The Slow Table – Imad’s Syrian Kitchen
Join us for a very special Slow Table.
On Thursday 5th September, we’re teaming up with The Slow Cyclist at the winery to host a celebration of Syrian culture and cuisine. The wonderful Imad Alarnab of Imad’s Syrian Kitchen will be cooking up a fantastic feast to be accompanied by our award-winning wines. And there’s even a chance to stay over and (slow) cycle through the Hampshire downs with us the following day.
All profits will go to Action Syria UK, a charity that offers vital healthcare and education to Syria and beyond.
This is going to be a really special evening and we hope you’ll join us.
When we met Oli Broom, the founder of The Slow Cyclist back in September last year, we knew we wanted to work with him. This is a man who, in 2009, jumped on a bike and just kept going - eventually stopping 412 days later in Australia! A commitment not dissimilar to starting a wine business in England…
Beyond the respect for each others’ businesses, we found plenty of common ground - we are both focussed on creating products and experiences that we would enjoy ourselves always under-pinned by exceptional quality and original innovative process. It was clear that we have also similar ideals and visions for the world we inhabit.
Over the past 6 months, we have discussed and developed the evening and we’re delighted to have Imad join us working together on supporting Action Syria. His is an exceptional story of resilience and humility in the face of great adversity. His courage and tenacity is staggering but it is his passion for food, family and community that made for a perfect fit for our collaboration.
Now the plans are all laid and we’re ready to go - all we need is for you and a few friends to come and fill the seats for this our very first winery dinner…
The Slow Cyclist offers extraordinary cycling and walking adventures for the culturally curious. They believe that travel is worth taking time over; that a great holiday means getting under the skin of a place, meeting its people, indulging in its culture and understanding its history and customs.
Having welcomed their first guests to Transylvania in 2015, The Slow Cyclist now takes guests to little-known corners of nine countries across Europe and Africa.
Imad Alarnab is a Syrian chef, entrepreneur and refugee who ran three successful restaurants, several juice bars and cafes in Damascus.
In the war, Imad's businesses were destroyed and he was forced to flee the country in search of safety. Making his way from Lebanon through Europe, Imad shared his skills cooking for other refugees, up to 400 at a time.
Imad arrived in London in 2015 and eventually his family was able to join him. Putting aside his passion for food, Imad worked a number of jobs, including as a car salesman in his early days in London. With the help of some good friends, Imad burst onto the London restaurant scene four years ago with a series of charity events which became hugely popular. Supper clubs sold out within hours and hungry workers waited patiently in long queues for take-away lunches at pop-ups.
Imad’s Syrian Kitchen opened in Kingly Court in Soho, London in early 2020 and has gone from strength to strength, allowing Imad to express his full vision.
https://www.imadssyriankitchen.co.uk/
Action Syria partners with local organisations in Syria and neighbouring countries to provide the support and aid that vulnerable communities need most and give you a way to help. They make sure funding gets directly to the right people quickly and safely.
They believe in giving Syrians a hand up, not a handout
They are currently teaching 200 Syrian refugee children, providing vital healthcare to a community of 50,000 people in north-east Syria, and delivering prosthetics to amputees in north-west Syria.
