Chives wandering willows12/28/2023 The table setting was delightful with logs, toadstools, wild flowers, red and white checkered napkins, and just the thing that Rat & Mole would have had for their river bank picnics. You need to roll with it and get into the spirit of the production. But this is what immersive dining is about. This fun, puzzling, circular conversation with me & my guest Rosana McPhee, went on for a bit. He was shortly joined by Rat who also didn’t have a TV but had cassettes and wondered if you could listen to MasterChef on them. There was no poncing around calling it zhoug or chermoula or pesto it was green sauce.īadger (already in character) served us the golden pasties and said he was very excited that someone from MasterChef was cooking tonight, but since he didn’t have a TV he didn’t actually know what MasterChef was. On arrival, before we were seated, we were treated to Ratty’s Lemonade cocktail (gin and lemonade) and Juanita’s Bubble & Squeak pasties with a vibrant herby “green sauce”. With sheep, goats and a black farmyard cat wandering around looking for scraps from dinners, it was the perfect setting for a production like The Wind in The Willows. Stepney City Farm is a lovely ramshackle place. It is, but you are under a shelter as even though it’s mid May, the weather seems to have forgotten that it’s mid May. Onto the review, we were told to wrap up warm as the performance would be outdoors. However, I’m a sucker for City Farms, have a particular fondness for The Wind in The Willows, and having only met Juanita Hennessey once before (at MasterChef winner Jane Devonshire‘s book launch) immediately felt that she was a fun character and would produce an interesting menu for the night (Incidentally, I’ve met quite a few contestants from MasterChef 2016 who are all great story tellers – if you ever get the chance to eat any of their food, grab it). It takes a lot to get me to East London, I live west of West London, so something has to be pretty intriguing to get me to Stepney. Our co-founder, Mecca Ibrahim, went along to a preview at Stepney City Farm to experience the second night. Fellow MasterChef finalist Juanita Hennessey is now Head Chef and designed a seasonal menu to match the much loved The Wind in The Willows. It’s an immersive dining experience, adapting classic stories, served with a menu inspired by the story. Scripts for Supper is the brain-child of former MasterChef semi-finalist Annie McKenzie.
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