What: Seasonal and local 4 course meal, plus canapes, with matched wines
Chef: Matt Wilkinson
When: Thursday 1st December, 7 pm
Where: Pope Joan, 77-79 Nicholson Street, East Brunswick (96 Tram – stop 24 cnr Glenlyon Road)
How much: $115.00 a person (plus 30 cents booking fee) including wine.
Booking: Bookings (via TryBooking)
I sat down with Matt Wilkinson over the weekend to get some more details about the menu for 1st December.
We will be featuring forced rhubarb in two courses, one savoury one sweet. But first, as I had to listen to the Circle of Yorkshire Life, so now you will have to read it…
So, in Yorkshire, the largest county, in the north of England, they were blessed with grains to make beer, and so beer they made. At the end of hte process the leftover grain and mash was fed to the pigs, so happy pigs were grown, and happy pigs poo, The pig poo was used on the rhubarb plots to grow the biggest bestest rhubarb in the world.
If you’ve even watched The Great British Menu you’ll know that rhubarb is known as *the* dessert ingredient. Rhubarb and Apple Crumble, Rhubarb and custard, Rhubarb jelly, Rhubarb pie.
So the plan so far (subject to change or seasonal variation) is something like this.
- a selection of canapes, bone marrow n stuff like that
- Cured duck breast, duck confit and all it’s bits with rhubarb sauce and fois gras
- White asparagus, ricotta, whey and grains with pork scratchings
- Pork, nasturtiums, parsnip
- Matt’s special rhubarb and custard with Nan’s crumble.
(NOTE: really this may change – we are very much subject to seasonal variation on this dinner)
And we are lining up a stella list of beverages to match. So far we have confirmed that the cider that will be a little beauty from Bress.
We’re dining at Pope Joan, with it’s lovely garden. Lots of room, so you might like to bring your friends along for a pre-silly season catch up.
