Outcrop, the restaurant, bar and arts space at 180 The Strand, is teaming up with UK arts collective Marshmallow Laser Feast to celebrate the UK’s ancient trees this September. Inspired by Marshmallow Laser Feast’s huge video installation ‘Sanctuary of the Unseen Forest’, currently in situ at Outcrop, the Lost Giants series will feature three dinners cooked by guest chefs with menus that take inspo from an ancient British tree, alongside guest speakers, like George Lamb of Wildfarmed, who’ll discuss the relationship between food and ecology and the regeneration of the UK’s ecosystems.
AngloThai’s John Chantarasak (currently in residence at Outcrop) will be teaming up with Brad Carter (of Carters of Moseley) on 10th September for a menu inspired by the Ankerwycke Yew in Berkshire, with ingredients sourced from Berkshire estate Oakley Court. On 11th September, Chantelle Nicholson will be cooking a menu that pays homage to The Great Yew of Kingley Vale in Sussex, with produce foraged and sourced from the county. Skye Gyngell will be finishing off the series on 17th September, taking inspiration from Escley Oak in Hertfordshire, which is located next to Fern Verrow, the farm that Skye uses for produce for her restaurant Spring.
Tickets for the series will be £85, including the dinner and the talk, with a first batch going on sale on 25th August and a second on 1st September.
Sun 10th – Sun 17th September 2023
1 Surrey St, London, WC2R 2ND
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