The Vino Kitchen

VINO KITCHEN 'TOPSHAM TABLE' WILL TAKE PLACE ON WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25TH - EMAIL MARC TO RESERVE YOUR PLACES

The Vino Kitchen is something special and unique, an occasional ‘pop–up’ restaurant that appears (and disappears) about once a month in the Pebblebed Tasting Cellar in Topsham.

Food and wine writer and photographer Marc and Kim have spent decades travelling around the wine country of Europe while researching, writing and photographing our numerous wine, food and travel books. The Vino Kitchen is an opportunity for us to prepare simple, homecooked, authentic meals, mainly from the Italian wine country, to accompany our range of Vino wines that are available in the atmospheric and convivial Pebblebed Tasting Cellar.

Everyone sits together at the trestle tables and enjoys a simple, homecooked 3-course set menu. It’s all quite cosy as the evenings are very popular – and very friendly and informal. Don't worry if you haven't been before or don't know anyone else: part of these evenings is about meeting new people and making new friends, as well as enjoying honest and delicious food and wine.

Normally the evenings are priced at £18.50 for three courses (£15 for current Club Vino members). Occasionally we offer more special festive evenings.

Space in the Pebblebed Tasting Cellar is limited and our evenings have proved to be very popular. To reserve your place, email marc@vino.co.uk or telephone 01392 873778.

Here is the menu for the June Vino Kitchen, a special 'Topsham Table' as part of the Topsham Food Festival

Town Mill bruschetta
Topsham-baked sourdough with Frances' amazing Topsham-Tuscan olive oil
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Wood-roasted Exmouth mackerel with salad
Fresh-off-the-boat mackerel from David Kerley at The Fish Shed
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Kenniford Farm freerange belly pork slow-braised in Green Valley cyder and apples
Local new potatoes
Wood-roasted carrots and dill
Pork supplied by Kenniford Farm, cyder from Darts Farm and veg from Richard's Fruit and Vegetables
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Strawberries and Devon clotted cream
Strawberries picked this morning from Boyces Fruit Farm, Shillingford St George with Dunn's Dairy Devon clotted cream

May 2010

Minestrone estivo con pesto
Summer minestrone with homemade pesto

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La tagliata
Char-grilled flank steak with herb salad and shavings of grana padano

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Torta di pere e mandorle
Pear and almond tart

April 2010

Insalata primavera
Fennel and orange salad with toasted pinenuts, grana padano shavings and Tuscan lemon oil

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Agnello brasato
24-hour slow-roasted Exmoor lamb with Montepulciano wine
potatoes and spring cabbage

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Crema catalana with new season rhubarb

March 2010

Risotto ai funghi

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Baccalà fresca all'anconetana
Freshly landed Brixham cod stewed with fennel, chillies, white wine and tomato

Insalata verde

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Tiramisù

February 2010

'A Taste of Sicily’

Pasta 'cui vroccoli'
Sicilian pasta with cauliflower and broccoli
in an agrodolce with raisins and pinenuts

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Sicilian sausages
Made from local pork, flavoured with fennel seeds, made by Tony of Arthurs

La caponata

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Torta di limone e polenta
Sicilian lemon and polenta cake

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January 2010

‘Vino Kitchen Winter Italian Table’

La ribollita
Tuscan vegetable, bean and sourdough bread soup

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Arista di maiale all'aceto balsamico
Kenniford free-range loin of pork, char-grilled, then slow-roasted
with onions, rosemary and balsamic vinegar

Carote all'agro

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Torta di arancia
Orange cake

December 2009

‘Festive Italian Table’

Bellini cocktail
Crostino di fegatino - Tuscan chicken liver crostino

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Zuppa di farro
Warming spelt, chickpea and cavolo nero soup

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Peposo
Short ribs of Red Ruby Devon beef slow-braised Tuscan style in Chianti and lots of black pepper

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Mousse di cioccolato
Chocolate mousse Italian style

November 2009

‘Italian Table’

Pasta e fasoi
Venetian style pasta and beans in a rich duck broth

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Pollo alle cacciatore
verdure arrostite
insalatina mista
Chicken cooked 'hunter's style' in red wine with pancetta, wild mushrooms and rosemary

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Pecorino marzolino with Tuscan honey

Tiramisù

October 2009

‘Italian Table’
La Bagna Cauda

Antipasti piemontese
Mixed Piedmont antipasti

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La Bagna Cauda

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Formaggi piemontesi
Selection of Piedmont cheeses

Mario Fontana’s new Dolcetto (just 20 days old!)

September 2009

‘American Table’

New England style mussel and corn chowder

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Slow-roasted brisket of beef in barbeque sauce, cooked in the wood-oven

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New York style chocolate, lime and chilli cheesecake

August 2009

‘Italian Table’

La panzanella
Tuscan ‘bread’ salad

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La porchetta
Roman style roast pork stuffed with fennel, garlic and chilli

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Pecorino cheese

July 2009

‘Italian Table’
 “Una cenetta al limone’ – a lemony summer supper

Risotto al limone
Lemon risotto

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Pollo al limone
Chicken braised in lemon

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Torta al limone
Lemon tart

June 2009

‘Italian Table’

Crostini in 5 modi

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Brodetto
Adriatic fish and shellfish stew

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Zuppa di fragola
Strawberry ‘soup’

May 2009

‘Italian Table’

Sgombro in saor
Exmouth mackerel in a Venetian sweet and sour agrodolce

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Salsicce toscane e fagioli nel fiasco
Tuscan sausages and cannellini beans with sage