Crab, mango, passion fruit…  Crab dressed with lemon aioli, chilli and fresh herbs. Mango mousse topped with a tart passion fruit jelly. Puffed wild rice granola, seaweed, iced radish, garden flowers and a squid ink tuille… The crab martini was our seafood course at our last Charlie’s Kitchen Chefstable

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