pop-up restaurant and it developed out
of my love of hosting dinner parties so
what happens is my dinner guests book
online beforehand and I prepare a set
menu for them as our guests arrive we
like to offer them some nibbles so this
evening we’re having some nice big juicy
green olives drizzled with a little
olive oil since we moved in here I’ve
been or we including job I’ve been doing
quite big dinner parties for local
friends and over the years they got sort
of friends bigger and more adventurous
menus as I some growing confidence we
were thinking you know about how could
we you know turn it into something
this website we FIFO came along which is
the site that I used for my ticket sales
that gave us the kind of back up to feel
that we could actually give it a go and
I think we’ve served something in the
region of 275 meals we do have a kind of
core of regulars who’ve been several
times the actual number of people I’m
not sure of when we first bought this
house so we came in and took out the
walls knocked through a living dining
area I had a plan for the kitchen how it
would go
joël maids made a comment at the time
about how the kitchen was supposed to be
taking over the whole of the ground
floor and coined the term kitchen aureum
so when we came to do this and set it up
it seemed like they just seemed like the
right name yeah a lot of people ask if
it’s a bit strange having people you
don’t know come into your house but it’s
not really people sort of once they’ve
come through the front door and sat down
at your table there’s there’s almost
instantly friends really it’s it’s
really nice it’s part of what I really
enjoy about throwing dinner parties for
large groups of people the kind of
hello everybody welcome to kitchen oi in
this evening thank you very much for
coming I hope everyone’s comfy we’ve got
extra cushions there you can grab if you
need one I’m just going to run through
the menu for you we’ve got chicken
cacciatore with rosemary potatoes and
for dessert we have ricotta cheesecake
with butterscotch sauce there’s water on
the table and glasses and if you have
any bottles of wine with you we can open
those for you if you need anything else
at all just let me know and the felt tip
pens there are for doodling on the
tablecloth so I try to keep everything
very informal and sort of feeling to
things I don’t like formal
in restaurants so sitting together one
or two tables is quite different from
your normal restaurant experience anyway
in meeting people that you wouldn’t
necessarily have met otherwise generally
everyone is very polite the reviewing on
the on the website when you when you
come to a review it says how was your
host and we have one guest who comes
quite quite often who takes that very
very literally and just puts well I I
love cooking and I love cooking for
others and I really do love having
people come around and to eat my food
and it’s yeah I don’t know how else to put it I just love doing it