The Kennels November menu celebrates autumn’s generous pleasures

Goodwood’s The Kennels opens its November set menu with considered restraint. A broccoli mimosa salad leads the way, its verdant leaves dressed with golden egg yolk crumble, a gesture toward freshness that sets the emotional temperature for the meal to follow. It is the sort of opening course that clears the palate and the mind alike.

The centrepiece belongs to autumn in its deepest expression. Slow cooked beef short rib arrives on the plate with the kind of yielding tenderness that only prolonged, gentle heat can achieve. Glazed carrots and mounds of crisp, herbed crumble sit alongside, their bright geometry a counterpoint to the meat’s dark, concentrated richness. The sauce, deep and savoury, pools across the white porcelain with quiet authority.

To close, a cherry parfait brings the sequence to an elegant conclusion. Built in careful layers, it offers delicate sweetness without heaviness, its fruity character cutting through what came before and leaving the palate refreshed. The precision of its plating, with gold leaf detail and a crisp tuile, signals that this meal has been thoughtfully composed from start to finish.

The Kennels operates within Goodwood’s estate grounds near Chichester in West Sussex.

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