Gin Supper Clubs at The Jekyll and Hyde

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Birmingham's Jekyll and Hyde pub is a vintage-lover's paradise. With its quirky Victorianesque decor, and its Alice-In-Wonderland-themed courtyard, this venue is certainly not short on character.

Upstairs, the Gin Parlour is stocked with fifty varieties of the drink. Well-known brands including Hendricks and Boston Sapphire share the shelves with more obscure bottles, many flavoured with ingredients like saffron, damson and sloe berries.

Less talked-about, perhaps, is the selection of food available at the Jekyll and Hyde. This year, the Eat Me Drink Me gin supper club was introduced, combining a three course meal with a gin masterclass, and a cocktail for each course.

The Setting

The gin parlour's period features build a mood of old world elegance, while quirky 1950s pictures and candles housed in old gin bottles add amusing twists. A gramophone, a giant champagne coupe and trilling jazz songs send you back to Prohibition-era America. The Great Gatsby might spring to mind.

The Talk

A friendly and knowledgable talk guides diners through a potted history of gin, from its origins in the Anglo-Dutch Wars, to its pairing with tonic as a (useless) guard against malaria in British India, to its revival in the 1980s as a ‘trendy' drink.

SAMPLE MENU

Appetiser

Duck liver & Juniper parfait £5 ½

Apple & calvados puree, quince jelly, pea shoots, toasted rye bread

Treacle cured salmon £5 ½

Hendricks cucumber salsa, potato & chive pancake, lemon crème fraiche

Pistachio crumbed goats cheese croquettes £5

Honey goats cheese cream, chicory salad, spiced pear dressing

Dinner

Juniper & star anise braised Blade of Beef £14

Haymans sloe gin jus, horseradish mash, trio of carrot

Pan fried Sea bream_ _£11

crushed Jersey royal potatoes, samphire, salsa verde_           _

Wild garlic & parsley gnocchi £8

Panko crusted salsify, goats cheese cream sauce, (v)

Dessert

Rose scented panna cotta £5

Hendricks soaked strawberries, sweet cucumber, strawberry tuille

Ginger cake £5

Saffron gin rhubarb compote, white chocolate ice cream

Herefordshire cheese board £6

Williams Chase pear & apple jelly, Wye Valley Butty Bach ale chutney

If you fancy trying the Eat Me, Drink Me Gin Supper Club, learn more at The Jekyll and Hyde website.

Author: ahmed