Radiohead × Hans Zimmer’s Ocean Bloom swelled, and the jungle-garden fell quiet - the kind of hush that makes you feel the world breathing back.
We turned a city garden into a small wild: leaves hanging as a roof, ceramic termite mounds, candles cupped in lemon skins, foraged native grasses down the table, name tags inked on banana-bud leaves. Each course travelled an ecosystem - underground, land/sea, air - to remind us we’re threaded through soil, water, and sky.
Midway, we shuffled seats and followed a string of questions: What moved you? What small detail surprised you? The prompt wasn’t about fixing the world, but falling in love with it - again and again. Throughout, naturalist Gurveena Ghataure stitched stories between courses - closing the distance between what we eat and where it begins; choices matter, and food waste is a lever.
Alchemy
By-catch coconut-crusted fish goujons arrived hidden under banana leaf, perched on roadside coconut-flesh purée, crowned with a bright jalebi “net” and a whole fish head and bones. Guests had to lift - and discard - four layers before reaching the food, a felt lesson in by-catch and what our plates usually waste. The impact of by-catch is massive; every kilo of prawns can generate ~20kg of discarded life. Our dish used trimmings and “unwanted” parts to flip the script.
Menu highlights
Sweet potato “Termite Mound” with crispy skins, limp terere & foraged nettle pesto
Sprouted forgotten-crop tabbouleh with burnt leeks, cauliflower leaves, wild sorrel & toasted tiger-nut tubers
Revived stale-sourdough tostadas with fermented tea leaves, mango-peel & radish-leaf salsa, and lacto-fermented limes
Honey–banana-peel–amaranth & buckwheat muffins with crushed crickets, caramelised banana blossom & coconut yogurt
Fermented pineapple-skin, basil & skin-on ginger tequila smash (arrival quencher)
Ripple
People left speaking a new language - of grasses and by-catch, of pollinators and patience. They tasted that beneath every feast is a field, and that attention (and appetite) can be activism.
