The Ventix18+
Supper

Short menu, cooked in the interval

Four savoury things, two sweet, a list of juices, teas and coffee, and a kitchen that shuts at midnight.

In the kitchen

Everything within twenty minutes

Beef and citrus plated for the interval rush

The interval is the constraint that shaped this menu. If a dish cannot leave the pass inside twenty minutes it does not get written up, however good it might be.

That rules out most of what a restaurant would do and leaves the grill, the rice pans and a pastry section that works ahead.

Beef is dry-aged four weeks and cut thick; rice is cooked to order in small pans; dessert is citrus in some form nine months of the year.

Grill
One beef cut a week, plus a vegetable dish worth ordering on its own.
Rice
Three ways, one meat-free, all finished at the pass.
Sweet
Citrus tart, or whatever the pastry apprentice has been practising.
The counter

What is on the list and why

  1. Chilled tea and apple juice, because they suit a hot room.
  2. Cherry juice and dark-roasted coffee for the winter ladder nights.
  3. Lemonade at the coffee counter.
  4. House syrups for soda water.
  5. Hot chocolate and filter coffee on the same list, with no fuss about it.