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.
Come and join us at the newly refurbed Duende in Wiveliscombe, for a special Exmoor Food Fest menu, Friday and Saturday nights throughout February. The tasting menu is £55 per head, 6 courses, optional wine flight £40.
6 course tasting menu
Amuse Bouche
Roasted chicken dashi, cured egg yolk, sprouting lentils
Pan roasted minus 8 glazed mackerel, sourdough and almond crumbs
Guinea fowl, salted caramel sweet potato, braised spinach, puffed rice, Jerez sauce
Creedy Carver duck breast, rye pancake, forest fruit & barley
Pot au creme, maple syrup, lava salt
Dates:
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 February
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 February
Friday 23 & Saturday 24 February
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For this year’s Exmoor Food Fest Tim has gathered together some of Exmoor and Somerset’s most talented and passionate chefs, for a launch event over two evenings at Wiveliscombe’s hidden gem, Duende restaurant.
The menu, secret until the night as is usual for Duende, is 6 courses of locally sourced produce, with an optional wine flight put together by Tim’s wine expert Clare of Christopher Piper wines.
The evening is £75 per person, the optional wine flight is £35.
The chefs joining Tim over the two evenings are chefs Joe Roach and Sophie Rogers from The Farmers Arms at Combe Florey, Olivier Certain from The Bittescombe Inn, Martin Bayliss from New Coast Kitchen in Croyde and Miguel Tenreiro from Porlock Weir Hotel as well as Shaun Vant from The Martlet Inn.
Dates: Monday 29 & Tuesday 30 January 2024
7 for 7.30pm
Welcome Drinks
6 course tasting menu
To book your table for this special event email bookings@duenderestaurant.co.uk
Duende Restaurant
4 High Street
Wiveliscombe
Taunton
Somerset
TA4 2JX
Telephone: 01984 624650
Email: bookings@duenderestaurant.co.uk
Exmoor Food Fest 