First Night

First night done! Nobody, except me thought we would be able to serve anyone yesterday. At least not at 3pm. The site still looked like a building site with dust and all furniture still wrapped.

At 6 pm, the builders were still painting. Then, at 6.30, the chairs and the tables were put into place and it looked like this:

I felt a joy when we started. I have always wanted to do this. It was a bit chaotic at times. We are understaffed in the kitchen and I have no clue were to find things since I have not had time to involve myself in putting the cooking the cookware and utensils in place. I screwed up the cooking of some beef that we had to redo. And well some of the sea bass was undercooked because I have not yet quite made friends with the combi-steamer. The fish was of stunning quality. If I can continue to get fish of that quality, I will be very happy.

Tonight we are going to do a short a la carte menu. First courses will be gazpacho with dill seed ice cream,  scallops with seaweed butter, scallops sashimi-style and slow cooked duck egg with banyuls emulsion and leaves. Main courses will be turbot, beef and pork. Not sure what there will be as garnishes. Will try now to see if the potatoes we have will make good fries. Desserts will be cinnamon ice cream with raspberries and horseradish cream, apricot clafoutis with tonka bean ice cream and a chocolate preparation. I hope it will be quiet. I am absolutely knackered after taking over this place.