Chef’s Table launches at Tallow, Kent

Chef Rob Taylor at the new Chef’s Table at Tallow in Southborough, Kent

Chef’s Table launches at Tallow, Kent

Rob and Donna Taylor, chef owners of Tallow in Southborough, Kent, have launched a new Chef’s Table in the upstairs dining space of the restaurant. The bespoke chef’s station seats eight guests for a seven-course tasting menu cooked by Rob Taylor, in addition to snacks and a bread course, with the further option of a tailored wine flight. Prices for the full tasting menu start at £100 per person.

The intimate dining experience will appeal to those who love the theatre of cooking and enjoy watching and talking about food as it’s cooked in front of them. Currently the Chef’s Table experience is only available on Friday and Saturday evenings, with one sitting at 7.30pm.

The December launch menu is full of wintery and festive ingredients such as Jerusalem artichokes, confit duck, gingerbread, chocolate and clementine mousse, spiced fruit, and blue cheese.

‘This is my kind of fine dining’ Grace Dent, The Guardiantheguardian.com/food/2022/may/06/tallow-tunbridge-wells-kent-grace-dent-restaurant-review

About Tallow

Tallow launched in November 2021 and is open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Sitting on a village green in Southborough, in the leafy surrounds of Tunbridge Wells, there are 26 covers downstairs in the main restaurant with space for a further eight upstairs at the Chef’s Table.

The menu showcases chef owner Rob’s unpretentious style where good ingredients are elevated with a sharp attention to detail, using modern techniques and bold flavours. The monthly changing menu has three starters, three main courses and three desserts. The menu is available as a la carte or as a tasting menu.

Notes to Editors

Prior to Tallow, Rob and Donna ran the award-winning Compasses Inn in Crundale, Kent, which had a Bib Gourmand and was in the top 10 ranking of the Top 50 Gastropubs for 8 years. After only a year of trading, Tallow has already achieved acclaim from national restaurant critics, visits from the Michelin Guide and was awarded 91st place in the National Restaurant Awards of the top 100 restaurants in the UK.

Website for reservationswww.tallowrestaurant.co.uk
Email info@tallowrestaurant.co.uk
Address 15a Church Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 0RX
Opening times Lunch and dinner Tuesday – Saturday

Private dining room at Tallow, Southborough

Private dining room at Tallow., Southborough, Kent (credit Saltwick Media)

Private dining room opens at Tallow, Kent

The new private dining room at Tallow, Rob and Donna Taylor’s new restaurant in Southborough, Kent, has opened. Seating up to ten guests, the dining room is in a private space upstairs in the townhouse style building. The bespoke 9 course tasting menu by chef Rob Taylor includes snacks and a bread course with the further option of a tailored wine flight. Prices for the full tasting menu start at £90 per person.

New dishes on the current menu include breaded partridge breast with katsu curry mayonnaise and pickled radish; pan fried fillet of cod with crispy potato, buttered leeks and roasted prawn bisque; warm pear and gingerbread crumble tart with cinnamon ice cream.

Tallow launched in November 2021 and is open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Sitting on a village green in Southborough, near Tunbridge Wells, there are 26 covers downstairs in the main restaurant with space for a further 10 upstairs in the private dining room.

The menu showcases chef owner Rob’s unpretentious style where good ingredients are elevated with a sharp attention to detail, using modern techniques and bold flavours. The monthly changing menu has three starters, three main courses and three desserts alongside an interesting and small edit of wines, spirits and cocktails. 

Tallow’s interior design is confidently pared-back with exposed brick, weathered wood and a log burning stove and the walls are painted in a rich liquorice shade.

About Rob and Donna Taylor

Rob and wife Donna Taylor met while both working in restaurants. Donna, a trained pastry chef, now runs front of house. Working for a long time together in Donna’s native Australia, the pair worked in Sydney and Brisbane in senior positions before returning to Kent to take over The Compasses Inn in Crundale, Kent. Running the acclaimed Bib Gourmand and Top 50 gastropub for 8 years, Rob and Donna achieved critical success from the hospitality industry, national restaurant critics and repeat diners, alike.

Rob comments, “We want Tallow to be a neighbourhood restaurant, the type of place we like to go ourselves. The menu will change all the time so there will always be a new menu for regular diners to try.”

“Wherever they go, I will follow” Grace Dent in The Guardian

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Notes to Editors:

Website for reservations www.tallowrestaurant.co.uk
Email info@tallowrestaurant.co.uk
Address 15a Church Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 0RX
Opening times Lunch and dinner Tuesday – Saturday

Tallow, the new restaurant from Rob and Donna Taylor

Rob and Donna Taylor at Tallow, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells (credit Saltwick Media)

Tallow

Tallow is the new restaurant from Rob and Donna Taylor opening on Friday 5 November. Reservations are open now.

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Open for lunch and dinner from Tuesday - Saturday, Tallow sits on a village green in Southborough, in the leafy surrounds of Tunbridge Wells and has 26 covers downstairs and a private dining space for 10, upstairs.

The menu showcases chef owner Rob’s unpretentious style where good ingredients are elevated with a sharp attention to detail, using modern techniques and bold flavours. Coming from East Kent, Rob Taylor brings with him a wealth of local suppliers who source from the Kent larder - game birds, mushrooms, oysters, cherries are all local. The menu offers three starters, three main courses and three desserts with a nine-course tasting menu available in the private dining room, alongside an interesting and small edit of wines. Sample dishes include treacle cured beef, glazed ox cheek, braised baby gem and English mustard clotted cream; Stour Valley quail with Kentish cherries and black pudding; crispy confit lamb, mint pesto and goats’ curd; roast loin of venison, celeriac puree, pickled girolles and potato terrine; roscoff onion and cheddar cheese tart and pickled walnut ketchup and for dessert, pressed apple mille feuille and caramelised mascarpone.

Tallow’s design is confidently pared-back providing a cocooning dining space with exposed brick, weathered wood and a log burning stove. The walls are painted a rich liquorice shade that make for an interior to feel grounded and comforted in.

Rob and wife Donna Taylor met while both working in restaurants. Donna, a trained pastry chef, now runs front of house. Working for a long time together in Donna’s native Australia, the pair worked in Sydney and Brisbane in senior positions before returning to Kent to take over The Compasses Inn in Crundale, Kent. Running the acclaimed Bib Gourmand and Top 50 gastropub for 8 years, Rob and Donna achieved critical success from the hospitality industry, national restaurant critics and repeat diners, alike.

Rob comments, “We want Tallow to be a neighbourhood restaurant, the type of place we like to go ourselves. The menu will change all the time so there will always be a new menu for regular diners to try.”

“Wherever they go, I will follow” Grace Dent in The Guardian

Notes to Editors:

Website for reservations www.tallowrestaurant.co.uk
Email info@tallowrestaurant.co.uk

Address 15a Church Road | Southborough | Nr Tunbridge Wells | Kent | TN4 0RX

Opening times Lunch and dinner Tuesday - Saturday