A flamboyant dinner at Il Bottaccio

• Chilled watercress soup, served in an espresso cup
  
  
• Huge platters of fruits de mer - lobster, langoustines, mussels and crayfish, on a bed of samphire, served with a classic aioli
  
  
• Pistachio-stuffed lamb on a bed of braised endive
• Tian of glazed red onion, roast pepper and aubergine
  
  
• A handmade chocolate 'teardrop' filled with a coffee, praline and white chocolate semifreddo
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  With a raspberry and redcurrant and passion fruit sorbet
• Almond tuile biscuits