This was a spectacular event held on 4th July on a yacht in New York Harbour. It was a special birthday dinner attended by the top financial and political ‘movers and shakers’ of New York State taking advantage of America’s own birthday celebrations as a backdrop. Our client chose an atypical menu and design for the evening, opting for cool, summery and elegant.

Ibores, lomo and fig bruschetta
Chicken liver mousse sandwich with Sauternes gelée
Unagi, bacon and basil spring roll with sriracha mayonnaise
Sweet shrimp mousse with tarama cream in dill bread tartlets
Leek ice cream with truffle oil and morel dust
Apple, walnut and mushroom salad with mushroom vinaigrette

Chilled cucumber soup with lemon yoghurt sorbet

Tomato-ricotta trifle with corn, asparagus and melon salad

Sweet poached scallop and lobster with pea coulis and caviar
Montagny-Blagny Drouhin 2005

Honey, fennel, cinnamon roast chicken on noodle pancake with haricot verts
Barbera d’Alba Terre di Barolo 2006

Carrot, bean sprout, scallion and cilantro salad with chili-orange cellophane noodles

Brillat Savarin with watercress, fava and olive salad
Fourme d’Ambert with pear-ginger salad
Chabichou du Poitue with rosewater-walnut crèpes
Chateau de la Marechaud Lalande Pomerol 2005

Birthday cake
Bruléed cardamom oranges with orange blossom sorbet
Perrier Jouet Champagne

Tropical fruit salad with passion fruit sauce and cilantro sorbet
Butterscotch ‘double’ crème brulée
Red wine soup with berries and cinnamon yoghurt