Durham fine dining restaurant Faru has launched a new £40 menu.
The Michelin-recommended restaurant, on Silver Street, is owned by Jake and Laura Siddle. It offers a signature 10-course tasting menu at £98, and a five-course tasting menu at £60.
The husband-and-wife team have also launched a three-course menu, with snacks, for just £40.
“As business owners we have to adapt to changes in the market,” said Jake. “We always wanted to bring a more refined dining experience to the city with our tasting menus. Although Faru is still going strong, and we are grateful to all the customers who have visited us in the last year and a half since our doors opened, we have to adapt to changes in the way people spend.
“We understand we are a restaurant that may be seen as a special treat or for an occasion. After Laura and I launched a set Sunday lunch menu, we had an influx of bookings, so we knew the time was right to offer a new, more affordable experience.”
Each dish at Faru is led by flavour, ingredients and seasons – and Jake says the new £40 offering will be no different.
Guests can expect snacks such as cheese beignet and chicken wing with puffed rice, ginger gel and fresh lime. Dishes on the menu include barbecued mackerel with cultured buttermilk sauce, dill oil, spinach, horseradish emulsion, pickled cucumbers and lime caviar; pork tenderloin, pork belly, miso glaze, celeriac fondant and celeriac puree topped with pancetta and walnut crumb, hen of the wood’s walnut gel, and pork jus with pickled mustard seeds. There is also a dark chocolate mousse featuring a cocoa nib base and passionfruit jelly inside, topped with malt namelaka, passionfruit jelly and a cocoa nib tuile with malted barley ice cream.
“We strive to produce exceptional, flavour-led dishes and the new set menu will be no different. It will still be the same quality that people have come to know us by, and we hope to see familiar faces as well as new ones trying out,” said Laura.
The new £40 menu will be available at Faru on Wednesday and Thursday evenings as well as lunchtimes on Saturdays. Wine pairing options are also available.
