Fancy bruised vegetables and fruit, fish heads and stale bread at £15 a dish?
Chef Dan Barber will open a popup restaurant converting food waste into sharing dishes and high tea, which will feature an a la carte menu for lunch and dinner
London — Gordon Ramsay, Tom Kerridge and Clare Smyth are among the Michelin-starred British chefs who will cook alongside their New York counterpart Dan Barber when he opens a popup restaurant converting food waste into £15 (about R247) sharing dishes and £32 (about R526) high tea. Barber is also recruiting other big names from the UK and Europe. There’s just one catch: diners won’t know in advance who is the guest chef on the day they book at the rooftop site at Selfridges department store in London. People wait months for a table at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, in upstate New York, US, where Barber serves a vegetable-led menu with ingredients from his farm. It was named best restaurant in America 2016. This will be his first venture in the UK. The popup, to be called Wasted London, runs from February 24 to April 2, serving menus designed to raise awareness of food waste. Expect quirky dishes with skin and bones and other ingredients you wouldn’t normally expect. The original Wasted w...
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