If you’ve never been to
@furnarestaurant before then prepare to be amazed as the food is out of this world. We visited to try their new Spring tasting menu with plenty of fresh local ingredients.
They’re also pretty damn good at cocktails, my favourite being the rhubarb royale, with black pepper gin. Plus the alpine velvet was so good.
They started us off with three gorgeous dishes, while the slow cooked octopus tasted so nice with the crispy wild rice on top.
There was also a little croustade filled with Sussex mackerel, blood orange and some trout roe, which was sublime.
Then we had the English grains dish, using spelt which is toasted and cooked in a really rich mushroom dashi, some maitake mushrooms in there which were barbecued for a smoky flavour and brushed with a reduction of seaweed and apple, a confit egg yolk, preserved wild garlic capers, with a sauce infused with lemon, thyme and kombu seaweed
For the fish course they served a lovely piece of South Coast brill which has been dry aged, above a ragu of razor clams, a little bit of apple as well that brings a nice bit of acidity, finished with a langoustine bouillabaisse.
For the bread course, they have the parker house roll, a cross between a Japanese milkbread and traditional French brioche, glazed with a local honey and a bit of brown butter, with a touch of smoked sea salt, alongside a house cultured butter which is made in-house and a smoked cod roe with watermelon radish.
Next up we have the duroc pork from an American breed of pig bred in the UK renowned for it’s great fat content and lovely marbling, roasted over the BBQ on the bone, with, with some new season morel mushrooms stuffed with a chicken truffle mousse, wild garlic, sprouting broccoli and a pork sauce as well.
We finished with a roasted Yorkshire rhubarb with a rice pudding parfait, finished with some rhubarb juice and Greek olive oil. Raquel actually stated this is the best dessert she has had all year, so that says something.