Slow Food London

Italian cheese, meat, wine and fabulous company Tuesday 16 March

We return to Gastronomica for our eat and greet Tuesday 16th March 18.30 - 20.30  - an informal and intimate space to enjoy Italian regional cheeses and cured meats with a glass or two of wine.

Come chat to the committee about food and drink events you'd like to attend. Interested in food education or school meals or sustainability - have a drink and tell us. Join us every 3rd Tuesday at our monthly drop in.

£10 members/unemployed/students
£12 non members
includes antipasti buffet and drinks - pay on the night

Gastronomica
45 Tachbrook St
Pimlico
London SW1V 2LZ

nearest tube: Pimlico -  Victoria line

Join us at our greet and eat Tuesday 16 February @ Gastronomica Italian deli

We return to Gastronomica for our 3rd eat and greet Tuesday 16th February 18.30 - 20.30  - an informal and intimate space to enjoy Italian regional cheeses and cured meats with a glass or two of wine.

Come chat to the committee about food and drink events you'd like to attend. Interested in food education or school meals or sustainability - have a drink and tell us. Join us every 3rd Tuesday at our monthly drop in and chase away the winter blues.

£10 members/unemployed/students
£12 non members
includes antipasti buffet and drinks - pay on the night

Gastronomica
45 Tachbrook St
Pimlico
London SW1V 2LZ

nearest tube: Pimlico -  Victoria line

Taste tapas the Portuguese way with wine

Now fully booked!

Join us and Miguel Leal of speciality wine importers Casa Leal as we explore Petiscos - the Portuguese refinement of tapas -  with wine at the Dispensary, a superb converted Victorian hospital in Aldgate on Tuesday March 9, 2010 at 18:45.

We'll be eating 8 Petiscos with 8 Decanter-award-winning wines from Casa Leal, Britain’s leading Portuguese wine supplier. Miguel Leal, Casa Leal’s proprietor and acknowledged connoisseur, will guide the evening.

The Pesticos will be prepared by Dave Cambridge, the chef proprietor of the Dispensary and former private chef to the Rothschild Family.  Unfortunately we are not providing vegetarian alternatives because it is not operationally feasible, and culturally inauthentic.

Menu

Dressed monkfish cheeks
wine: Ex Libris Sparkling White

Poached salt cod with onion and potato accompaniment
wine: Gloria Alvarinho White

Grilled sardines with tomato compote
wine: Filoco Reserva White

Mediterranean prawns seasoned with chilli, garlic and olive oil
wine: Arca Nova Rose 

Peri-Peri aromatic chicken 
wine: Pousio Rose

Squid with shrimp stuffing
wine: Monte da Ravasquiera Red

Pork and clam medley
wine: Conde d’Ervideira Red 

Beef in madeira sauce
wine: Quinta das Cerejeiras Red

Cost -  £23 members/ £25 non-members. Please book by Friday March 5

The Dispensary
19a Leman Street London E1 8EN 

Nearest tube:
Aldgate East - District Line
Aldgate - Metropolitan Line
Liverpool St - Central Line

Thanks to Vini Portugal, the professional body for Portuguese wines, for sponsoring our event. This enables us to offer the event at remarkably-reduced prices.

Single malt whisky tasting & dinner for Burns night 25 January 2010

Mmmmm, join us for a single malt whisky tasting and the traditional Burns night meal for haggis lovers.

These are top, award winning whiskies that will be introduced by Michael Hopert from Royal Mile Whiskies. We'll sample them with cheese, plus you can book for an optional traditional Burns night meal. I can't wait! The tasting is at 18:30, dinner at 20.00.

 
Whisky tasting list

• Rosebank 1991 Connoisseurs Choice - matured in a mixture of sherry and bourbon casks 43%

• Bruichladdich 16 Bourbon Cask - classic single Islay malt whisky, 100% bourbon-matured 16yo, spends most of its life maturing in former Jim Beam casks, before being finished in premium Buffalo Trace oak

• Linkwood 1990 Signatory 43% - release is limited to 871 bottles, a light, floral Speyside

• Longrow 14 - from a combination of bourbon and sherry casks a rich and smoky dram

• Ardbeg Uigeadail - was rewarded whisky of the year 2007 by Jim Murray, writer of the whisky bible

Optional traditional Burns night menu £15

Scottish diver caught scallops in a broth of the sea
 
Haggis, neaps & tatties (veggie haggis available)
- the haggis is being especially made  by Classic Butchers. Classic Butchers own Allan's (Butchers) of Mayfair, and supply meat to Claridges, The Connaught, The Dorchester and others
 
Cranachan

Venue: Restaurant @ The Casino at the Empire
5-6 Leicester Square WC2H 7NA

Time: 18:30

Cost:

Whisky tasting only £22 members/ £27 non-members

£15 optional dinner supplement
How to book for the whisky visit

Christmas Slow Food Market on the Southbank

Buy your Christmas goodies in a relaxed and festive market with the warm glow that they have been carefully produced from known and sustainable sources

Saturday 19 - Tuesday 22 December 2009
11.00 - 20.00 (closes 18.00 on Sunday & Monday)
Free admission

We will be running some super special Azerbaijan food events plus cooking and tasting demos sponsered by the Southbank BUTA festival of Azerbaijani Arts.

Visit the demo tent for free tips on Christmas menus.

Enjoy:

• special Azerbaijan food events

• sample Azerbaijan food & wine at our taste Azerbaijan evening in the demo tent - £7

• best of British

• mulled wine

• gourmet vegetarian

Check out our free demonstrations: all demonstrations may be subject to last minute change

Saturday
12.00    London artisan caterer Sarah Moore will demonstrate how to make Christmas canapes and still enjoy yourself!   
13.00    See Darren skin and butcher a Sika deer with the well hung one – Brendan of Northfields farm - butchering a native breed pig and lamb   
14.00    to be advised   
15.00    to be advised   
16.00    begin: Taste the exotic. Azerbaijan!
17.00    £7 for hot food & fruit wines
18.00    Drop in and try traditional Azerbaijani recipies
19.00    drumming, dolmas, discussion, vodka
20.00    finish: Taste the exotic. Azerbaijan!   
       
Sunday       
13.00    London artisan caterer Sarah Moore will demonstrate how to make Christmas canapes and still enjoy yourself!   
14.00    to be advised   
15.00    BUTA sponsered Azerbaijani cooking   
16.00    Balvenie single malt whiskey tasting   
17.00    to be advised   

Monday       
13.00    Masterchef Steven Wallis interprets Azerbaijani cooking: pigeon dolmas with smoked aubergine caviar, golden yoghurt & pomegranate seeds 
14.00    Tim Clements from  Rainha Santa hog roast demonstrates how to cook hog roast   
15.00    BUTA sponsered Azerbaijani cooking   
16.00    Balvenie single malt whiskey tasting   
17.00    to be advised   

Tuesday       
13.00    to be advised   
14.00    Richard Hayward Oysters tasting   
15.00    BUTA sponsered Azerbaijani cooking   
16.00    Balvenie single malt whiskey tasting   

30+ specially selected traders:

Arabica food & spice
Ash Green Organics - fruit and veg
Balvenie whisky
bean and gone
Casa de l'Oli
Choc Star
Cornish Meadows - tasty traditional preserves
Flour Power - artisan bread
Game for Everything - a specialist game catering company based in rural Kent and run by head chef Mark Gilchrist
Gastronomica - Italian deli
La Fromagerie - French cheese
La Ludesana -  products from Lombardy
Manna Cakes
Merry Widows Wine
Mersea Island vineyards & brewery
Neals Yard Dairy
Norfolk & Suffolk speciality foods - fruit chutneys inspired by the traditions of South Asia
Northfield Farm - pork & beef
Orchid Apiaries - English honey
The Polish Deli London
Rana Santa Hog roast
Richard Hayward Oysters - Colchester Native Oysters & Gigas Oysters from  Mersea
Shellseekers - live Dorset lobster, free range geese and free range bronze turkeys, partridge, pheasant and rabbit, diver caught scallops, fresh fish, available for pre-order
Traditional Bratwurst
The Veggie Table - delicious hot take away food
Traditional Beef Company
Woodwards Farm - beef, eggs and jam
Uto beer - specialist beer importer plus English ales

Southbank Centre Square
Belvedere Road SE1 8XX
London