Apart of course from breakfast at aqua shard, there can be few nicer ways to start a bright Spring morning than celebrating the first birthday of GoodPeople Connect, a wonderful organisation helping unemployed Southwark residents into work. We are proud to have worked with GoodPeople Connect since the very beginning, two months before we opened, and to have recruited many of our team through them.
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Everyone at aqua shard was delighted when our executive chef Anthony Garlando was invited to give a live demonstration at Grand Designs Live. This very popular annual home lifestyle and design exhibition took place from 3-11 May at London’s ExCel, and Anthony was given two slots on the busy final Saturday!
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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show has been a highlight of the London ‘season’ for over a century, and to celebrate its arrival this year we’ve devised a very special menu with a floral theme.
Available at dinner from Monday 19th May until Friday 23rd May inclusive at £45 for three courses, the aqua shard Chelsea Flower Show menu sees Anthony Garlando’s signature contemporary British cuisine enhanced by the use of edible flowers, wild herbs and foraged shoots.
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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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Spring is the season of new beginnings, when flowers bloom after Winter, colour returns to the land and rising temperatures (albeit, this being Britain, not by much!) turn our thoughts to lighter foods after a diet of warming Winter dishes. At aqua shard we are celebrating the start of Spring with all-new starters for the a la carte menu, available now.
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With Easter just around the corner, our general manager John, along with his opposite number Desiree from our sister restaurants at aqua london, turned Easter Bunny to spread some cheer to some of our most regular bookers.
Whether or not you believe that St George really slew a dragon with his lance, or think it’s odd that a (probably) Greek soldier in the Roman army is somehow patron saint of England, we’ll still be marking the Feast of St George with a very special menu that flies the flag for England’s finest produce.
When contemporary-culture video magazine Crane TV asked our executive chef Anthony Garlando if he’d like to take part in a new series called ‘Chef’s Tables’, he leapt at the chance to take time out from the heat and frenetic pace of the kitchen to share stories from his career.
Crane TV’s team came to aqua shard and grilled Anthony about how he became a chef, lessons learned along the way, his influences and mentors, and, for this first episode of what’s to be a weekly series, mistakes made in his early years as a chef.
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Today is St Patrick’s Day, also known as Lá Fhéile Pádraig or the Feast Of St Patrick, so what better way to celebrate than with a fine Irish feast? March 17th is widely accepted as being the date on which Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died in 461, and has been celebrated in Ireland and around the world ever since. Falling during Lent, fasting requirements are lifted for the day, hence its association with being a day for big parties and indulgence!
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Tuesday 4th March was, of course, Pancake Day, and we were very excited when local theatre company London Bubble announced that they were organising a charity pancake race!
We didn’t need much persuading to put a team together to have fun while fundraising for LB+, London Bubble’s training programme offering life opportunities to unemployed young people who are also neither in education or training (NEET).
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