The UK’s most prominent game chef, Mike Robinson became nationally known after appearing on television’s Saturday Kitchen and Great Food Live and presenting ITV’s Countrywise Kitchen. He is internationally recognised for leading the revival of game cookery and in 2008 Mike co-founded The Harwood Arms in Fulham, the only pub in London to hold a Michelin Star, an accolade held since 2009. His restaurant Pot Kiln was voted number 6 in The Sunday Times’s ‘Top 15 Country Pubs and Restaurants’ in 2016.

The Grange Festival has invited The Wild Fork, which Mike Robinson co-founded in 2005, to create quintessentially British country food and deliver something distinctive for The Grange Festival audiences in their first season and beyond. The Wild Food Feast Menu, created exclusively for The Grange Festival, will be served on private balconies overlooking the estate and include rare breed beef wellington or nettle crusted Berkshire venison haunch. Downstairs in the Dining Room, guests will be treated to an indulgent three-course menu, featuring hand-carved Iberico ham, grilled sea bream, herb gnocchi or wild venison from Hampshire Downs, and much more. Alternatively, it will possible to order a luxury hamper, which will be ready and waiting for you on the day. Audiences will be able to enjoy their picnic in one of the new Pavilions with tables and chairs, or in the grounds overlooking the lake.

A 100-minute interval during the opera performances will allow audiences to take in the surroundings of the new park, redesigned by beloved broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh and landscaped architect Kim Wilkie, and plenty of time to enjoy Mike Robinson’s Wild Food Feast Menu and Champagne Gosset.