[23/11/2024]

Launch for Pilot Magazine issue 5, in collaboration with Come Together.

Photos by Richie Barker.

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This menu was a personal interpretation of Pilot Magazine's 5th issue, Underbelly. For this, I was inspired by the theme to create dishes which veer from traditional aesthetics and instead lean into the ‘ugly sublime.’ As such, this menu offered a smorgasbord of slightly unappealing dishes whose atypical aesthetics are underwritten with unusual flavours

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Menu:

#1: Affirmation Stew

Unseasoned and uninspiring, this lumpy stew requires you to bring it to life with your affirmations. Expect to be served a flagrantly flavoursome toolkit of equipment to season your stew, both noitonally and physically. 

Lumpy vegetable stew, served w/ homemade flavour-filled stock cubes, ricepaper affirmations, edible pens, & a meaningful crouton crumb.

#2: Perfectly Imperfect

We expect everything we eat to be a feast for the eyes. Not so here; taking cues from Underbelly, this dish celebrates the ‘ugly sublime’ in all of its perfect imperfection, from oddly structural wonky veg to suspect plating.

Sliced root vegetables arranged into fanned curves, served on a bed of sweet seeded grains, & sauerkraut crumb, served w/ a creamy green dressing.

#3: Between the Sheets

Inspired by Tracey Emin’s eponymous artwork My Bed (1998), this dessert takes the spongecake to a whole new level. Expect effluence-inspired fondant bedsheets, blood-red conserve, edible litter, and a cheeky shot.

Moist spiced apple sponge cake w/ beetroot jam, salted fondant icing, & tahini créme, served w/ a shot & a surprise pressie.