Roasted fillet of halibut & horse mushrooms

This week, Head Chef Marcus Verberne brings together horse mushrooms, wild garlic and potato mousseline with a delicious roasted fillet of Hebridean halibut. With a selection of refined soft textures for your palate, this dish is the perfect accompaniment to the Club’s collection of delicate, aromatic wines. Our chefs will be serving the halibut as a main course in the Clubroom where our sommeliers will be waiting, bottle in hand...

A giant mushroom for big families

As we know, one of Marcus’ passions is sourcing flavoursome ingredients that are slightly off the beaten track. Well, this story is a very good example if you wish to know Marcus a little better… “As a child back in New Zealand, we lived on a hill above a grass airstrip. As a family we’d walk down the hill to the airstrip from time to time to collect horse mushrooms for breakfast. They start out with a closed cap like a button mushroom but as they grew, they’d open out into a large flat field mushroom up to the size of a dinner plate. My mother would cook them in garlic butter for breakfast with fried eggs. They were so big, she could only fit one at a time in the frying pan and 2-3 mushrooms would be enough for the whole family… There were six of us.” We invite you to click on the link below to see quite how large these mushrooms can reach... they are certainly not something you would find in your local supermarket. Do not panic however, Marcus has only selected button-size horse mushrooms for this dish!

Wine Pairing

Terry, our Head Sommelier suggests: 2016 Chardonnay, Judd Vineyard, Ten Minutes By Tractor @ £11.00 per glass Ten Minutes by Tractor is truly a pioneer in fine Chardonnay and Pinot, having made some of Australia’s most iconic wines in Mornington Peninsula since the early 2000s.This is a truly unique style of Chardonnay, reminiscent of fine white Burgundies with lightly toasted, waxy oak on the nose. The classic matchstick notes & hints of brioche are very evident in the glass – characters that match the buttery aspect of the dish perfectly.A full-bodied, yet carefully crafted and contained modern Chardonnay that has wonderful weight to support the meatiness of the Halibut.

MORE INFORMATION

Giant Horse Mushrooms Ten Minutes by Tractor Contact us Contact the Reservations team: email: reservations@67pallmall.co.uk tel: +44 (0)20 3794 2497