Week beginning August 17th - Blackberries and Rowanberries

Whilst I write this blog the rain in pouring and there is even threat of thunder and lighting on the horizon. This weather reminds me that there isn't much time left until the end of summer 2015. Over the next few weeks there is a scraping of music festivals, couple more raves in Ibiza, a street party in Notting Hill and a patriotic night of Proms at the Royal Albert, events to prolong the inevitable. Next weeks forecast looks slightly more promising of an Indian summer and fingers crossed it'll be nothing like my current view. 

This week in Eastcastle street we will be utilising some of the best produce August has growing in its outdoor pantry, especially blackberries. If you've been wondering through London along train tracks, heaths, marshes or parks you would have most likely seen some sturdy growths of prickly vines with very large and ripe blackberries hanging from its tips. There are so many blackberries out at the moment not even the birds can diminish the ever growing crops. So this week we have used blackberries in 2 of Kaffeine's menu items, first is our classic blackberry and apple muffins. Secondly a salad of crispy pancetta, fresh off the plane burratina from Italy, salsa verde, toasted hazel nuts, watercress and fruit of the month blackberries.  This is a balance of favours from salty, sweet, bitter and sour making it the perfect meal. 

There are a couple of foraged fruits that will also be flirting with other dishes one being a rose-hip chilli sauce that'll be served with Italian ham hash cakes topped with orange mayonnaise. The other is rowan berries, these fluorescent orange berries appear throughout the U.K. Many boroughs choose to plant these trees because they are low maintenance and pleasant to look at. The berries have a distinct ashy and bitterness; when cooked they remind me of marmalade. This week we've made a dressing from rowan berries and will be adding it to a salad of chicory, gorgonzola, brazil nuts and coriander; another example of salty, sweet, bitter and sour.

Come to Kaffeine this week where we are keeping the summer alive for just a little bit longer. 

Jared Bryant

Lead Chef

@redjarcooking 

Eastcastle Street

Khan Kein

Lead Chef

Great Titchfield Street

Great Titchfield Street Menu

Breakfast

Traditional bircher muesli with Greek yoghurt and rhubarb and raspberry compote (v, nuts, milk) 4.00

Granola muesli with pomegranate molasses, Greek yoghurt and rhubarb and raspberry compote (v, nuts) 4.00

Fruit salad with pineapple, mango, strawberries, grapes, passion fruit (v, gf) 3.90

Ciabatta roll with omelette, pancetta, rocket and tomato salsa 5.00

Ciabatta roll with avocado, omelette, rocket and tomato salsa 5.00

Croissant with Italian roast ham, talleggio cheese, spinach & plum tomatoes 4.90

Cinnamon and Raisin Toast 2.50

Pastries by Seven Seed bakery

French butter croissant 2.00

Pain au chocolat 2.50

Almond croissant 2.80

Baked Treats

Sweet muffin: Mango and coconut (v, cereals, milk) 2.50

Savoury Scones: Spinach, feta, tomato   (v, cereals, milk) 2.50

Friand: Raspberry and dark chocolate (v, gf, milk, nut)  2.50

Super moist chocolate brownies (gf) 2.70

White chocolate blondies 2.50

Portuguese tarts 2.00

ANZAC cookies 2.00

Almond and custard slice 2.80

Banana bread 2.50
Raspberry and coconut slice 2.50 (v, gf)

Lunch

French retro baguettes 5.30

Ham, plum chutney, buffalo mozzarella, plum tomato, rocket  (cereals, milk)

Crumbed butternut pumpkin, peri peri sauce, feta cheese, spinach (cereals, milk)

Foccacias 5.50

Tuna , cucumber, fried onion, egg mayonnaise, great cheddar, rocket (cereals, fish, egg, mustard)

Pancetta, goat curd, avocado, fried egg, spinach (cereals, milk)

Salads: 5.50/6.90

Salmon fillets with black rice, mango, cucumber, red onion, mint, sesame seeds and sweet soy dressing (gf, soy, seeds)

Tofu salad with red pepper, carrot, bean sprout, avocado, spicy satay sauce and roasted peanut (gf, v, nut)

Blanched broccoli with oyster dressing and coriander (gf, oyster, sesame oil)

Tart: 4.40 or 8.00 with salads
Slow roasted tomato, red pepper, red onion, buffalo mozzarella and green pesto (cereals, milk, nut)

Eastcastle Street Menu

Breakfast

Traditional bircher muesli with Greek yoghurt and rhubarb and raspberry compote (v, nuts, milk) 4.00

Paleo granola with with Greek yoghurt and rhubarb and raspberry compote (gf, ve, nuts) 4.00

Fruit salad with pineapple, mango, strawberries, grapes and passion fruit (gf, v) 3.90

Smoked paprika brioche, calvados potato mash, medium baked egg, grilled courgette and onions with crème fraiche and chives (cereal, milk, egg) 5.00

Maple cured bacon in a sourdough wrap with own made smoked ketchup, mont d'or cheese and rocket (milk, egg) 4.90

Croissant with Italian roast ham, talleggio cheese, spinach and plum tomatoes 4.90

Croissant with smoked salmon, chopped egg, tomato and sprouts (cereal, milk, egg, mustard) 5.00

Pastries by Seven Seed bakery

French butter croissant (milk) 2.00

Pain au chocolat (milk) 2.50

Almond croissant (milk, almonds) 2.80

Baked Treats

Muffins - Blackberry and apple (v, cereal, milk, egg) 2.50

Savoury – Sweet corn and spirulina  (v, cereal, milk) 2.50

Chocolate brownies (gf, milk) 2.70

ANZAC cookies (nuts) 2.00
Ladybird tarts (v, milk, eggs) 2.90

Banana bread (milk) 2.50
Matcha Powder Power Tart 2.90
Portuguese Tarts 2.00
Raspberry and coconut slice 2.50 (v, gf)

Lunch
Flat Bread Wraps 5.00
Kaffeine Sourdough flat-bread with ginger tofu, avocado, mustard sprouts, cucumber, red onion and spinach (ve, cereal)

Baguettes 5.30

Sourdough baguette with ham, balsamic grilled apricots, camembert, basil and rocket (cereal, milk) 

Sourdough baguette with smoked salmon, buckthorn hollandaise, cucumber, alfalfa sprouts and watercress (cereal, egg, fish, mustard)

Salads 5.50/7.00

Crispy pancetta, burratina, blackberry, salsa verde, toasted hazel nuts and watercress (gf, milk, mustard, fish, nuts)

Chicory, gorgonzola, brazil nuts, coriander and rowan berry dressing (v, gf, milk, nut)

Shaved fennel with parmesan, capers and basil (v, gf, milk)

Savoury Tart 4.40 or 8.00 with salads

Italian ham hash cakes with orange mayonnaise and rose-hip chilli sauce (gf, egg, milk, mustard, celery)

Weekend Menu - Eastcastle Street Only

Our second Chef Flavio brings his own style and flavours to the kitchen on the weekends at Eastcastle. He will run the menus for two weekends in a row so that we can enjoy it all the more.

Please check back for this weeks menu, to be uploaded before the weekend.