The Food.

Taking into consideration the Channel 4 programme ‘Heston’s Feasts’ I feel that I can maintain the idea of an entertainment space in a restaurant by creating a sense of a ‘performance’ through the way the food is cooked and presented.

The first episode of the programme focused on the Victorian period, a decadent era fuelled by absinthe, opium, and prostitution, or as Blumenthal calls it, an era "filled to the brim with invention, madness, and above all, imagination…” and he takes his inspiration from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party from Alice in Wonderland.

He uses the basis of this story to stage the Mad Hatter's Tea Party from Alice in Wonderland, creating dishes such as ‘Mock-Turtle Soup’ and ‘Mad Hatter Tea’. This began as the rabbit’s gold watch, over which was poured boiling water that dissolved into a broth and was consequently poured over the ox tongue and a turnip and swede puree.

The Rabbit's Gold Watch

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