Mr and Mrs Arnold love having guests but do not enjoy cooking, they like simple food served in their courtyard with wine from their cellars. Hussein served the starters by the pool and the main at the outdoor table before clearing all the dishes and leaving them to the desert.

Menu

Spring vegetable tarts

Florentine fish pie topped with parmesan crisps

Green beans, cherry tomato and pine nut salad

Woodland salad

Figs poached in marsala wine served with crème anglaise

Hussein charged $420 ($60 per head)