ProseccoMillesimato Brut Bosco del Merlo Toasted nuts, kalamata olives ~ Chilled carrot and cumin velouté, parsnip, ginger and coriander fritter ~ Chicken with preserved lemons and olives, bulgur, tenderstem broccoli with mint and harissa
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Roast cauliflower and chickpeas with preserved lemons and olives, bulgur, tenderstem broccoli with mint and harissa (V)* ~ Plum, anise and walnut cake, orange blossom mascarpone cream
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*vegetarian option available only on pre-order Wine list
Sparkling and Champagne ProseccoMillesimato Brut Bosco del Merlo DOC £8/£39 NV Cuvee Reserve, Champagne Pierre Gerbais £75 2016 Resonance, Champagne Marie-Courtin £85 ~ Orange and Rose Corbieres Rose Chateau Ollie ux-Romanis, Languedoc, 2017 £6.5/£30 L’Apostrophe Rose Varois, Domaine Les Terres Promises ,2019 £39 Baglio Antico IGP Catarratto NL, 2019 (Orange) £8/£39 ~ White Le Lesc, Cotes de Gascone IGP , 2016 £6/£25 Ciello Bianco Catarratto, Sicily 2018 £27 Falerio DOP Oris Bianco, Ciu Ciu, Marche, 2018 £6.5/£30 Muscadet , Domaine du Verge, Luneau-Papin, Loire, 2018 £6.75/£33 Grüner Veltliner Handcrafted, MA Andorfer Mitges-Kamptal, Austria, 2019 £35 Gavi Di Tassarolo ''La Fornace'' , Cinzia Bergaglio, Piemonte , 2017 £7.5/£36 Macon Chardonnay , Les Cadoles, Burgundy ,2016 £39 Sauvignon Blanc, Domaine Frantz Saumon, Loire 2019 £8/£40 Weissburgunder, Weingut Judith Beck, Burgenland, Austria 2018 £42 G’mischter Sotz, Andert-Wein, Burgenland, Austria 2018 Natural £46 Terlaner Riserve Della Contessa DOC, Manincor, Trentino Alto Adige 2018 £11.5/£52 Opok White Blend, WeingutSepp Munster, Styria, Austria 2019 £53 SP 68 Bianco, Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily, Italy 2019 £55 ~ Red Pago deTharsys Bobal Tinto 2019 £6.5/£28 Faugeres Domaine Les Leonides £36 Malbec Classic Organic Bodega Cecchin, Mendoza, Argentina 2018 £7.5/£37 Blaufränkisch Franz Weninger, Burgenland, Austria, 2017 £38 Zweigelt, Weingut Judith Beck, Burgenland, Austria 2018 £38 Syrah Seduzione, Bosco del Merlo, Veneto 2018 £8/£39 Valpolicella Classico Saseti, Montedall’Ora, Veneto,2019 £8.5/£42 Trollinger Strumpfelbach, Weingut Andi Knauss, Germany 2017 £42 Barbera “Rossore”, Cantina Iuli, Piemonte 2016 £43 Nebbiolo delle Langhe, Ferdinando Principiano, Piemonte, 2018 £44 Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2017, Domaine Perrin, Burgundy £9.5/£46 Chateau La Croix Chantecaille, Saint-Emilion Grand-Cru, Bordeaux 2013 £10/£48 Teroldego Rotaliano, Foradori, Trentino 2018 £55 Refosco Riserva Roggio dei Roveri, Bosco del Merlo,Veneto 2015 £12/£56 Montepulciano d’Abruzzo “Marina Cvetic”, Gianni Masciarelli, Abruzzo 2016 £59 Chianti Classico Riserva Caparsino, Azienda Agricola Caparsa, Toscana 2014 £62 Barolo di Serralunga DOCG, Ferdinando Principiano, Piemonte 2016 £69 Welcome to the Fidelio Orchestra Cafe, I hope you are looking forward to this evening with us. We have taken all precautions to ensure your safety is prioritised during these very special events.
The circumstances in which we are living are extremely challenging for live music making and for any artistic endeavour that is based on sharing a physical space together. However uncertain and still unsafe our cities and our societies feel, however vague and often incoherent the guidance we are receiving appears, I have decided to go on with this project, because I believe the benefits to the musicians involved and to the audience so intensly craving for spiritual recovery outdo the risks. I am grateful to see that you have so eagerly taken on this daring idea and I thank you for the trust you are showing us by being here tonight.
As our societies slowly make an attempt to go back to normal life, these concerts want to be a small contribution towards rebuilding a society with taste. I have created this space with the ambition to make music not just as “entertainment”, but as a bettering practice for everybody. Music is ultimately a great summary of human aspiration and rebuilding from music means rebuilding from this fundaamental desire to understand and to improve: it means rebuilding from human freedom.
This is a longterm project. If we want to make society at large interested in music, if we want to give the opportunity to those who don’t know what music is about to love it and ultimately to contribute to the freedom of the individual in our society, we need to work on finding new ways of communicating music for what it is, rather than for what we think it should be. This won’t happen from one day to the next, but I like to think that the Fidelio Orchestra project is a small contribution in that direction.
R.Morales- Fidelio Orchestra, music director ~