TO coast Coast You won’t want to leave these wonderful waterside venues ADAM HANDLING’S UGLY BUTTERFLY WINS THE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AWARD AND CELEBRATES WITH A NEW COCKTAIL MENU Chef Adam Handling’s bar in St. Ives recently won the Sustainable Practices Award at the CLASS Bar Awards 2023, solidifying Ugly Butterfly as one of the UK’s leading sustainable bars. The prestigious award recognises the bar’s commitment to sustainable and zerowaste practices and its efforts to help others to do the same. Demonstrating their commitment to quality local produce and sustainable practices, Ugly Butterfly has recently launched a new cocktail menu that’s available now. Illustrated by bar manager, Connor Rainsford, and headed up by the newly promoted bar director of the Adam Handling Group, Josh Linfitt, the menu has been crafted with seasonal ingredients from local growers such as the Eden Project and Pasha’s Patch, bringing together local products, food waste and foraged ingredients to create unique and delicious concoctions. Each of the cocktails is beautifully presented, with 80% of the list available free from alcohol, alongside an entire page dedicated to alcohol-free options which the team have paired with mixers. The new cocktails include ‘Drop sails, knot nets’, which unlock the flavours from ordinarily discarded banana skins by turning them into a banana cordial. This is stirred down with an in-house made pandan liqueur, utilising pandan harvested from The Eden Project to provide flavours that would usually need to be imported but, growing in the microclimate at The Eden Project, can be described as ‘local’. The vodka-based ‘Modern Dandy’ is another new drink, which utilises waste popcorn syrup and spent coffee, and served with a Cornish tartan bow tie. The Modern Dandy is sprayed with tobacco air, to enhance the rich scent of the beverage. It’s not just the drinks themselves that reduce waste but even the vessels in which the drinks are served. For the Overhead cocktail, the team worked with talented local artist, Gemma Lessinger, and the incredible surfboard shaper, Brad Rochfort, to create a cup from waste surfboard material to protect glassware and ultimately reduce the energy required to recycle any broken glass. Josh Linfitt, the bar director for the Adam Handling Group, commented: “We’re over the moon to have won. Knowing all the hard work, effort and time that was put into this bar and its menus means it feels pretty amazing! Connor and the team have taken the mission of Sustainable, Local, and Luxury and run with it.” Delicious local and sustainable ingredients sourced from growers, farmers and fishermen across Cornwall have also been packed into the restaurant’s seven-course tasting menu with dishes including scallops, squash and chilli; asparagus, anchovies and nasturtium; and Guinea fowl, wild garlic and lemon thyme. There’s also a smaller five-course tasting menu available, with a new dish of Hogget, jersey royal and peas, as well as delicious new snacks including cauliflower and seaweed tart and mackerel tartare. The Food Fight dessert is currently on both menus, as seen in Adam’s recent appearance on BBC’s Great British Menu, which won him the title of ‘Champion of Champions 2023’. Every part of the Adam Handling Group is deeply rooted in sustainability and Ugly Butterfly is no exception, serving zero-waste dishes and drinks, following its core ethos, ‘Sustainable. Local. Luxury’. With breathtaking views of the Carbis Bay shoreline, the luxury St. Ives bar plays host to an ever-growing list of creative solutions to minimise food waste without compromising on quality, using a multitude of innovative techniques to preserve ingredients so that they can be used beyond their season, utilising anything unused in the kitchen in the bar, and vice versa. Adam Handling, chef and owner of the Adam Handling Restaurant Group, commented: ‘I’m honoured and proud of my Ugly Butterfly legends for winning this award. It’s something we’re all passionate about and I’m so excited to showcase the creativity and talent of Josh, Connor and the entire Ugly Butterfly team in their creation of an experience as close to zero waste as possible.’ The new five-course tasting menu is priced at £100 per person, with an optional wine pairing at £95 per person, or £135 per person for the premium wine pairing, and £1250 for opulence pairing (six people plus). The seven-course tasting menu is priced at £135 per person, with an added £120 per person for matching wine, £185 per person for matching premium wine, and £1550 for opulence pairing (six people plus). To book, visit www.uglybutterfly.co.uk The Ugly Butterfly is located at the Carbis Bay Estate where couples can get married on the beach. Twelve separate areas of the estate are licensed for ceremonies, including the wedding hut perched on the white sand; an outdoor spa garden pavilion; beautiful function suites located inside the main house, and the cosy coastal inn located on-site called the Gannet. From classic to quirky, small and intimate to grand and lavish, weddings are bespoke. To find out more and to book, visit www.carbisbayhotel.co.uk/weddings 15 THEMED VENUES
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