Back to the Jewellery Quarter and an evening at Kay Winwood‘s Gulp where she was serving an Italian 6 course meal in collaboration with the wine merchant 1485;which was showcasing Terre di Serrapetrona wines.
The meal started with a sharing plate of various antipasti which was delicious and then moved on to what I think was quite the best salad I have had this year (and I have had quite a lot of salads inflicted upon me in 2025). It was made up of pecorino, the sweet citrus of orange which really lifted the dish walnut plus some bitter leaves which worked wonderfully well with the orange’s sweetness, fig and the happy crunch of candied. This was a delicious and delightfully memorable dish.
Some excellent bread was served and a very tasty 15 hour-cooked beef ragu with not quite al dente tagliatelle and more pecorino adding to the pleasure of it all.
Next porchetta which was a little dry for me with, tenderstem broccoli (this particular green is ubiquitous) and truffle polenta and sweet, sharp cherries to really give the dish a pleasurable lift.
The dessert was lovely - warmed plums with nicely chewy almond ricciarelli (a biscuit originating in 14th century Sienna), lemon ricotta and pomegranate seeds. It was a fine, perfectly balanced dessert both in textures and degree of sweetness. I loved the little spoon provided to eat it with - it was a good example of the charming and original quirkiness of dining out at one of Gulp’s occasional dinners.
This was a highly enjoyable evening in Gulp’s unique setting which ignites a companionable chattiness among the dozen diners, usually strangers to each other prior to the meal, sitting around the prettily laid table. The wine pairings were excellent and a good time was had by all.
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| Kay Winwood |
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| Peter Bridgwater of 1485 Wines |
27 September 2025.
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