Phoenix Nights
Thursday July 1, 2021
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Spitalfields City Farm, Buxton Street, London, E1 5AR (map)
About the event
We were delighted to return to one of our favourite venues, The Spitalfields City Farm, for our first event of 2021. Like us, the City Farm has been closed since March 2020 so it felt right to celebrate the ‘new normal’ together- like a pair of Phoenix rising from the ashes.
It felt very special to see all the Mike’s Table team again. We hadn’t seen each other for over a year. As Andi said, “It’s like putting the band back together”.
And it was a thumbs up from all our guests who really enjoyed the setting and the meal over two balmy evenings in July.(map)
To make this a very special celebration we invited our friends at Uncharted Wines to provide a flight of delicious, organic, natural wines to accompany the incredible menu supper our chefs will proudly cooked up on the night using surplus food and farm produce.
Menu
Heritage Tomato Salad with farm-grown chives served with bread & butter
Marinated and BBQ’d Pork Steaks or Spicy Fettuccine with Grilled Asparagus, Courgette and Cauliflower with mashed chickpea salad and a leaf and herb farm-gown salad (Thursday)
BBQ’d beef patties and farm sausages with home-made ketchup, onion relish with couscous & feta salad, jersey royals, grilled peppers and a leaf & herb farm-grown salad. (Friday)
Strawberry Eton Mess with home-baked Shortbread
Wines
Westwell Naturally Petulant 2020
Cosimo Maria Masini Matilde Rose 2019
Smith-Chapel Bourgogne Aligote 2020
Domaine Thillardon Chenas Vibrations 2017
Volunteers
Uncharted Wines: Rupert
Front of House: Giles, Carmen, Raoul, Mala, Natalie, Mike, Sam & Louise
Kitchen: T, Nic, Alan, Andi & Daniel
Hosts (Friday): Jess, James, Mala, John & Declan - for the first time we asked our volunteers to sit and eat at the table with our non-paying guests. This really worked out well as conversation flowed and the guests clearly felt relaxed and at ease.
Charity Partners
Guests for the second evening were referred to us by . . . . Room to Heal, The Richmond Fellowship, Prisoners Abroad, Compassionate Neighbours & Funpact
Food & Drink Partners
City Harvest London, Specialty Drinks, Spitalfields City Farm, Ronni’s Bakery
Photographs by Sam, John & Louise
With special thanks to Nikki Tadema and Phil Nichols.
Kind words
“Thank you for yet another great Mike’s table evening. You have put together an excellent team of people, especially the Chef. Also Well done for creating such a friendly environment for me to enjoy in the early days of lockdown release.”
”I feel honoured 2 have been asked 2 the lovely celebration lastnight thank u soooooo very much ,1 of the best nights I have ever had most delicious food best company &wonderful location x God bless always &thank u again”
“Thank you very much for a fab evening, really very magical! Please pass on to the whole team how very special they make these nights, it was so lovely after this big break to see lots of the regulars, sitting here smiling as I type, really top bunch of guys and girls.”
“I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful evening & delicious dinner last night. The whole evening was very special and a testament to the hard work you all put in to make it happen. An amazing concept. I hope tonight goes well too!”
