Peter Gordon and Paul a Young team up to create cacao menu for Chocolate Week

Wednesday 31st August

For Chocolate Week 2011 Peter Gordon, the godfather of fusion cuisine and Paul Young have collaborated to create a unique cacao dinner to be held at Gordon’s Marylebone restaurant, The Providores. Using chocolate from some of the world’s finest producers and pairing those with seasonal and unexpected ingredients the duo have created a 6 course menu with chocolate incorporated into each course.

The inventive pair have devised exciting methods of including chocolate such as smoking panizza over cacao nibs and creating a chocolate cocktail using Sipsmith gin. Dishes include ‘Master-stock roast duck, prune sauce, wild mushrooms, porcini powder and broad beans’ with Duffy Sheardowns award winning Honduras Indio Rojo and ‘Smoked eel, sautéed salsify, toasted sourdough crumbs and date chipotle chilli puree’ with Michel Cluizel 50% Mangaro chocolate.

The dinner will take place on Monday 10th October to launch chocolate week. Peter and Paul will host the evening, introducing the dishes and talking about the chocolate, flavour profiles and the matching of ingredients (£95 includes 6 courses, matching wines with each course, cocktail and service). It will also be held on Friday 14th October when chocolate makers Philipp Kauffman of Original Beans and Bertil Akesson of Akessons will also attend and say a few words about their chocolate and how it is made (£105 includes 6 courses, matching wines with each course, cocktail and service).

This promises to be one of the highlights of Chocolate Week, a daring and deliciously original meal created by two of the most inventive chefs in the UK today. To book please e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)