WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | croissant | lychee | peach and blueberry with raspberry sorbet
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- Spellbinder: cocktail (2 ounces gin, 1/2 ounce dry vermouth,1/4 ounce Strega, 1 lemon peel strip, 1 cucumber peel for garnish) | Scottish blue cheese | Italian country bread | tea quail eggs | marinated bow-tied fresh kelp
DINNER --- Gazpacho: tomato, cucumber, sweet corn, sweet onion | Paella : baby octopus, maitake mushroom, spring onion, and Roma green beans |sauteed pea shoots | salad: young greens, cherry tomatoes, radish, fennel | rose
- the cocktail "spellbinder" is strong and refreshing. "This aromatic summer spin on the traditional gin martini takes its vivid hue from Strega, an Italian liqueur infused with saffron." --- Three-ingredient Summer Cocktails, NYT
- Spain rules the dinner of gazpacho soup and octopus paella.
