Starters

I like to give customers the feeling that the minutes they set eyes on the menu they know exactly what time of the year it is. The starter menu, in particular, lends itself perfectly to adapting with the seasons.

Starters are a great platform for celebratory ingredients, such as our homegrown asparagus, which I always feature strongly. Indeed I think nothing of having four asparagus dishes on the menu during the vegetables’s short late-spring/early summer season. Fortunately, the season isn’t quite as short as it used to be, now that our asparagus growers are doing their utmost to bring their crops on earlier and stretch them out a bit at the other end of the season.