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We’ve really been enjoying the opening reception evenings of our art exhibitions every first Thursday of each month. At Formans Restaurant we serve a special brasserie menu of some of our most popular dishes at really reasonable prices. It’s a great chance to come along and try the restaurant as well as taking in some brilliant local art.

To book a table give us a call on 0208 5252 365

FORMANS RESTAURANT FIRST THURSDAYS MENU

Forman’s Famous London Cure Smoked Salmon
Gourmet Salmon & Lobster Fishcake – Rocket Salad
Chicken, Air Dried Ham & Sage Ballotine - Buttered Spinach
Spinach & Goat’s Cheese Quiche - Tomato Salad (v)
Pot-roasted Scottish Daube of Beef – Horseradish Mash
Mushroom & Butternut Squash Risotto (v)
Any Dish -    £9.50

Paddy & Scott’s Coffee & Cake Selection for 2    £9.50
(Cappuccino, Espresso, Latte or Americano with Chocolate brownies, Lemon & Pistachio Cake & Banana Bread)

Award Winning English Wines – By the Glass
Chapel Down Brut Reserve    £6.50
Biddenden Ortega 2007        £4.75
Chapel Down English Rose 2008    £4.50
Oxford Regatta 2006        £4.75

English Beer
Chapel Down Admiral Porter 5% 330ml £3.50
Chapel Down Curious Brew Brut 5% 330ml    £3.50
Chapel Down Indian Pale Ale 5% 330ml         £3.50

H2ousewater
Still or Sparkling     £1.00

We’re delighted to be sponsoring the Hackney Wicked Art Festival 2010.

Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery is the largest in the area and will be showing ‘I see myself there, where I am not’, click here for more details. As well as enjoying and, if you’re inclined, buying the art on show it’s also a great chance to come and see the smokery, stock up on our smoked salmon and take in our fabulous view of the 2012 Olympic stadium if you haven’t yet had the chance.
 
Formans Restaurant will be open throughout the festival serving a special brasserie menu and with live music performances each day. We’ll also be running a Cocktail Canape Bar to give you a taste of Formans Restaurant out amongst the Corner Carnival art and craft stalls on Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 6pm.
 
By no means least from 12 midday to 3.30 pm on Sunday we’ll be holding The Drawing Olympics, a free art workshop for families and children to create their own pictures of the Olympic stadium with the works being judged by a local artist and prizes for the best!

Look out for our ‘August Specials’ which we will be previewing online in a week or two. We’re particularly excited about the honey we’ve sourced from a beekeeper in Regent’s Park. Bees in London parks pollinate a wide variety of flowers and strange as it may seem you really can taste all those different aromas in the honey.

Watch this video of Toby the apiarist at work, his is a brilliant story of someone finding fulfillment in producing wholesome, natural food.

“Treat yourself to a decadent picnic with the Trealy Farm charcuterie platter (£16.95) formanandfield.com, 0208 5252 352. It includes Monmouthshire ham, bresaola, lomo and the Beechwood smoked ham”

Cook’s Notes - August 2010

If you’re planning a wedding this summer - and don’t they seem to have a habit of finding a way into every summer no matter whether you thought you were planning one or not - you’re going to need some help. The fabulous website Hot Brands Cool Places have put together a glossy guide to some seriously high quality wedding suppliers picked from their carefully researched little black book. It’s essential reading and we were delighted to be included.

Click on the image to view the guide in handy online magazine format!

If you’d like to see some suggestions of our foods that we think would work particularly well for your wedding, you might like to have a browse of our wedding food section here - WEDDING FOOD . If you have any special requests please don’t hesitate to call and we will be delighted to discuss the big day with you!

Come back for seconds of Nyetimber’s fantastic wines and our Formans Restaurant Taste of London menu by ordering online them for delivery to your door: CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

It was great to see so many of our regular customers at the Taste of London food festival last weekend. Forman’s Restaurant supplied the salmon to match Nyetimber’s superlative sparkling wines in their pavilion. We served our fish tartare ’shots’ - canapés of citrus cured salmon, beetroot gravadlax and thai crab - alongside their Classic Cuveé 2005 and smoked fish platters of Genuine Wild and London Cure smoked, beetroot cured and maple glazed Scottish salmon with their Blanc de Blancs 2001.

We have some fabulous free delivery deals on Nyetimber wines and our food menu from the show that will be available for the next few weeks, have a look at the following page on our site for details: www.formanandfield.com/nyetimber

Here’s what the food press thought of the Pavilion this year

From Hot Dinners:

The most beautiful looking stand at Taste this year, try a glass of chilled Nyetimber with a platter of Forman and Fields’s smoked salmon. Take note of the lovely flower arrangements – the herbs in each display reflect the notes present in the wines.

From Eat Like a Girl:

With possibly the prettiest stand, and some great English sparkling wine to boot, save some of your crowns for a glass of award winning Nyetimber. A little more expensive, but worth every penny. Try the Forman’s London Cure Salmon with it, a light smoked salmon, which almost has a sashimi like quality to it. Very good indeed.

From The Real Flower Girl:

Days of Wine and Roses with Real Flowers and Nyetimber at the Taste Festival
“Our flowers were on show on the Nyetimber Pavilion at the Taste of London Festival in London’s Regents Park, this week. We were invited to work with Nyetimber’s winemaker, Cherie Spriggs, to put together 32 arrangements using our English grown garden roses and herbs which complimented the award winning English sparkling wines that she has produced. The stand look wonderful and was a little piece of Sussex in the centre of Regents Park!”

From Sabrina’s Passions:

TASTE OF LONDON 2010
“We took shelter in the lovely stand belonging to “Nyetimber” who are a British winery in Sussex that make absolutely splendid fizz, whose Nyetimber’s Classic Cuvée 2003 beat French Champagne to receive the title of “Champion of …”

From 1 Wine:

Tips for Taste of London
“With possibly the most beautiful state, and some great English sparkling wine to start, save some of your dollars for a glass of award winning Nyetimber. A bit expensive but worth every penny. Try Forman’s London Cure Salmon with what a light smoked salmon, which almost has a sashimi-like quality to it. Very good.”

Thanks to all at Nyetimber for inviting us to join them, we hope you all enjoyed the festival as much as we did.

Did you catch the Times last week? They sent a reporter to our Fish Island HQ to come and talk to Lance about our history and his hopes for making heritage smoked salmon a part of the legacy of the 2012 Olympics. Click on the image to read the article in full.

There was a super piece in the Evening Standard yesterday, in which their reporter takes stock of the Olympic development so far. He came to visit us at our smokery as well as touring the stadia and quizzing local residents.

Have a read of the article here: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23841954-would-you-adam-and-eve-it-welcome-to-the-new-east-end.do

We thought you might like to see these pictures of how the 2012 Stadium’s coming along. We’ve marked Forman’s Fish Island with a red arrow in case you should lose us next to our new neighbour.

The spirit of construction seems to be catching. We can’t announce exactly what we’re up to just yet but we’ve just started work on a very exciting new project on the plot of land next to our smokery… keep an eye on the blog for more news soon!

Remember you can always check the progress of the stadium through our Fish Eye View webcam - Click here for live video