British Cheese Week 1st-7th June

British cheeses from Neal's Yard Dairy

It’s British Cheese Week from Monday 1st to Sunday 7th June and throughout the week we’ll be expanding our cheese offering to include a wider-than-usual selection from across the British isles.

Specially selected for us by Neal’s Yard Dairy, London’s leading cheese experts based just minutes away from us in Bermondsey, the cheeses will be served from an elegant traditional trolley, also British-made, by Thompson & Waterman. They will be offered alongside biscuits made for us by Borough Market-based bakery Bread Ahead and home-made chutney.
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Anthony Garlando takes over Instagram!

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Here at aqua shard we’re great fans of interactive photo-sharing app Instagram, and love seeing the many great images that guests post of their visits as well as sharing our own. So we were very excited when prestigious food magazine FOUR invited our executive chef Anthony Garlando to take over their Instagram feed for 24 hours on Wednesday 18th February to give a behind-the-scenes look into a day in the life of aqua shard.
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Exploring ‘London’s larder’, Borough Market

Ever since we opened, the quality of the produce Anthony Garlando and his team use to create our contemporary British cuisine has been of paramount importance. No ingredient will go into one of Anthony’s dishes unless it meets his stringent expectations and he takes great pride in sourcing as much as possible himself from hand-picked suppliers.
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