Featuring wine-based gaming, a dessert pop-up and an ovine supper club.
Monday 4th March
51 Degrees presents: Hunters & Gatherers @ The Rooftop Café
For their launch night last month, food event curators 51 degrees served 60 hungry gourmands a menu of Nordic-themed dishes, ales and cocktails. This month, they’re focusing on prime British produce and celebrating all things local with the Princess of Shoreditch head chef Shaun O'Rourke at the helm. You’ll get a glass of English sparkling rose wine on arrival, followed by a succession of taster courses – featuring Essex saffron and Cornish seafood – as well as a cheese tasting from Greenwich-based mongers, Cheeseboard. All held in the Rooftop Cafe (directly below The Shard) with a great view of the London skyline to boot.
Tickets are available online at £20 (plus booking fee).
Monday 4th March
Whose Wine Is it Anyway? @ Le Cafe Anglais
Launching in March, Whose Wine is Is Anyway? is a new monthly event for oenophiles, courtesy of wine connoisseurs WineChap. After tasting five different wines with accompanying antipasti dishes, contestants will be given a range of questions to answer ranging from the easy (‘is it red or white?’), to the medium (‘new or old world?’) and hard (‘Bordeaux or Burgundy?’). Get it wrong and you're off the hook and can sit down; the last person standing gets a bottle of Bollinger. A fun opportunity to show off your wine knowledge without boring everyone to tears.
Tickets are £30 including nibbles and wine, and an exclusive two-course dinner is available for ticket-holders afterwards, for £20. To book either call Le Cafe Anglais on 020 7221 1415 or email info@lecafeanglais.co.uk.
Fri 8th & Sat 9th/Fri 22nd & Sat 23rd March
After Hours @ Store St Espresso
A new event from the people behind The Mince Pie Project, After Hours is a dessert-only pop-up, held in a coffee shop in Bloomsbury. Sample dishes include ‘Chocolate ganache, salted caramel, peanut butter, peanut brittle, milk panna cotta’ and ‘Banana and lime ice cream, roasted banana, brown butter puree, caramel glass’ (pictured). They’ve also teamed up with ace Hoxton cocktail bar Happiness Forgets, who have created a special cocktail for the drinks menu, to go alongside a short selection of sweet and sparkling wine. If you’re having dinner in the area, why not skip pudding and finish up here?
Dessert, coffee & petit fours cost £10, and a tasting menu of three desserts, coffee & petit fours is £20. Reservations can be made via email at pete@afterhoursdessert.com. At least half the tables will be reserved for walk-ins.
Wednesday 13th March
Ovine and Wine at the Jugged Hare
The Jugged Hare are holding a supper club on the 13th March to celebrate the humble sheep. The menu for 'Ovine and Wine' has been put together by Jugged Hare chef Richard O'Connell and Ben Weatherall, of The Blackface Meat Company and Yorkshire Game. The supper club aims to showcase the sheep in all stages from lamb to hogget, mutton and ewe cheese, with dishes including milk-fed lamb tartar, slow braised mutton shank & kidney shepherd’s pie and rack of lamb with a confit shoulder bomb. We’re not quite sure what a confit shoulder bomb is but if involves melting bits of lamb shoulder slowly cooked in fat – we’re right behind it!
Costs £75 head for five courses with matched wines. Call the Jugged Hare on 020 7614 0134 to reserve.
Sunday 17th-Monday 18th March
The Real Wine Fair & Unfiltered Dog pop-up @ Tobacco Dock
The Real Wine fair champions small wine growers, who work organically and aim to make wines that taste true to the vineyard and region. There will be seminars and tastings where you can talk to growers from all over the world about their wine, while snacking on dishes from some of London’s best restaurants and food producers including Duck Soup, Zucca, Donostia and the E5 Bakehouse. The team behind top French wine bar Terroirs is also running a two-day dinner pop-up there on 17th and 18th March called the Unfiltered Dog, with an extensive wine list featuring many of the fair’s growers, plus a short menu with sharing platters of charcuterie, oysters and cheese; and small plates like quail, burnt leeks and romesco; scallops and XO sauce; crispy pork belly with kimchi and banana bread and salted butter caramel.
Real Wine Fair tickets are available for £15 online or £20 on the door. The Unfiltered Dog isn’t included and you can book it separately by calling Terroirs on 0207 036 0660.
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