COME DINE WITH ME HEART WINNERS

Just a quick blog to shout about us winning the Come Dine with Heart competition.  

We went into this competition as the underdogs with us being the new kids on the block.  We were up again stiff competition, the first of our competitors was “The Marmion” who also are the new kids on the block but they have recently had a complete refurbishment a big launch party and some great advertising. The other restaurant that we were up against were last years winners and one of the top restaurants in Portsmouth, Koi Tapas. 

"We went into this competition as the underdogs with us being the new kids on the block."

We were selected to do desserts, quite ironic to win a competition on desserts when we don’t currently have desserts on our menu, so we choose to do a trio of British puddings. The Bread & Butter pudding had to be on the menu as did our favourite Sticky Toffee pudding and for the third dessert we chose to deconstruct an Eaton mess and produced an Eaton stack. We knew that it would be tricky winning a competition with desserts as everybody has different preferences and tastes with puddings, some people prefer a sweet sickly dessert but some prefer a lighter fruitier dessert so we covered all bases by doing a trio.. 

"..quite ironic to win a competition on desserts when we don’t currently have desserts on our menu.."

The desserts were very well received as was our little secret weapon.. Handmade truffles! We pre made a selection of three truffles, a chilli-chocolate rolled in crushed wasabi nuts, a chocolate-orange rolled in white chocolate and finally a plain-chocolate rolled in crushed roasted hazelnuts. We gave these out to the judges in miniature boxes and to clinch the deal we took our ingredients out to the table and made the truffles in front of them, they got to choose their own combinations of flavours but the chocolate orange was a firm favourite. 

We had a great time doing the competition and it was even more amazing to come out victorious.