nature, the seasons and the outdoors. In September 2008 Valentine burst on to our TV screens with his hit series ‘What to Eat Now’.
Valentine will guide guests through his culinary adventures and love of oysters. It will be a unique opportunity to meet and talk food with one of the country’s up and coming food enthusiasts.
£69 per person
Inclusive of 5 courses with wines to match each course
Plus a special Oyster Reception with Falmouth's oyster fishermen, plus Valentine's own Oyster recipe
Book your table now - 01326 312707
Gourmet Night Menu
On Arrival
Oyster Reception:
Oysters shucked by the Falmouth oystermen
Plus Valentine Warner’s Japanese style oysters
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Amuse Bouche
Cornish crab and mussels broth
Or
Wild mushroom and garlic soup
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Starters
Tian of whiskey smoked pollack with cockles and clams
Cucumber wafers, black rice vinegar dressing, salmon caviar
Or
Oven roast potato gnocchi
Beetroot, baby onions, fresh tomato and basil
Mains
Roast fillet of local turbot
Smoked haddock and spider crab potato cake, fine beans with saffron hollandaise, white truffle oil
Or
Rack of Cornish lamb
Fondant potato, Mediterranean vegetable and Serrano ham roulade, redcurrant and rosemary reduction
Or
Tartlet of Cornish brie and oven roast vegetables
Garlic and olive roast new potatoes, red pepper and tomato sauce
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Cheese
Trio of Cornish cheeses;
Helford Blue, Yarg and Brie
Fresh celery, grapes, red onion marmalade, home made walnut bread
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Dessert
Iced apple and blackcurrant parfait
Sweet apple fritter, bramble compote, calvados crème anglais
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Coffee and treats
Cornish orchard apple brandy truffle
Clotted cream shortbread
After eight macaroon
Subject to availablility of seasonal produce
