The offer of this private dinner came though an a rather simple email asking if I was interested in cooking a birthday dinner for around sixteen people all of whom loved wine. Attached was an outline of the flights of wines to be served and the vintages. Latour, Petrus, Grange, DRC the list was incredible and far to tantalising not to say yes too. So armed with this list I set about trying to create a series of dishes that may work with the differing flights. A menu, not too far off what was eventually served, was sent to the client. Then the process of “tweeking” was undertaken. A fish dish added and a pork croquette replaced, a lamb course dropped and the foie gras ice cream added as requested. The order of dishes was changed to reflect the wines and the oysters and sashimi added a a shared starter rather than a course. Waitstaff, crockery and food was ordered, organised and prepared.

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