Barbecued lobster, fermented tomatoes, sea buckthorn & chervil butter (Key & Quill)
Valentine’s Day from chef Will Devlin at The Small Holding, Kent and The Curlew, Sussex
Chef Will Devlin has created two special Valentine’s Day menus from his restaurants The Small Holding in Kilndown, Kent and The Curlew in Bodiam, Sussex. Both menus are exceptional dining experiences safely delivered to your doorstep while all the prep and hard work has been done, meaning all that is needed is to add the finishing touches, plate up, and enjoy.
Using the best from the farm, land and sea starting with a bottle of English sparkling the menus include home-cured trout, pickled oysters, lobster and venison and of course, chocolate. Each of these elements come with full and easy instructions from chef Will Devlin.
Each menu is available to pre-order now on The Small Holding’s website, until 5pm on 10 February, for local delivery on 13 February.
Valentine’s Menu from The Small Holding
Bottle of Squerryes 2016
Bacon & onion brioche, cultured butter
Oysters pickled in wild garlic vinegar
Wild venison, salt baked celeriac, preserved vegetables
Barbecued lobster, fermented tomatoes, sea buckthorn & chervil butter
Creedy Carver duck breast, slow cooked leg, roasted squash, seaweed sauce
Miso & chocolate pudding, blackcurrant jam
Arthur Allsop’s Winter Truffle Camembert
£180 for two
Valentine’s Menu from The Curlew
Bottle of Oastbrook Sparkling Rose
Gin cured trout, fennel salami from The Small Holding, kimchi squash dumplings
45-day aged rib of beef, triple cooked chips with smoked rosemary salt, winter salad & Sussex Blue cheese sauce
Double chocolate & salted caramel shortbread, preserved cherries, meadowsweet cream
£120 for two
About The Small Holding
Will Devlin, 32, is the chef owner of The Small Holding, a kitchen and farm on a country lane in the village of Kilndown on the Kent and East Sussex borders. The 26-cover restaurant was voted the best restaurant in Kent at the Taste of Kent Awards and is set in one acre of land, permitting a unique connection between farm and table. Growing, foraging and cooking the best ingredients is at the core of The Small Holding, with daily changing menus, using home-reared and home-grown ingredients from the farm, which is less than 10ft from the kitchen.
www.thesmallholding.restaurant
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Ranters Lane | Kilndown | Kent | TN17 2SG
For more information, images, interview or to visit The Small Holding, please contact Hannah Blake hannah@thediningroompr.co.uk | 07730 039361
Praise for The Small Holding
A group of folk growing amazing things, then pulling them out of the ground, sometimes knobbly and lumpy, then cooking and serving them. It’s perfectly imperfect and I wouldn’t change a thing.” Grace Dent, The Guardian
“The menu reads like a list of all that is good in a British Larder. Self-sufficiency, careful sourcing, purity of intent and an absolute focus on flavour. It’s easy to fall in love with The Small Holding for the warmth of the staff, its good intent and deft execution.” Tony Turnbull, The Times