The award-winning DUSK Restaurant in Brentwood, Essex, has introduced a 5-course vegan tasting menu of spectacular molecular gastronomy.

DUSK's Executive Head Chef Stephen Gomes made his name winning numerous accolades at Moksh restaurant in Cardiff, for visually stunning creations, with exquisite flavour fusions.

When not preparing free takeaway meals for thousands of frontline NHS staff, key workers, care home residents, plus vulnerable elderly people in Essex and north Kent, Gomes spent hours during lockdown in his laboratory kitchen, experimenting with new flavour combinations and techniques.

Combining scientific cooking methods with homegrown herbs and local produce, Gomes brings his trademark theatrical touch vegan cuisine.

The new £59 vegan tasting menu comprises:

Mixed spiced tapas with chickpeas, puff rice

Reduced kaffir lime and tomato broth, chilli puff

Wasabi, broccoli, truffle, charcoal macaroon, aubergine éclair

Biriyani, pomegranate raitha, burnt paratha, house salad, yoghurt blast

SPLASH – concoction of house desserts

Tea Flight

To accompany the 5-course vegan menu is an optional £20 speciality tea flight of Kombucha, a peachy CBD, a spicy Karakh Massala Tea, a Turkish Mint Tea and a bouquet of Blooming Tea to finish.

“Drinking tea was an integral part of my childhood growing up in Mumbai – my initial curiosity aroused by the hot brown water my grandmother was drinking,” commented Chef Gomes, who likes his chai well-brewed with a little milk and crushed ginger.

“There's a world of difference between a tea drinker and a connoisseur of tea.

“I've designed the menu to tell a story, and take the diner on a culinary journey, based on the inspirations from my grandma, my father Chef James, Roald Dahl and the science of spice,” said Stephen.

Designing his tea flight, Gomes developed a liking for a pale Kombucha,
served chilled as an amuse-bouche

TV Chef

Throughout his glittering career working in top restaurants across the globe Stephen Gomes has won numerous awards and achieved 2 AA Rosette.  His numerous TV appearances have included BBC2's Great British Menu.

Editors' Notes

A unique venue, DUSK provides a multi–purpose hospitality destination, offering diners a selection of world cuisines, with a choice of fine, casual and private dining experiences with live music and entertainment in the popular alfresco shisha and cigar lounge.

With three discrete dining areas each with its own menu, the restaurant, which caters for up to 400 customers, was transformed with an investment of almost £1million by restaurateurs Sharif Uddin and Shakil Islam in 2019.

Stephen Gomes is a Welsh executive chef and TV television personality, originally from Mumbai, he is renowned for his molecular gastronomy. He is a fourth-generation chef, His father, James Gomes, worked at India's first five-star beach hotel there, before working in, USA and UK, as an executive chef in hotels and restaurants. Stephen's grandfather served as a chef on board a battleship during World War II.  His great grandfather was Head Chef at the Eastern Shipping Company during the Raj.

His acclodes include two AA Rosettes for Moksh; Chef of the Year - Craft Guild of Chef's Awards, Wales's representative on BBC2's Great British Menu, Chef of the Year Award - UK Craft Guild of Chef's award; Goldstar Welsh Curry Chef of the Year - Welsh Curry Awards; Goldstar English Curry Chef of the Year - English Curry Awards ; 'Best UK Indian Chef' - Cobra Good Curry Guide, Outstanding Asian and Oriental Chef of the Year.  In 2019 DUSK won the LUXlife award for Best Fine Dining Shisha Experience.

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