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Aperitif

Four futures amuse bouche

  • beer/whiskey aperitif
  • deep-fried mussel & chip
  • local pickle
  • seasonal vegetable skewer (with intensely flavoured green sauce/dipping oil)
  • pill-shaped potato & leak sorbet

fresh apple juice and shizo martini

Cold & playful

Continuation of(fried) sushi with Scottish ingredients (substitute rice with barley, fish with haggis, seaweed with red cabbage…)

  • dominant tastes: sweet and salty; bite-sized 2-3 pieces, brightly coloured, delicate presentation;

Edible sphere of water

Warming & liquid

Disciplined nettle soup (or other seasonal wild leafy greens) with sour cream, sprinkled with basil or parsley (essential) oil, served with raw linseed/hemp/mixed seed cracker (roughly broken into uneven chunks)

  • well balanced full taste with pungent flavour accents; small soup bowls served individually, crackers shared from the centre of the table;

Familiar & nourishing

Disciplined vegetarian shepherd's pie (substitute meat with mushrooms, smoked seitan, nuts, wild asparagus…), with local beer reduction

  • predominance of umami taste, juicy; served in a small portion, 'relaxed' or rustic presentation;

local beer brewed using variant on traditional recipes (perhaps something from BrewDog such as Libertine Black Ale, Cocoa Psycho or Tokyo?)

Intense & strange

Collapse dish served in sequence: to begin with only one small deep-fried potato skin (sprinkled with truffle/mushroom oil) on a big plate.; followed by (if available) a deep fried insect; followed by a pickled shellfish/sea urchin/fish/vegetable with seaweed; followed by a bite-sized mock-meat or tofu and mushroom stew (pink or blue oyster mushroom, or other strangely shaped/coloured fungus, such as the monkey head mushroom, Hericium erinaceus]], prepared to look like organ meat.

  • dominant tastes: sour, salty, umami, pungent

Smokey whiskey cocktail (or 'wee dram')

Light & ephemeral

A few small bite-sized portions of desserts such as:

  • spring flowers edible perfume
  • liquid fudge
  • sniffable raw cacao & maca powder
  • (goat) cheese crisps with popping sugar
  • light sponge with the appearance of a moon-rock
  • tastes: surprising, following flavour pairing principles; dishes served in laboratory glass

Fresh fruit or vegetable cocktails, such as beetroot cocktail, or …

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