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Announcing a blooming marvellous special menu!

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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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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Spring forward for our new seasonal starters

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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Spreading Easter cheer!

 
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.

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By George! Announcing our patron saint’s day menu.

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.

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Anthony Garlando and friends – the early days!

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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A feast for Saint Patrick

Donegal oysters with Guinness & whiskey jelly

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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aqua shard Aces – the kings & queens of pancake races!

aqua shard Aces and their supporters at the Flipping Great SE1 Pancake Race

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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Why settle for one day when you can have Pancake Week?

aqua shard pancakes with strawberry ice-cream & maple pecan syrup

Officially there’s only one Pancake Day – or Shrove Tuesday, to give it its proper name – which this year falls on Tuesday 4th March. But we think you’ll like our special pancake dishes so much that we’re making them available not just on Shrove Tuesday, but for the rest of the week as well, until Friday 7th March inclusive.
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Wake up to eggs & bacon on Collop Monday!

aqua shard Eggs & Bacon: 63˚ͦ steamed egg, crispy bacon and potatoes, potato mousse

You’ll probably know that Shrove Tuesday – also known as Pancake Day and Mardi Gras, or ‘Fat Tuesday’ - is a Christian tradition, whereby rich ingredients including milk, eggs and sugar are purposely used up before they are given up for the fast of Lent.

Less well-known-about however is Collop Monday, the day before Shrove Tuesday. This was traditionally the day to use the last of the meat in the house, (a ‘collop’ is a piece or slice of meat) which was usually bacon, served with eggs. The fat used to cook the bacon was then kept and used to cook the pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, ensuring that nothing went to waste.
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