At home with Tim Allen

Michelin-starred dining Award-winning wines At home with friends

“Calling all food lovers.”

What if there was a way to entertain family and friends in the comfort of your own home, hassle- free, with your very own local Michelin-starred ?

Michelin-starred chef, Tim intimate dinner party or So instead of eating out Allen, is proud to offer an informal get-together. for your next big birthday you the very best food and celebration, why not drink experience in the Tim will work closely with impress your guests with a comfortable and relaxing you to create a unique dinner party to remember setting of your own home, epicurean story for you in the comfort of your putting you and your and your guests, own kitchen? guests first with Tim’s interacting as much or as notorious food and little as you’d like. excellent service. We’ll design a menu with Tim and his team from the you; we’ll buy the Flitch of Inn will ingredients; we’ll cook in personally create tailor- your own kitchen; serve made culinary and social your expectant guests and experiences for any we’ll even clean up before occasion, whether it’s a we leave. What’s not to special celebration, an like? “I love my food and I suspect you do too.”

Working as a chef in Dunmow, I’m very fortunate to have a wonderful bounty of local growers who harvest the coast, forests and marshlands for high quality produce which you’ll, no doubt, be used to finding in local markets, farm shops and foodie festivals all around Essex.

I’m passionate about local, I’m a Yorkshireman seasonal ingredients and through and through but I at Tim Allen’s Flitch of fell in love with The Flitch Bacon Inn, I’m lucky to be at first sight when I moved surrounded by a wealth of to Essex to take it over. amazing producers who take great care in I’ve been a chef all my everything that they grow working life and I’ve or rear. always been obsessed with serving the highest quality Year after year they are dishes featuring local, experience in the relaxing dedicated to providing me seasonal and authentic comfort of your own and my team with the ingredients. home. highest quality, seasonal ingredients for us to bake I love the variety of our own bread, make our amazing produce grown in own homemade jams and the larder of Essex sauces, and create our year-on -year; I’m well and tasty modern British truly in my element and signature dishes. I’d be thrilled to create a Tim Allen genuine “Flitch” dining Chef Parton You can take the man out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the man.

“I want to create food that connects people and makes special memories.”

Tim and wife Magali always puts their diners and guests first with the finest modern British cuisine, celebrating amazing seasonal produce.

Tim is formerly the Tim and Magali have They are thrilled to be able Executive Head Chef at transformed their to offer their unique Michelin-starred The Wild charming historical inn, private chef experience in Rabbit in Kingham. A bringing their very special your home with their proud Yorkshireman by combination of exquisite signature locally sourced birth, Tim started his food and excellent service seasonal menus, career locally to Little Dunmow. handpicked wines and before moving to the carefully selected South. It’s easy to see why the cocktails. Flitch is becoming a real Prior to Tim’s seven year favourite in Essex’s tenure at Whatley Manor, blossoming restaurant he worked for four years scene. with John Burton-Race, first at L’Ortolan. “Five reasons to love autumn.”

Tim’s sample autumn five-course menu

Duck egg Florentine Truffle purée, slow cooked bacon, crispy sourdough, crème fraîche, pickled

Cornish mackerel Fowey oyster, English mustard, frozen dill buttermilk, Granny Smith, borage flowers

Great Garnetts’ pork tenderloin Provence fig, hay purée, salt baked apple, crispy black pudding, wood sorrel, pickled mustard seeds

Raspberry Breton shortbread, caramelised white chocolate, raspberry sorbet

Cheeseboard - Cerney, Golden Cross, Pont l’Évêque, Mayfield, Fourme au Maury, Celtic Promise, Barkham Blue

Coffee, handmade chocolates

“Tailored to you.”

The following menu prices offer an indication of Tim’s dining experience. A precise menu price will be given once you have personally selected your tailored menu with Tim.

Three course dinner From £50 per person

Four course dinner From £60 per person

Five course dinner From £70 per person

Please note the above quoted prices are inclusive of VAT but do not include the following:

Tim Allen’s fee, charged at £1,000 Waiting staff, charged at £8.50 per hour (minimum of 4 hours) Transport, priced subject to location

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

We will supply all the necessary kitchen catering equipment.

We can either use your crockery, china and glassware or provide a hire quotation to suit your requirements. 01371 821 660 www.flitchofbacon.co.uk [email protected]

Tim Allen’s Flitch of Bacon Inn, The Street, Little Dunmow, Dunmow CM6 3HT