Answers to what most tables want to know before booking — seasonal menu swaps, allergens, the wine list, and how we handle walk-ins on weekends. If your question isn't here, the phone is still the best way; the host stand picks up from 4pm.
The tasting menu refreshes with the season — four cycles a year anchored on what's growing within 60 km of the kitchen. Between cycles, two or three courses will rotate whenever a grower calls to say a crop is peaking. The à la carte side rotates more slowly; the bread, butter and stocks never leave.
Yes, with notice. Plant-based, gluten-free and allergen-specific menus are written course-by-course by the chef; we just ask for 48 hours so stocks and sauces can be split. Same-day requests we accommodate where we can, but the tasting menu may reduce to 5 courses instead of 7.
We welcome wines that aren't on our list for €35 per bottle, waived on bottles that were bottled before 1998 or carry a personal significance (anniversary years, births). Please let us know at booking so we can have the right stemware ready — and bring a second bottle if the first is a magnum, for balance with the room.
On weeknights, yes — the four counter seats facing the pass are kept for walk-ins and solo diners. On Fridays and Saturdays the room is usually booked three to five weeks out; the counter may still have room before 7pm or after 9:30pm if you're willing to take your chances.
Three farms and one cooperative within an hour of the kitchen — named on the back of every menu. Fish lands at Peniche on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings; the chef picks it in person and it's on the pass by 6pm the same day. Olive oil, honey and the vinegar we cook with are all single-origin and change producer roughly every two years as they rotate.
Absolutely — the kitchen will happily plate a shorter version of the tasting menu for children ten and under (no charge for under-fives sharing with a parent). High chairs and quiet crayons are at the host stand; the counter seats work surprisingly well for curious older kids who like to watch the line move.