Summer @ The Secret Garden
About Summer @ The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden' at 'the room' by the river' is a professionally designed and landscaped garden hideaway, surrounded with elegance and glamour. This unique space is created for a limitedperiod only during summer 2008. Located on the vibrant south Bank this easily accessible location will once again be one of London's most desirable conference and party event venues - and of course totally exclusive.
Where else in London can you enjoy the perfect cocktail with all that 'the room' by the river' offers?
Sample seated dinner menu
Starter
- Gazpacho jelly, curried courgette, caviar, cucumber crunch- Grilled vine tomato, mozzarella, baby gem & balsamic caramel dressing
- Glazed goats cheese & beetroot with herb salad and beetroot dressing
- Trio of: griddled roasted butternut squash; sweet potato soup; ricotta dumplings
- Asparagus, shitake mushroom terrine, rocket salad with red pepper jus
- Chinese bowl of coriander & ginger-scented thread noodle salad with either (chicken, salmon or vegetarian crispy green vegetables)
- Thai noodle salad with spiced shrimps, white radish & rocket
Main Course
- Oven baked salmon on roasted vegetables topped with basil salsa- Olive crusted cod with wild mushroom & marsala sauce on bed of sweet Savoy cabbage with roasted skewered potatoes
- Roast fillet of sea bass ginger & saffron scented sauce over crushed new potatoes - bowl of broad
Beans, peas and courgette
- Paillard of chicken breast with preserved lemon couscous & pistachio butter
- Traditional bangers galore, mashed & sweet potato with red onion marmalade sauce
- Corn-fed chicken with potato coriander & lemon grass dauphinoise with artichoke & sun blushed dressing
- Classic tarragon corn-fed chicken with spiced sauté potatoes
- Breast of guinea fowl with sun-dried tomato, paprika cream sauce served on bed of leek & thyme mashed potato
- Slow roasted duck on oriental greens with sloe gin & berry sauce
Gorgonzola & apple strudel with caramelized red onion compote
- Courgette & potato rosti stack filled with wild mushrooms & garden spinach
- Lentil aubergine & goats cheese Charlotte with spiced oven-roasted tomato salsa
- Roasted Mediterranean vegetable filo parcel with a piquant red pepper
Dessert
- Trio of berries: blueberry & cassis jelly; strawberry pavlova; framboise panna cotta- Apricot frangipane tart with mango & passion fruit coulis
- Summer pudding, berry compote & clotted cream
- Espresso crème brûlée
- Luscious lemon & blueberry tiramisu
- Mini chocolate bombes with fresh berries & cream
- Chocolate filled meringue roulade with espresso kahlua cream
- Apple & lemon grass tart with calvados cream