Dom Pérignon and Chef Clare Smyth - Match Made in Heaven

Words by
Louis Crompton

7th September 2023

Calling all Champagne foodies - for one night only. Mark your diary for 14th November 2023 for a very, very special dining and Champagne event - Dom Pérignon and Chef Clare Smyth. You're invited (with a price tag!) to experience a six-course experience of Clare Smyth and CORE classic dishes paired with Dom Pérignon vintages, including the rare DP Rosé.

Dom Pérignon and Chef Clare Smyth hot ticket

Each course will feature superb British produce selected by Clare Smyth, crafted around her own journey and love of nature. Clare, who grew up on a farm commented: “I had a deep understanding of what it took to produce food. It would have been in my late twenties that I started to understand what food meant to me personally, this was my part of my journey. We must be connected to our food. It must create an emotion, a memory, warmth, hospitality, generosity.”

The ticket price for this one-off is no snip at £975 per head, but for foodie Champagne enthusiasts, if you want to go heaven just for one night, this could be it. Maybe a special anniversary or birthday treat? Or just a post-COVID indulgence.

Dom Pérignon and Clare Smyth - Creation and Reinvention
Dom Pérignon and Clare Smyth - Creation and Reinvention

Highlights on the night will include Cornish Turbot with crab, cucumber in ras el hanout broth, inspired by Dom Pérignon Plénitude 2 and Sutton Hoo Chicken inspired by the revered Dom Pérignon Rosé 2008, a complex vintage that should go well with the cockles, clams, caviar and chicken. For truffle lovers, there is white truffle linguine, all finished off with a trendy 'Notting Hill Forest'. We wouldn’t dream of sending SPHERE readers to Black Forest Siberia.

Clare Smyth's Cornish Turbot
Clare Smyth's Cornish Turbot

The full extravaganza is listed below. It's going to be a special splash at £975 per person. Tickets have just gone in sale this week  https://www.corebyclaresmyth.com/

The Cornish Turbot perfectly paired with Dom Pérignon Plénitude 2 2004
The Cornish Turbot perfectly paired with Dom Pérignon Plénitude 2 2004
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