The Food & Drink Innovation Network

September 2nd, 2010

The Ambrette Restaurant, the Michelin-listing Indian fine dining establishment in Margate, is to serve an eighteen-course ‘Taste Sensation’ sampler menu every Sunday evening throughout September.

Costing £49.99 for each customer, the eighteen course meal is not a cheap evening out however, when broken down, each course only costs £2.77.

The evening hopes to provide visitors with a unique dining experience with complex and diverse flavours.

The Ambrette’s executive chef Dev Biswal said:

“Our reputation for a unique culinary style means that many of our customers travel considerable distances to taste our cooking – only 5 percent of the two and a half thousand customers on our database live in Thanet.

With this sampler menu offering much smaller portions of items, diners from further afield can try our full repertoire at a single sitting.”

Inspiration has been drawn from the concept of an Indian Thali. A thali is a selection of different dishes, usually served in small bowls on a round tray.

Ideas have also been borrowed from Ayurveda ( The ‘science of life’) a system of traditional medicine native to India.

Ayurveda follows a food classification system that categorized any food item as saatvic, raajsic or taamsic. Each was deemed to have a powerful effect on the body and the mind.

The eighteen course sampler has been carefully designed with fresh raajsic ingredients and spices – its fresh ingredients cooked with a variety of spices and strong flavorings.

The Taste Sensation menu will include popular gourmet items such as Indian Ocean tiger prawns with ginger and rosemary, Succulent Kent and hand crafted chocolate silk – a pure dark chocolate that contains a sedative which relaxes and stimulates the senses.

Below is a Sample Menu of the eighteen course meal:

1. Appetiser of the day
2. Dosa (crepe)
3. Char grilled brochettes of lamb
4. Crispy poori
5. Indian Ocean tiger prawns with ginger and rosemary
6. Kentish Pork ribs with fennel and sesame seeds
7. Hand crafted Chocolate samosa
8. Delicate breast of Godmersham wood pigeon
9. Soup of the day
10. Grenita of the day
11. Spice crusted Nile Perch
12. Gressingham duck with cinnamon
13. Delicate fillet of Claresse with onion seeds
14. Fruit of the day
15. Kedgeree of Sea Bream
16. Kashmiri style chop of Kentish lamb
17. Cinnamon poached pear
18. Hand crafted chocolate silk

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