Award-winning chef and restaurateur, Adam Handling MBE, opened his Ugly Butterfly 2.0 restaurant just 2 months ago at The Headland in Newquay and is already raising the bar by adding a 9-course tasting menu* to the restaurant’s offering. This menu is all about a real experience of location and quality of ingredients and joins the restaurant’s ‘4×4’ restaurant menu, relaxed terrace menu and showstopping afternoon tea.
Priced at £170pp, the tasting menu has been designed to take guests on a theatrical and immersive journey of the South-West. It’s luxury dining at its most relaxed, reflecting the level of artistry seen at Handling’s Michelin-starred London restaurant, Frog, with striking coastal views as an added bonus.
The menu showcases produce from the South West of England, either foraged by the team or sourced from local fisherman, farmers and suppliers, ensuring that each dish is hyper-local and traceable. That is, aside from handcrafted chocolates from the Adam Handling Chocolate Shop – a worthy exception to the rule, that are served as a final course in the menu.
The menu’s imaginative dishes include highlights such as ‘Picnic on the beach’ (Adam’s signature snacks selection, with a seaside twist), locally caught Mackerel with radish and preserved truffles, the Collection’s much-loved ‘Bread, chicken butter’, and a rich ‘Venison ravioli, black garlic, Kern’, to name just a few. Cornish plums then take centre stage in a nostalgic ‘Victorian plum crumble’, before rounding off the experience by tucking into the delights of the Adam Handling Chocolate Shop.
The restaurant offers one of the most extensive wine lists in Cornwall and now, for an extra touch of luxury, guests can choose to trust the team’s choices and enhance their tasting menus with two new wine flights: ‘Sommelier’ (£100pp) or ‘Premium’ (£250).
“We’ve thrown everything into making this new tasting menu the best it can be and we wanted to give guests the option to choose something even more special for a celebratory meal. We’re striving for a Michelin star with this menu and Cornwall couldn’t be a more inspiring setting for that ambition. We’ve ramped up our foraging massively across the Collection in the last year and having this kind of seasonal Cornish produce right on our doorstep is just unbeatable.” says Chef Adam Handling MBE.
The restaurant will continue to offer its flexible ‘4×4’ offering, enabling guests to build their own journey through the South West’s larder with four dishes in each section, as well as its outdoor terrace menu and an Afternoon Tea menu celebrating the traditions of afternoon tea but with local Cornish produce.
Ugly Butterfly 2.0 is open daily from 12pm-11pm for lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, and will be closed on Sundays and Mondays from the last week of September.
Both of Chef Adam’s Cornish sites, Ugly Butterfly 2.0 and The Tartan Fox, offer a 20% discount on food and drinks for tables of up to four guests with a Pard Card.
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*Available for the whole table only
Image credits: Justin de Souza
