Four years on from London’s own games, Rio is ready to host the 2016 Olympics. One of the successes of the London Games is the area’s East Village, where modern European restaurant Darkhorse resides. Bringing the Olympic spirit back to east London this summer, Darkhorse will offer a Brazilian-inspired menu of food and cocktails to celebrate the Rio Olympics. Beginning with a live screening of the opening ceremony on Friday 5th August, guests will be able to enjoy all the action alongside a set menu brimming with Brazilian-Portuguese soul.
The menu begins with a starter of baked crusted Bacalhau with onions, potatoes and sweet pepper dressing, served with a Cachaça, watermelon & passion fruit cocktail. A main of roast hake with pancetta, black beans, and chorizo feijoada is paired with a glass of Alianca Dao, while dessert is a lemon custard puff pastry tart served with a cashew & coconut batida.
The menu will be available for the duration of the Olympics, 5th–21st August. The opening and closing ceremonies will be screened live on big screen in the restaurant along with the best events throughout the games such as the men’s 100m final.
Darkhorse was founded by Lee Glen and Ian Goodman in the former athlete’s village at the end of 2015, as part of a new wave of independent restaurants that are revitalising the area. The restaurant offers a modern European menu and central to this, is their Bertha charcoal-fired oven, in which all meats and fish are cooked.
The menu features dishes such as onglet steak with bone marrow, roast hake with borlotti beans and salsa verde, warm English asparagus with girolles and charcoal lamb with merguez. A list of both classic and signature cocktails designed by Ian are also on offer, together with an extensive European wine list.