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Window showing off
hung game and replicas at The Jugged Hare
A daily-changing specials board often
featuring less common species such black grouse, moorhen (hopefully not from the Barbican Lake), golden plover, even squirrel, as well as wild boar and deer brought back from an annual hunting trip in Europe - all ensuring that diners will be able to taste the very best of the 2013 shooting season. The Jugged Hare will also be offering
Game and Bordeaux Tasting Dinners. Five courses, designed to give you a tasting of game, each matched with a specially selected Bordeaux wine. There will also be game masterclasses
where you can learn to pluck, truss, butcher and dress various game birds. Available on request from October to February, classes are of 8-16 people and will cost £150 for a three-hour class with a three-course game feast, matching wines and a sloe gin cocktail on arrival.
As the restaurant’s name would
suggest it should, jugged hare as a dish returned to the menu on August 1st following the six-month ban on hunting which allows the animals to breed. Cooked in a traditional tall jug, the slow- braised hare meat is finished off with a sauce of its own blood and The Jugged Hare is probably one of the few places in London where this under-used meat is thus prepared. From the Glorious 12th the restaurant
reckons to get creative with its game, sourced from Ben Weatherall of Yorkshire Game Company as well as
many other small, select gamekeepers and providers up and down the country. Dishes that will be available on the menu from time to time will include salt- baked grey-legged partridge with skirlie and juniper jus; snipe kiev with pickled cabbage; devilled game giblets on toast and the ‘dive bomb’, a tufted duck pastry bomb delivered foaming to your table, clay pigeon stew served in specially made clay pigeons with a sloe gin shot served in an oversized shotgun cartridge. More traditional game fare will also be available in the pub’s grouse feasts for parties of six.
Call 020 7614 0134 for further details and bookings.
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Morgan M’s 10th Anniversary tasting menu
n September this year, Morgan Meunier, one of London’s leading French chefs, has been celebrating 10
years of Morgan M, at the restaurant on Long Lane opposite the eastern end of Smithfield market, with a specially created six-course tasting menu made up of highlights from the past decade. In keeping with Morgan’s ethos of ‘affordable haute cuisine’, this will be available for £48, for five weeks from 12th September. Morgan M originally opened in
Islington and was critically acclaimed in 2003, winning a number of awards and accolades since for its inventive French cuisine. Morgan Meunier moved his restaurant to its current location at 50 Long Lane, in late 2011. Dishes on the tasting menu includes Morgan M’s signature seared fillet “Lieu Jaune” with crayfish tarragon ravioli, celeriac vanilla cream and lobster froth; Pot-roasted fillet of venison from Iken Valley, farci of hare with chestnut puree and braised cabbage; and 2005’s ‘UK’s Best Chocolate Dessert’ winner, the chocolate moelleux, served with milk sorbet and Armagnac drink.
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