A Christmas Feast of 7 Fishes

Pop-up with Heart: Food waste campaigner Tom Hunt Presents A Christmas Feast of 7 Fishes

Tom Hunt (executive chef of Poco) has been cooking up Christmas feasts at Brunel Museum for the last three years and he’s back with his team for a fourth year with an all-singing, all-dancing menu, full of delicacies, vegetarian and from the sea.

He will be working closely with social enterprise SoleShare and other fish wholesalers choosing fish for their sustainable credentials, quality and sushi grade freshness. Each day the team will create freshly cooked side dishes with delicious organic fruit and vegetables that would have otherwise been wasted because of the food industries strict grading standards. This year the chosen charity to donate profits to will be Action Against Hunger.

Early birds will be treated with a fire in the herb garden* and mulled wine bar before heading on a guided tour into the Grand Entrance Hall of Brunel’s Tunnel, one of the great wonders of the Victorian age and the first tunnel under a river anywhere in the world. The feast will be served on sharing platters and tables on both floors of the museum in what used to be Brunel’s engine room. This is a Pop-up with a difference.

*If the weather deems otherwise cocktails will be had inside the Museum.

Eco-chef Tom Hunt
“At Christmas we create a huge amount of unnecessary food surplus. With many people hungry over this festive time I wanted to create an alternative Christmas meal that utilises food that would have otherwise been thrown away, and at the same time raise money for those people that really need it most.”