Viva Lewes Issue #128 May 2017

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Aqua is a wonderful independent family run restaurant serving fresh, seasonal dishes for every occasion. BELLINI TIME 2 for 1 Sparkling Bellini cocktails All Bellinis are £7.50 Served from noon to 7pm every day. LUNCH & EARLY DINNER MENU 2 Courses £10.95 or 3 Courses £12.95 Served Monday to Saturday 12-7pm TRADITIONAL SUNDAY ROAST £11.95 Served all day Sunday 2 Courses £14.95 | 3 Courses £16.95 A choice of striploin of beef, slow roasted belly of pork or chicken with homemade Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables & all the trimmings. NEW CHILDREN’S MENU 2 Courses & a drink £6.95 * Prices subject to change The Old Courthouse, Lewes, BN7 2FS Tel. 01273 470 763 | lewes@aqua-restaurant.com | www.aqua-restaurant.com @aquaitalia /aqua_restaurant /aquaitaliarestaurant
FOOD REVIEW The Feature Kitchen Addis Ababa in your own back garden “He said he was from South Sudan,” says my mum, down the phone. “He was a very nice chap.” And: “There’s lots of bits. I don’t know how you’re going to heat it all up.” I’m staying the weekend at her house in Kingston, but I’m out and about on Saturday evening, and she’s been left to collect and pay for what will be Sunday’s lunch. The ‘bits’ are the April menu from The Feature Kitchen, a new takeaway delivery service, run by food author Jacob Folio Todd, the ‘nice chap’. It’s an enterprise based in Lewes; Jacob is planning to invite a series of locally based chefs from around the world to cook up a menu based on their cuisine, which will be delivered on Saturdays. Every month will feature a different country: in April it’s Ethiopian food, devised by Genet & Abeba, from Addis Ababa. When I get home the fridge is packed full of little labelled Tupperware boxes containing exotic foodstuff. The labels say things like ‘misir wat’, and ‘yebigir alicha’ and ‘ye-abesha gomen’. There’s a little slip of paper with translations, in this case ‘a rich spicy red lentil sauce flavoured with Berbere spice mix’, ‘small pieces of lamb stewed with onions and finished with turmeric’ and ‘braised spring greens with mild green chilli’. In all there are eight different items, as well as vast stretches of ‘injera’, translated as ‘Ethiopian fermented staple, an aerated flatbread’ which is soft and spongy and rolled into sausage shapes. Sunday is about as hot as April days can get, so we opt to eat in the garden. My mother – usually quite adventurous in her food tastes – has opted to have fish and chips, however nice the chap was, so Rowena and I are left with three portions to get through. The microwave comes into its own and my wife’s eyes grow in anticipation as I bring steaming dish after steaming dish to the table. We’ve tried out the Ethiopian restaurant in Baker Street in Brighton, so we know what to do. The knife and fork is useful for cutting things like chicken and hard-boiled egg, but the most important utensil is the injera, which you use to grab morsels of food from the various dishes, to make little parcels. It’s messy, in our inexpert hands, but it’s fun. My mother looks on for a bit before opting to return to her book inside. There’s a cabbagy dish that neither of us take to, but other than that, everything is delicious. The doro wat, cooked in a rich, (not overly) piquant red Berbere sauce - one of the key ingredients to cooking in this part of East Africa - is outstanding. The whole process is educational, as well as extremely tasty. It’s also all rather exciting. I haven’t a clue what nationality Jacob is planning to bring to our tables in May, but I’m eager to find out. Alex Leith £12 per person, vegetarian menu also available. 07876655664 / thefeaturekitchen.co.uk / info@thefeaturekitchen.co.uk Photo by Rowena Easton 69
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