A dining room for forty-six inside a restored 1889 glasshouse, cooking only what the walled garden around it gave us that morning.
Luncheon
Tue – Sun
Tea
Fri – Sun
Set menu
$68
Maren Holt and four gardeners grow for one kitchen.
Everything on your plate grew inside the walls you can see from your table. Maren walks the beds at seven, the kitchen writes the menu at nine, and whatever the frost took or the birds found first is simply not on it. Some days that is eleven dishes; some days, seven.
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Varieties in the beds
7:00
The morning walk
9:00
The menu is written
Three courses for $68, or order as you like. We write the menu each morning at nine, so tell us about allergies when you book.
I · To begin
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Garden peas, cured yolk
$22Pea shoots, mint, warm brown butter
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Heirloom tomatoes
$19Whey dressing, lovage, grilled bread
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Chilled beet soup
$18Smoked crème fraîche, dill flowers
II · Garden and coast
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Halibut, saffron broth
$46Fennel, mussels, braised leeks
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Saffron risotto
$34Roasted tomato, Meyer lemon, aged pecorino
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Spring lamb, sweetbread
$52Charred onion, salsa verde, new potatoes
III · To finish
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Strawberry panna cotta
$16Elderflower, black pepper shortbread
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Rhubarb, blood orange
$15Brown sugar meringue, cold cream
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Three cheeses
$21Honeycomb, walnut bread, quince
The Champagne trolley comes round from noon, by the glass from $28.
Set luncheon · three courses · $68
Photographed at the pass, a minute before each plate went out to the glasshouse.
On Sunday evenings the glasshouse closes to everyone but one party: a menu written with you, the garden lit by lanterns, and the room for as long as you like.
Luncheon is served in the glasshouse from noon. Tea is served on the lawn when the weather lets us.
Where
Wrenfield Walled Garden
2 Orchard Road
Wrenfield
When
- Luncheon, Tue – Sun
- 12:00 – 15:00
- Tea, Fri – Sun
- 15:30 – 17:30
- Monday
- Closed
Closed for the first two weeks of January.
Getting here
Fifty minutes by train from the city, then a ten-minute walk from Wrenfield station along the orchard path. Free parking at the garden gate, and a rack for bicycles.
Tables open sixty days ahead at nine in the morning. For more than six guests, or for the long table, write to us instead.
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