Food Review: Delicious dishes that tell a story with Wander At Home
The pandemic is passing, though not for everyone. There’s a large cohort of medically vulnerable people for whom life has changed irrevocably.
It’s no longer safe to shop or mix with others while infections remain relatively high and deaths hover around the 300 mark.
While the story of Covid-19 has been pushed from our front pages by the war in Ukraine, we ought not to imagine it’s over for everyone. It’s far from that.
And yet the green shoots are emerging, not least in hospitality. Having endured a torrid time with on-off closures and with staff leaving in droves, gradually things are starting to normalise.
Restaurants are busy as they try to make sense of the issues – fewer chefs, front of house staff and spiralling prices for ingredients – in addition to fielding energy bills that have gone through the roof.
People want to eat out again, though it’s a stretch to afford that and hospitality remains on the front line.
The story of what happens when a restaurant faces a pandemic is a remarkable one, of course. It’s been chartered by Australian chef-restaurant-owner Alexis Noble, who owns Wander.
With an ever-changing menu designed to share, that adapts daily depending on the availability of produce, guests wander through the inspiration from the Wander team’s recent travels, food memories and delicious experiments.
A key element to Wander is the detail, from specially commissioned artwork by Lucia Fraser, to carefully curated Wander Spotify playlists – including favourite artists such as Massive Attack, Kanye West, PJ Harvey, The Internet.
Wander’s food is clever, detailed and bold; making it a quintessential casual fine-dining restaurant.
