DRAFT for the LateLab Open Sauces menu. The dishes and the flow are still very much a work in progress.

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

Continuation of (deep 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 (??)

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;

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')

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?)

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

• Transformed tipsy laird meets smoked garlic tiramisu
• 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, variation on tea and coffee, or …