Wing in to Boisdale, London’s greatest Highland haunt, to celebrate the Glorious Twelfth and the start of the grouse season. The Scottish restaurant group will offer diners Roast Grouse on Crouton, Game Chips, Watercress, Bread Sauce & Game Jus accompanied by a glass of Château Rahoul 2005 for just £35 from 18th August until the end of October.
The game dish including a glass of outstanding Bordeaux wine from Champagnes & Châteaux, an independent wine shipper owned by the famous champagne family of Alain Thiénot, priced at just £35 ensures diners will make a significant saving when enjoying grouse at Boisdale; the cost independent of offer is £51.40.
Grouse, an emotive symbol of Scotland, has enjoyed sympathetic management for years which allowed its economic importance to be fully recognised and, at the same time encouraged the welfare of other Mooreland bird species such as pipit, ring ouzel and wheatear which are showing such a sad decline today.
Scotland boasts one of the world’s most sought after sporting experiences in driven grouse shooting; it is unlike any other form of sporting shooting and provides a fusion of breathtakingly beautiful natural surroundings with the thrill of fast-moving wild birds which vary their speed and direction with the contours of the hill beneath them.
Ranald Macdonald, proprietor and founder of Boisdale, is fully embracing the season with a return to his ancestral roots by taking on the ‘Macnab’ challenge this year. The challenge requires a salmon, a stag, and a brace of grouse all to be taken on the same day, but Mr. Macdonald remains undaunted: “The philosophy of Boisdale is distinctly Hebridean, so the Macnab challenge is a great way to embrace Scottish tradition and see in the season. I’m thrilled to be able to serve customers traditional grouse for such a superb price.”