Anyone familiar with the gastronomic antics of Sam Bompas and Harry Parr will know the only thing to expect of one of their events is the unexpected – the duo have flooded buildings with breathable gin and tonic, made jelly glow in the dark.
Pair this freewheeling approach to food with some seriously potent Hendrick’s cocktails and you get a dinner party unlike any other.
As a lampshade crossed her stripy legs and played the musical saw, diners were made to “eat crow” (an idiom meaning to acknowledge a mistake, thankfully interpreted here as pigeon) and served slices of “Umble Pie” accompanied, rather unsettlingly, by a reading from Sweeney Todd.
Pudding was a vaguely suggestive jelly in the shape of one of Brighton Royal Pavilion’s minarets.
Drinks were similarly inventive; Red Morning Chorus mixed tea, gin and Crème de Myrtille, Lambic To The Slaughter, Kriek beer, malt extract and morello cherry.
By the end, we were merrily pinching rose-flavoured snuff from a horn and talking all manner of nonsense.
Sublime and, indeed, absurd.
* 7pm, £100. Call 01273 917272
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