The place is buzzing with foodies sipping craft ale from SMACK! Republic's onsite brewery, and munching on fragrant paella served from enormous pans, and speciality biltong, South Africa's famous dried meat.
For fear of portraying myself as some kind of international jetsetter, I should stress that the reality is more like playing an enormous pan-European game of Twister.
A waitress wrestles an enormous iron pan over to the table, clanks it down in front of you and flips on the gas.
We walked through a gate and across an expanse of asphalt to a pair of warmup courts, which from a distance looked like enormous baking pans filled with butterscotch-brownie batter.
Virtually unchanged since the First World War, the brewery is a marvel of weathered beams, steam-powered flywheels, hammered-copper kettles, and a koelschip (often anglicized to "coolship"), an enormous, copper-lined pan in the brewery's attic, used for chilling wort — unfermented beer.
This forced us to leave half of a beautifully prepared, enormous piece of pan-seared, gently peppered, rose-pink calf's liver in a brown butter and sage sauce.
The menu is enormous, and includes pan-seared foie gras with seared fig, grilled brioche and fresh oregano; jumbo ravioli of sweetbread, veal, foie gras and mixed mushrooms with white truffle oil; and loin of elk with celeryroot puree, red onion marmalade, asparagus and sun-dried cherry elk sauce.
All they had was an enormous cast-iron frying pan.
Above the enormous fireplace his copper pans of all possible sizes still hang in readiness; his paintings of brothers and friends (and of artichokes and tomatoes) are crowded on the walls; there is a barrel of vinegar, made from the dregs of favourite wines, that Olney insisted should be a staple of any kitchen, and a bookcase filled with editions of Olney's landmark books.
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