Joshua and Victoria Overington – who as earlier than will oversee the kitchen and entrance of home respectively – count on to launch Mýse (pronounced ‘meez’) in June inside a newly-renovated nineteenth century inn.
An everyday on Restaurant’s listing of the highest 100 locations to eat within the UK, Le Cochon Aveugle introduced its closure late final yr after eight years buying and selling with the pair saying on the time they wished to ‘begin a contemporary journey’.
The Overington’s extra informal York restaurant Cave du Cochon is known to have closed across the identical time.
A chic spin on conventional Yorkshire cooking
The menu at Mýse – which takes its identify from an Anglo-Saxon phrase for ‘consuming on the desk’ – will ‘shine a light-weight on the best high quality produce within the native space and past’ with Josh planning to place an ‘elegant spin’ on conventional Yorkshire cooking.
Dishes on the tasting menu will embody a light-weight broth of Spring herbs and mussel; uncooked razor clam, compelled Yorkshire rhubarb umeboshi and elderflower; duck liver and walnut pie; hand-dived Orkney scallop baked in its shell with sea urchin; Swaledale lamb saddle and stomach with farm trimmings and an anchovy garum sauce; and goat’s milk ice cream with caramelised honey, raspberry juice and cicely.
The night tasting menu will value £110, with shorter lunch menus obtainable on Saturdays and Sundays at £80. The wine pairing will value an extra £85 and a non-alcoholic pairing will value £65, and at lunchtime, £60 and £45 respectively.
Wines that respect the land from which they’re grown
The wine listing at Mýse might be curated by Keeling Andrew & Co, the wine importers from the crew behind Noble Rot, working intently with Victoria to create an intensive listing of wines that respect the land from which they’re grown.
Josh and Victoria’s favorite Alsatian Rieslings will make an look in addition to bottles from the Savoie and Jura areas, a nod to the couple’s time dwelling in France, the place they met.
English glowing wine, Yorkshire-brewed beer and native gin might be available in addition to non-alcoholic drinks: shrubs utilizing native seasonal fruits might be made in-house.
“Mýse is a chance for us to lastly realise our restaurant dream. We liked our time at Le Cochon Aveugle and suppose again on it fondly, however outgrew the house,” says Josh.
“That is our probability to create one thing extra formidable and a mirrored image on our unimaginable Yorkshire environment. I grew up right here and it has been residence to Victoria for ten years, so we wished to create a welcoming, homely spot, every dish a nod to dinners that my Yorkshire grandmother would cook dinner for me, however elevated and refined.”