cook club with Riya Patel
Welcome to cook club.
A hundred food businesses cook out of this kitchen every day. Twice a month, we open the doors and you step inside. You cook at shared tables alongside the person who lives and breathes the cuisine, then everyone sits down together to eat. Drinks flow. Music plays. The table talks.
On Saturday 10th October, we hand the pass to Riya Patel.
On the menu, a true Indian feast. The kind you'd only usually get invited round to aunty's house for.
About Riya
Born into a British Indian family, Riya grew up on cooking that pulled from everywhere her relatives have lived. Obsessed with paneer, she started hosting supper clubs built around her own homemade dishes. Seeing others love them as much as she does, she went on to found All The Aunties, the brand on a mission to get good, fresh paneer into people's everyday cooking. She's now about to launch her own cookbook, sharing the family recipes that started it all.
Tonight, you cook with her.
The night
You enter the kitchen to the sounds of old school Bollywood. With a stiff cardamom spiced negroni (or non-alcoholic version) in hand, Riya talks you through tonight's menu. You get acquainted with the spices you'll be using, and the paneer that started it all.
Aprons on, you split into groups to get ahead on dessert, a silky cardamom chocolate mousse, before it goes into the fridge to set.
With dessert prepped, it’s time to get going with starters. A classic chilli paneer, naturally, made together and put out on the table for everyone to pick at as you keep cooking. Riya talks about the aunties and grandmothers the business is named for, and what home has tasted like across the places her family has lived.
Then it's onto mains, paneer pasanda and green bean poriyal, cooked alongside Riya. The naan is warmed and the rice gets fluffed before you all sit down to eat. You help yourself to drinks at the honesty bar, before digging into the spread you've just been a part of making.
As you finish your last mouthful of mains, the mousse you made earlier comes back out, set and ready for its garnishes of flaky salt, rose petals and pistachio butter. Conversation continues, more stories are shared, and when the night finally comes to a close, you leave the same way you would any aunty's: well fed and reluctant to leave.
What's included
Welcome drink: a cardamom spiced negroni, or a non-alcoholic alternative
Dinner: a three-course Indian feast
A recipe card to take home
Good to know
24 spots
Please arrive at 5:15pm to sign in
Ages 18+
Self-serve drinks honesty bar
Tell us about any allergies when you buy your ticket
Allergens
Mission Kitchen is a shared commercial kitchen. A hundred food businesses cook here every day and all 14 named allergens are handled on site, so we can't guarantee any dish is free from traces of them.