The Guest Series with Pam Yung

For the next instalment of The Guest Series, we’re flying in Pam Yung from Brooklyn, NYC. She’ll be cooking with James and team on Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th August 2017.

Pam’s pastry career began rather by chance. While working as a designer in Detroit, she shot off an email asking to be an apprentice at a soon-to-be-opened dessert bar in NYC. Three months later, under the discriminating tutelage of Will Goldfarb, she started at Room4Dessert. This non-traditional education set the tone of inquiry and creativity that still remains a constant in her approach.

A year stint in Europe through the kitchens at El Celler de Can Roca, In De Wulf and La Chassagnette made her fall in love with the purity and beauty inherent in nature and learned how unparalleled raw product dictates cooking. Upon returning stateside, she built and ran the pastry programs at NYC pizza institution Roberta’s and Ignacio Mattos’ much lauded ISA, where she discovered her passion for bread-baking and developed her own voice as a pastry chef.

In 2014 she opened her first restaurant, Semilla, in Brooklyn, NYC. Here, the creative thrust was motivated by the desire to have a more sustainable restaurant: minimising waste, buying from like-minded small producers and promoting a vegetable forward approach to eating. It meant working from scratch as much as possible: freshly milled grains for bread-baking, homemade dairy cultures, preserves and ferments.

In November 2016, Pam parted ways with her partner and the restaurant to further explore baking around the world and we’re beyond excited to have Pam joining us for her first ever dinners in the UK. Pam is coming in early so she can check out some of the farms with James to buy produce. She will be cooking a mix of sweet-savoury dishes, accompanied by some killer breads which will be made in our wood-fired oven.

The Guest Series with Pam Yung - Wednesday 9th & Thursday 10th August, 18.30-21.30

Tickets are £59 for a set menu, excluding drinks and service.

MasterCard holders can book tickets from Monday 24th July 16.00 on Priceless London. Tickets are then on wide release from Friday 28th July at 16.00 on lyleslondon.com