Hotel Café Royal opening London's first dessert restaurant

17-Feb-2016 - Last updated on 17-Feb-2016 at 11:52 GMT

London’s Hotel Café Royal is to launch an evening dessert restaurant on 3 March, with a menu created by executive pastry chef, Sarah Barber.

The restaurant will feature a selection of tasting menus all served with optional wine pairing from 6pm to 10.30pm daily.

The Sarah in Wonderland menu features five courses, starting with savouries, to prepare the palate, such as the Milky Way, with goat’s cheese, wild honey and beetroot snow and Chicken Foie with quince and brioche.

Guests will then taste the Alice in Wonderland inspired desserts: Queen of Hearts (raspberries, Champagne and roses); Mad Hatter (BFG, kirsch and cherries) and Eat Me, Drink Me (Snickers, chocolate malt shake).

A three-course menu titled Childhood Memories will offer nostalgic favourites such as Rhubarb & Custard and Jaffa Cakes.

The Pick n Mix menu will allow guests to make their selection of four dishes after savouries such as White Rabbit with Acapella cheese, artichokes and black truffle and Salmon Tart with silky avocado. Desserts include the Jaffa Cake; Eat Me, Drink Me and Queen of Hearts.

Wine flights will be available to accompany each menu including, sparkling Prosecco di Valdobbiadene with the Milky Way; Henriques y Henriques madeira with the Jaffa Cake and classic dessert wines such as Château Roumieu, Sauternes with the Eat Me, Drink Me.

The opening of the evening dessert restaurant will run alongside the launch of a new day food and drink menus in The Café.