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F O O D & D R I N K<br />
Some enchanted evening<br />
AN INTIMATE DINNER PARTY EXPERIENCE SHOWCASING THE BEST LOCAL AND<br />
SEASON PRODUCE IN ON THE MENU WHEN YOU DINE WITH SKC SUPPERCLUBS,<br />
AS AMY NORBURY DISCOVERED<br />
Who doesn’t love a good dinner party? Good food,<br />
fine wine and flowing conversation always make<br />
for a sterling evening. Even better if, rather than<br />
hosting and cooking, you have a private chef to do<br />
all the hard work for you. Better still if said chef<br />
has a beautiful home for you to use for the evening,<br />
meaning all that washing up and tidying away is left<br />
behind too.<br />
Enter Susie Corbin, founder of SKC SupperClubs<br />
based in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside.<br />
Talented chef Susie cut her teeth in the kitchens of<br />
London’s brunch hotspots, landing her first head<br />
chef role in a West London seafood restaurant<br />
before moving home to the Midlands as head<br />
chef of Lichfield favourite Thyme Kitchen. Since<br />
departing Thyme, Susie has worked as a private chef<br />
for discerning diners looking for restaurant quality<br />
food in their own homes before setting up SKC<br />
SupperClubs alongside husband Michael.<br />
Initially seasonal, SKC SupperClubs now hosts<br />
monthly dining experiences, showcasing the very best<br />
of seasonal and local produce and attracting diners<br />
near and far to events set on a private estate in the<br />
pretty Derbyshire village of Egginton.<br />
The Glasshouse is a beautiful, Victorian orangery<br />
located in the stunning gardens of the Corbins’<br />
family home, and provides a picturesque setting for<br />
Susie’s intimate supper clubs. <strong>J’AIME</strong> was invited to<br />
join the Spring Supper Club event, making the trip<br />
across the county border to<br />
We were welcomed with a glass of local fizz,<br />
produced in the vineyards of historic Renishaw<br />
Hall in Derbyshire, before being shown through<br />
to the cosy lounge, where our fellow diners were<br />
already gathered. This was an opportunity for the<br />
guests to chat; the supper clubs are a truly convivial<br />
experience, with all diners seated together on<br />
one large table, so it was nice to enjoy a welcome<br />
icebreaker before dinner.<br />
Susie’s supper clubs are already making a name for<br />
themselves as, alongside diners who had popped over<br />
from the neighbouring villages, guests for the evening<br />
LICHFI<br />
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