Yesterday we had an afternoon coffee with Dock Kitchen head chef Stevie Parle at MOST. Stevie has been getting up at 5am every morning to go the Milan food market (the second largest food market in Europe), to source the freshest ingredients for his exclusive pop-up restaurant, Spring Table, connected by Nokia. ‘It’s a very seasonal menu using all sorts of well-known Italian ingredients but cooking them in a British way.’ Stevie is no stranger to site-specific pop-ups and believes that it’s important for food to match the space, so he’s created an Anglo-Italian menu that is ‘spring-like and delicate’ to reflect both the season and the environment at MOST.

Spring Table consists of two restaurant spaces – the impressive Sala del Cenacolo, the original monk’s dining room where visitors dine underneath 16th-century frescoes, and the open-air tables within the cloisters. Cloister dining is furnished by exclusive Tom Dixon steel chairs made live on-site by giant machinists Trumpf.  Stevie is serving over 120 people at lunch sittings (both restaurants have been full since they opened), operating from a fairly basic kitchen. ‘It can be interesting when you have constraints on your cooking because you’re forced into thinking of different ways of doing things – it can make you quite creative.’ It’s certainly a challenge but one that Stevie admits was self-imposed, ‘we set ourselves the challenge because we like a challenge – we could have just stayed at home but where’s the fun in that?’

 

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Spring Table in partnership with Design Research Studio, Nokia, Dock Kitchen

Futher partners include: Carl Hansen & Son, Boffi, Dalle Vigne, Il Caffe Della Terra, Natoora, Soda Stream, Trumpf

Opening Times and availability:

Day: Spring Table
Tuesday 17th – Sunday 22nd April: 12noon – 6pm
Open daily for lunches and afternoon tea.
Drinks and snacks also served throughout the afternoon
Daily dishes at 17.50 Euros eat in, from 8 Euros take away
(2 course lunch also available)

Night: Spring Table connected by Nokia
Friday 20th & Saturday 21st April: 7.30pm – 10.30pm
4 courses sharing at €50/person (exclu. Wine & VAT)

For lunch and dinner reservations please call the booking and enquiries number +44 (0) 208 962 1610 or reception@tomdixon.net