LEONARDSLEE LAKES & GARDENS LAUNCHES R E S TA U R A N T I N T E R L U D E Restaurant Interlude is a new restaurant destination at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens - the historic 200 acre estate, with Grade I Listed gardens, near Horsham in West Sussex. The restaurant is open for dinner from Wednesday to Saturday weekly, with ten tables. Bookings are online at www.restaurant-interlude.co.uk.
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nterlude connects lovers of fine dining with the very spirit of Leonardslee, the finest woodland gardens in England, carefully curated for over 200 years. Every dish in each seasonal, multicourse tasting menu is designed to a huntergatherer farmer concept of food that’s foraged, cultivated and raised on the estate or close by. It is savoured and enjoyed as an intimate dining experience, a small, exclusive dinner party within the estate’s Italianate mansion house.” says owner Penny Streeter OBE. The hospitality entrepreneur, owner of
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vineyards in the UK and South Africa, bought the Leonardslee estate in 2017. She has opened the restaurant (October 19th 2018) after 18 months’ intensive restoration of the gardens and Grade II Listed mansion house. The gardens will open in early 2019. Diners can feast on the multiple courses that include for example: estate rabbit, winter purslane, hogweed cider and charcoal; also fallow deer with local braai and sour raspberry; and oyster, foraged greens and juniper. Penny Streeter brought Executive Chef Jean
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