Midnight Garden @ Inner Temple Gardens
About Midnight Garden @ Inner Temple Gardens
Exclusive parties are available at this venueThe newest most exciting venue in the city for Christmas 2007! This year The marquee at the Inner Temple Gardens will be turned into a magical midnight garden. Leave the grime and bustle of central London behind and stop into a magical midnight garden. Guests will be greeted at the impressive wrought iron gates & then walk down a wide avenue of trees filled with lights, creating a sparkling canopy. As the drinks flow from the bar, the centrepiece of the reception area will be a wonderful pond and fountain. The pond edge will shine silver in the light and be filled with beautiful pink lilies. A beautiful songbird will be singing to guests perched on a silver swing. Later the curtains will be drawn back to reveal a magical night sky with an enormous shining moon hanging over the stage & dinner will be served. After dinner guests can chill out in their magical surroundings or dance the night away to the discotheque.
Sample seated dinner menu
Starter
- Scottish smoked salmon on large buckwheat blini with pickled vegetables- Coarse chicken liver and brandy pate with red onion marmalade, melba toast
- Red pepper parfait goat's cheese, basil and sage dressing
- Creamed leek, feta and red onion tart on watercress with roast chestnut vinaigrette
- Confit duck salad with balsamic reduction, lotus crisps
- Salmon and dill fish cake on parsley, garden puree & lemon oil
Main Course
- Guinea fowl with roasted vegetables, parsnip potato cake, spinach and chicken cream sauce- Corn fed chicken breast with an oversized hash brown, roasted root vegetables and chestnut mushroom sauce
- Seared confit duck breast with cinnamon apple compote, crushed new potatoes, reduction glaze
- Kentish saddle of lamb with braised lentils, sweet potato mash with a port and rosemary reduction
- Mull spiced confit of pork belly on sweet potato rosti, winter root vegetables and a calvados cream sauce
- Roast butternut squash, ricotta, olives and pine kernels in filo pastry with a pepper sauce
- Vegetarian Christmas strudel with braised red cabbage and piquant sauce
Dessert
- Pear and blackberry crumble with cinnamon crème fraiche- Golden Christmas pudding with brandy sauce
- Mixed berry trifle with dark chocolate and honeycomb
- Chocolate and hazelnut tart with crushed amaretti
- Sticky toffee pudding with butterscotch sauce, clotted cream ice cream
- Eggnog crème brulee with cinnamon shortbread and kirsch soaked cherries
- Ginger and orange pudding with vanilla bean ice-cream
- Eton mess with whipped cream, meringue and fruit