Lloyds
New Year's Eve Gala Dinner 2009
Canapés served with a glass of Churchill's white port, or
Tio Pepe or Hidalgo Clasica cream sherry:
Buckwheat blinis with sour cream & Scottish birch and juniper smoked
salmon with Onuga (please ask)
Swiss cheese allumettes
Chive pancake with crème fraîche & red onion confit
Rolled parsley frittatine with Arbroath smoked trout fillet & herbed cream cheese
Prosciutto-wrapped fig skewers
A glass of chilled cherry soup with a touch of cinnamon, made with
Jas D'Esclans Provençal organic rosé wine
Cornish lemon sole salad with tarragon cream sauce - deeply rooted in the
classic Savoy Hotel style, from its head chef for 25 years, Anton Edelmann
Consommé made with Wallace Red chicken (a slow-growing British breed), enriched with Pellegrino Marsala Superiore, accompanied by our parmesan & pine nut biscottini with organic Palestinian green olives
Tortellini filled with butternut squash and amaretti, garnished with exotic Hon-Shimeji, Shiro-Shimeji and flower shitake mushrooms and sage leaves - another Anton Edelmann recipe from the Savoy Hotel
Quail terrine, our own, with organic chicken breast &
Parma ham, accompanied by Robert Carrier's roasted pepper & lemon soufflé and a
grape sauce in the Greek style
(please don't ask!)
Inspired by Alice Waters, the co-founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, a passion fruit sherbet in a half of Charentais melon
Roast fillet of Casterbridge beef, "truly exceptional", from Broad Stripe Butchers, suppliers to Britain's top restaurants
Vegetable charlotte; Yorkshire potato puffs; shallots Agrodolce from Elizabeth David
Soufflé Rothschild, again a classic Savoy Hotel dish, introduced by Escoffier just before the turn of the nineteenth century, accompanied by burnt orange ice cream
A trio of mini post-desserts: apple galette, kiwi pavlova & chocolate truffle cake
A choice of various teas, herbal infusions, or coffee from freshly-ground Winter blend Arabica beans from The Mecca, Aberystwyth, accompanied by handmade chocolates from Rococo, The King's Road, Chelsea, and Duchy Originals Fruit and Liqueur truffles
To greet the New Year:
A glass of Baron de Beaupré Champagne
