Friday and Saturday nights throughout February £60 per head, optional wine flight £40.
Award winning Chef Tim Zekki believes great food begins with great ingredients; he seeks out the finest local suppliers, for the highest quality produce. He brings creativity and skills honed over 30 years as a chef, and a healthy obsession with food, including foraging, hi-tech techniques and fine ingredients.
Tim Zekki is chef patron of Duende restaurant in Wiveliscombe, Somerset. Tim first started to cook at his father’s restaurant in Cyprus, where he inherited a love of foraging, pickling and preserving from his grandmother.
He developed his skills in restaurants in London, and his love of fine ingredients led him to open and run two delis, in Isleworth and Twickenham, appearing on Gary Rhode’s Local Food Hero on UKTV. After a move to the Chilterns he ran pop up restaurants under the name Duende.
Moving to Somerset meant a chance to settle into a permanent place, where Duende was recognised by Taste of The West, and won Somerset Life’s Best Restaurant in its first year.
Tim sources local, sustainable produce, and often includes wild ingredient in his tasting menus. He enjoys pushing the boundaries of food, such as the challenge of inventing a beef-based dessert course for Exmoor Food Fest’s celebration of beef. He’s been a semi-finalist in the Craft Guild of Chef’s National Chef of the Year in 2020, ‘21 and ‘22.
Tim cooks tasting menus in people’s homes for private events and is currently a regular chef for events at William Sitwell’s Supper Clubs.
Exmoor Food Fest offer:
Friday and Saturday nights throughout February £60 per head, optional wine flight £40.
Dates:
Friday 2 & Saturday 3 February
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 February
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 February
Friday 23 & Saturday 24 February
To book your table email bookings@duenderestaurant.co.uk
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