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Spinning the (small) plates
Small plates allow chefs to showcase their food in a more informal way and gives diners increased choice and flexibility, but how long will this dining trend continue?
Small plates allow chefs to showcase their food in a more informal way and gives diners increased choice and flexibility, but how long will this dining trend continue?
‘Small farms, big flavours, brave stories’ goes the blurb. And really that’s all you need to know about Kynd (pronounced ‘kind’), the latest addition to the Hampton Manor estate near Solihull.
There’s a reason the landscape artist John Constable hung out in the Dedham Vale: this Suffolk-Essex borderland, just north of Colchester and inland from Manningtree, could not be more painterly if it tried. It’s got it all, as spring slips into summer: the gentle weave of the river Stour, meadow-grazing cattle, distant clusters of houses and handsome churches, lanes frothing with cow parsley. AONB? Obvs.
Ben Crittenden says he never thought a neighbourhood restaurant as small as his could gain so much national attention.
The accomplished team from Perilla deliver their Mediterranean small plates to a new neighbourhood.