12 takeaway meals you need in your life
Duck & Waffle Chef Director Dan Doherty designs 12 meals inspired by Sky Atlantic shows including: Game of Thrones, Fortitude, Britannia and Billions. Brings a whole new meaning to the term, TV dinners…
Fortitude’s bloody second season depicted in arctic meringue and blood-red lingonberry coulis with a syringe side-serving mysteriously labelled ‘Reindeer Juice’.
Ever wondered what Game of Thrones would look like as a plate of food? Well now you don’t have to as award-winning chef Dan Doherty, Executive Chef at London’s highest restaurant, Duck & Waffle, has designed 12 dishes inspired by the dramas coming to Sky Atlantic in 2017.
Entitled The Drama Kitchen, this pop-up takeaway will give fans the chance to get their hands on their favourite show as a limited edition meal from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 January.
However, this isn’t just food – this is drama on a plate. To complement and enhance the TV viewing experience, each dish uses ingredients and flavours that embody the show and is served alongside special props that whimsically nod to the drama.
From “The Tin Star”, delivered with a bottle of fir pine spray to evoke the smell of its Rocky Mountain setting, to “The Fortitude” with its mammoth artic meringue and a bloody side-serving of psychedelic Reindeer Juice.
Take a tour of the seven kingdoms with “The Game of Thrones” theatrical seven course taster menu, a set of dishes designed to divide tastebuds as well as allegiances, as your tongue battles to reconcile the warring flavours.
Seven dishes for seven kingdoms, in the seventh season for £27.77…there’s a theme here.
Or take a bite out of Twin Peaks, where slow-cooked lamb belly in a cherry glaze pays homage to the much loved original series with its own damn fine coffee crumb in a dish priced at a nifty £3.15.
Mmm, that’s a damn fine coffee crumb…
All dishes are available exclusively from Deliveroo:
http://news.deliveroo.co.uk/th... menus below. The Drama Kitchen will be open from 26 – 29 January 2017 from 5.00pm – 10.30pm, delivering big-screen drama to your door.
The Drama Kitchen Menu
By Dan Doherty
Tasting menu
The Game of Thrones
Take a culinary tour of the Seven Kingdoms, from Flea Bottom to the swamps of the Neck, in this seven course tasting menu.
• ‘Lamprey' Pie - Smoked eel and ham hock pie
• Crannogmen Supper – Frogs’ leg delicacy from the Neck
• Ramsay's Chop - Roasted pork and apple sausage with Iron Islands sauce
• Catch of the Canals - Clam and cockle croquettes with oyster leaf
• Bowl o' Brown – Flea Bottom meat stew served in the slums of King's Landing
• Gored Baratheon Boar - Wild boar salami with pickles
• Flagon at the Crossroads - a bottle of honey mead
All in all, a feast worth fighting for.
Mains
The Billions
Two NYC classics - mac 'n' cheese and Caesar salad - meet Maine lobster, caviar, black truffle and gold leaf. Much like the wealth of this show's powerful kingpin, this rich and decadent experience will corrupt more than just your senses.
Served with a bottle of Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique Cask Strength, because as Chuck Rhoades puts it, “the Taiwanese do it better than the Scots these days.”
This dish arrives on a bed of ‘billion’ dollar notes to give you a taste of protagonist Bobby Axelrod’s high life in more ways than one.
The Tin Star
BBQ dry-rub pork belly with a rich bourbon glaze, flame-tossed potato and onion, wild mushrooms, pork-seasoned beans simmer with burning intensity. Much like one man's obsession with avenging a murder in the remote beauty of the Rocky Mountains. In this case, revenge is a dish best served hot.
Served with a Balsam Fir aroma to evoke the Rocky Mountains while you dine. Don your sheriff’s t-shirt and join our protagonist on his all-consuming quest for revenge in the town of Little Big Bear.
The Riviera
This intoxicating dish of truffle-stuffed chicken breast, sundrenched tomatoes and baby vegetables is steamed in white wine and cream. Served en papillote, as it unfolds experience the violence, lies and murder of the opulent French Riviera as discovered by a young widow reeling from the murder of her billionaire husband.
The Tunnel
Combining the coastal cuisines of England and France, this dish pairs Cornish stew with moules, rouille and garlic bread in surprising harmony. This reflects the relationship between the show’s two very different lead characters, from either side of the channel, who must collaborate to solve an intensely difficult crime.
Served in a combination Union Jack and Tricolour flag to symbolise the co-operation and combination of the two nations’ respective police forces in this gripping thriller.
The Guerrilla
This dish of jerk seasoned sweet potato, refried Pinto beans, charred corn, tomato and coriander salsa and spiced plantain chips releases the underground current of 1970s London. The flavours mirror the politically explosive backdrop to the show, a time when an undercover cell resisted the authorities and fought for its identity.
Served with your own personal pass to HM London Prison. You’ve been cleared to visit political prisoners in this time of huge unrest from April – when the action really kicks off.
Freida Pinto stars in Guerrilla while re-fried Pinto beans star on the plate.
The Twin Peaks
Damn good slow-cooked lamb belly that comes with cherry glaze, coffee and dark chocolate crumb, and grilled sprouting broccoli. Like the show this dish has a twist at every turn, as it explores the gulf between the veneer of small-town respectability and its hidden underbelly.
Served on a bed of cherries.
The Ray Donovan
A unique solution to satisfy any appetite - a fully-loaded burger, Cajun salt fries and mac 'n' cheese croquettes. Courtesy of Ray Donovan, a man of immeasurable talents and 'fixer' of problems for Hollywood's rich and famous. Through a fine blend of bribes, payoffs and threats, he makes your issues (and your hunger) disappear.
The bag or the bat? Plating up food like Ray plates up intimidation
The Britannia
Wild boar haunch meets red wine, nettle pesto, caponata and lentil and pancetta ragout, as worlds collide in a clash of flavours. A culinary nod to 43AD, when the mighty Imperial Roman army invaded ancient Britain, a land ruled by warring Celtic tribes and powerful Druids.
Served with temporary tattoos so you can choose your tribe. Strike fear into your enemies by adorning your face with icons as the Celts and Druid might have or pledge your allegiance to the Roman Empire and mark your body with eagles and centurion helmets.
Desserts
The Fortitude
A mammoth portion of Arctic meringue, with white chocolate crumble and anise marinated berries. As the stunning wilderness is shattered by more unsettling violence, this meringue snowscape mirrors the intense brutality as it runs blood-red with lingonberry coulis.
Served with a syringe of ‘Reindeer Juice’, the name of the powerful hallucinogenic featured in series two. But don’t worry – ours is just lingonberry coulis. Spill across the meringue shards and watch as the blood-red coulis soaks the fragile white surface, foreshadowing the violence to come.
The Divorce
This tangy lemon curd pavlova with whipped cream and candied lemon is the perfect palate cleanser – a dessert the stars of the show could use. Grappling with the effects of their failing marriage, making a clean break and starting anew is sometimes harder than you think. Unlike the breakup, this dessert doesn't leave a bitter taste
Big Little Lies
These sea-salted caramel muffins, served with champagne frosting, hide a secret at their heart. The perfect accompaniment to the show based on the hit novel, as three ladies share secrets and lies which hover just under the surface of a seemingly perfect small beachside town.
Served with a Reese’s edible spoon – pun intended – so you can easily dig to the heart of the muffins and release the mystery contained therein.
ENDS
For further information / interviews / images:
Beth Colmer beth@hellounity.com 020 7440 9810
Robyn Swan robyn@hellounity.com 020 7440 9810
Teresa Beeley teresa@hellounity.com 020 7440 9810
NOTES TO EDITORS
About The Drama Kitchen
Food from ‘The Drama Kitchen’ will be freshly prepared using specially sourced ingredients at the Social Pantry in Battersea, London and in the interest of the quality of the food, this is only available in the Battersea, Wandsworth and some areas of Clapham, as per its usual Deliveroo delivery area.
See http://news.deliveroo.co.uk/thedramakitchen/ for details.
For more information please see further details listed on the website
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About Dan Doherty
Dan Doherty is an award-winning chef and the Chef Director at the prestigious restaurant, Duck & Waffle - London’s first 24-7 gourmet dining restaurant, since 2012. Since his tenure at Duck & Waffle, Doherty has been credited with bringing a rich and colourful past to the restaurant, and a rare zeal and vivacity manifested in the energy of his team and the flavours of his menu, which pays homage to classic British cookery.
He has recently released his first cookery book ‘Toast Hash Roast Mash: Real Food for Every Time of Day’, which was featured in ‘Best Cookbooks of the Year’ selections in the Observer Food Monthly, BBC Good Food, The Mail on Sunday, Great British Food and Red magazine.
Charles and his group are currently working on problems associated with the design of foods that maximally stimulate the senses (and has worked together with top chefs such as Heston Blumenthal, and Ferran Adria’s Alicia Foundation in Spain).