A seven-course chocolate tasting menu? Including fish? - Features, Food & Drink - The Independent

Located in the fashionable streets of north London, Almeida restaurant and bar is exactly the sort of establishment you'd expect to offer trendy one-off menus and exciting, fresh ingredients. Squab pigeon... yes. Smoked eel and oysters... almost certainly. Butternut squash velouté... a must. Fine chocolate in every course... really?

To mark National Chocolate Week, which begins on Monday, Almeida's head chef Alan Jones and award-winning chocolatier Paul A Young are doing just that by joining forces to create an indulgent seven-course chocolate-tasting menu.

For one week only, diners will be able to feast on butternut squash velouté with a Venezuelan chocolate and cumin stirrer, smoked eel and oyster in chocolate vinaigrette and brill with a hazelnut and coco crust. The £60 meal continues with roast pigeon and candied carrots and an Amedei Toscano black chocolate jus. Dessert of poached figs with white, milk and dark chocolate comes after a cheese-and-(yes)-chocolate course and a kitsch pre-dessert of chocolate ice cream, almonds, fudge, cacao nibs, hundreds and thousands and marshmallows.