A Summer Shindig!

It's a school night, but it's SO nearly the weekend we couldn't resist.

Pimms and BBQ on the 'terrace' - our flowering urban oasis in the heart of Shoreditch.

Three lovely courses, and all the fun and frolics of a Bootleg Banquet, on a Thursday night.

The Menu:
Pimms or pink lemonade on arrival

Sharing platters:
Sardines chermoulaChargrilled baby leeks (V)
Paneer skewers(V)
Peri-peri chicken wingsStickbread (V)
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Chargrilled Picanha (Brazilian-cut beef rump)
Tamales (V)
Chargrilled polenta skewers
Stuffed onions (V)
Roasted sweet potato, green chilli and pomegranate salad
Bulgar wheat salad
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Chargrilled pineapple skewers with chilli lime syrup, vanilla ice-cream
Spiked watermelon

Click HERE to book via Edible Experiences 

Big country, big flavours, big night

 

Eat and drink South Africa - April 29, 30

Chefs never stop talking about food and Pieter and I are no exception, but in the Bootleg Banquet kitchen in Shoreditch, we mostly talk about the foods, dishes and recipes of our African childhoods.

The stories wax and wane around Pieter’s Afrikaner roots – his mom's long, slow braises with fruit, vinegar and spices – and my English upbringing on the Eastern Cape coast where mielies, fresh fish and vetkoek with home-made apricot jam were always on the menu.

We've come a long way since then but the warmth and generosity (and sunshine) of South Africa is still the backbone of everything we do.

So we’re celebrating the big flavours of the Big Continent - in honour of Freedom Day and UK polling day for the May election - in our supperclub kitchen, collaborating with our great friend and Hout Bay boytjie Grant Hawthorne (of the fiery and addictive African Volcano periperi sauce without which no poached egg, prawn or pulled-pork sandwich is complete), and Jean-Louis Holtzhauzen, from The Cape Wine Academy in London.

We invite you to come along for a full-on five-course tasting menu with matched wines. And of course we'll be lighting the fire. We hope to stir your taste-buds with remembered flavours and introduce a few new ones too - it all adds up to a fabulous night!

THE MENU:



Mini vetkoek stuffed with snoek pate
Boschendal Le Grand Pavillion Brut Rose
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Firecracker prawn salad with lemon, oregano, feta and African Volcano peri peri
(V: Watermelon, feta, oregano, peri-peri crouton)
AA Badenhorst Secateur White/Chenin Blanc 2013
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Kerrievis, buttermilk potato salad, groenboontjies 
Euvrard Family Wines Orangerie White 2011
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Springbok pie with cloves, vinegar, nutmeg, soetpatat
Kloof Street Rouge 2011 (Mullineaux Wines)
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Braai:  chicken sosatie, lamb chop, skilpaadjie, boerewors with pap and tomatiebredie, chakalaka
(V: vegetable sosaties, corn on the cob, with pap and tomato bredie, chakalaka)
Hughes Family Nativo Red Blend 2008
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Dessert medley: koeksuster, peppermint crisp tart, Don Pedro
Mullineux Family Straw wine 2009


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Three-course Thursdays - relaxed, informal midweek dining

Our famous supperclub nights take place in our Shoreditch catering kitchen – a real, hardworking industrial space – where the ambience is created with artful lighting, flowers, linens and a finely crafted soundtrack, to deliver a feast for the senses. The open kitchen affords you a most intimate view of your dinner being prepared – a very exclusive chefs’ table. 

Now we bring you Three-Course Thursdays –relaxed, informal monthly evenings with our trademark amazing food and atmosphere, in a condensed format for a weeknight.
Our menus are seasonal, hearty and delicious – see some samples below – and you can bring your own drinks with no corkage charge. Dietary requirements are also catered for (just mention it when booking).

Reasonably priced for a great night out, it’s not a pub, it’s not a restaurant, it’s the best of all possible worlds!

£37.50pp (including booking fee) Click here to book

The menu

Prosecco on arrival
 

Char-grilled squid and roast tomato salad with rocket, lemon and smoked chilli (V: Char-grilled aubergine, Buffalo mozzarella, rocket and smoked chilli)

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Pork belly slow roasted with sultanas, fresh bay, sherry vinegar and sherry. With smashed celeriac and potato (V: Yemiste - Greek stuffed and baked tomato, Tsatziki and dressed spinach)

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Rhubarb tarte tatin with orange crème anglais

Coffee and fresh mint tea

Bloody Valentine

Our next public event

Do you love Love but hate Valentine's Day?

Terrible romantics that we are, we think there are better ways to spend February 14 than uncomfortable silences and uneasy eye-contact over a table for two with a bored waiter watching the clock and a menu that doesn't set your world alight .. 

So we're Bootlegging the cheesiest day of the year the only way we know how, with great food, great atmosphere and great company - yours, we hope.

There may be flowers and candlelight, but there won't be schmaltz or shizzle and there won't be tables for two. Bring your single friends, come as a threesome, maybe meet some new people - our supperclub is warm, welcoming and inclusive.

The menu:

Prosecco on arrival

Game bird table - sharing platters of tea-smoked quail, spicy tomato pickle, warm rosemary foccaccia, cheese croquettes, black bean coriander cakes, sour cream dip

Saucy seafood - a warm salad with mussels, clams, squid

(v: smoked aubergine, herbed yoghurt dressing, winter leaves)

Heartwarming oxtail, polenta, winter greens

(v: field mushroom ragout) 

Blood orange jelly, poached rhubarb, vanilla cream

Tickets are £42pp plus booking fee, through Edible Experiences

To Book : http://www.edibleexperiences.com/p/70/Bootleg-Banquet/497002/Bloody-Valentine