City
leaders enjoyed tasters and cocktails overlooking the sea at the launch of the
spring food and cocktail menu in the freshly decorated Waterhouse Bar &
Terrace at the Hilton Brighton Metropole recently.
New
executive chef, Peter Buckingham, has joined forces with Waterhouse bar manager
Nick Heasman to create 'perfect pairings', bringing together some of the most
delicious new 'grazing plates' and sumptuous layered afternoon tea menus with
taste tingling cocktails that bring out the best of the local flavours.
Said
Howard Lewis, General Manager, Hilton Brighton Metropole: “We have a superb new
team and we aim to offer tea by the sea in style, with an exciting menu and
beautiful surroundings, including new heaters and parasols to enjoy our unique
sea view terrace.
“The
Waterhouse Bar & Terrace offers just the place for business people, ladies
who lunch and families to enjoy the most fashionable afternoon meal, sliding
gently into cocktail hour and watching the sun go down on Brighton’s seafront.”
The
new menu brings some of the best local ingredients to the table, including
Hailsham lamb from Ashdown Farm in East Sussex, mackerel caught off the Hove
coast, and even Brighton Rock crushed to enhance a spectacular and unique
crunchy cheese cake.
Cocktails
combine classics with specially-created drinks carefully matched with the food,
offering flavours that cut through with a tart but delightful white wine and
pineapple Brighton Rocks cocktail, the Sussex Mule providing a limey alter-ego
for the local lamb gourmet burger and local gin based Blackdown Bramble setting
off the mackerel and capers to perfection.
The
new ‘Tea by the Sea Seaside Delights’ menu offers a fun twist on the Brighton
seaside location, with a range of sumptuous cakes to choose from, along with
quirky candy floss cupcakes, baby toffee apples and small jam doughnuts, all hand
made in the hotel’s own kitchens. The sandwich selection also includes the best
of Sussex ingredients, with Shoreham crab, cheese made in local dairies and
delicious local ham.
To
wash it down, guests can choose from a wide selection of teas and coffees or
enjoy the new ‘Champagne Tea by the Sea’ cocktail, blending bubbles with Earl
Grey infused Sussex Gin, or ‘Hedgerow Fizz’, combining a light sparkling white
wine with locally sourced elderflower cordial with a frozen fruit garnish.
Children
are also well catered for with the ‘Mad Hatter Afternoon Tea’ offering a three
tier loaded stand of their very own, with ham, marmite and jam sandwiches and
strawberry jam tarts topped with candy floss, mini Brighton rock and vanilla or
milk froth whisked up at the bar.
Hilton
Brighton Metropole is donating £1 for every afternoon tea sold to local
charities Chestnut Tree House, Rockinghorse and Whitehawk Inn.
Howard
Lewis and his team aim to make the Waterhouse Bar & Terrace, which is open
daily, a destination which offers the very best in hospitality and style.
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