It has already been said that the CANK looks like a “crashed spaceship” and “a bit like a diamond due to its shape”. The striking concrete block in Karl-Marx-Straße, once home to a C&A, has been temporarily transformed into an unusual event space. The Scholz & Friends Christmas party 2024 took place in this rather rough ambience, which hovers between past and future with its charm.
For the 250 guests, we designed a family-style Christmas dinner that focused on festivity and community. We started with finger food - a journey through surprising flavors: shortcrust tartelettes with plucked barbary duck, refined with plum emulsion and olive oil pearls; tartare of roasted wild mushrooms on mushroom emulsion, garnished with olive oil caviar and fleur de sel; crunchy broccoli sprouts with parsley beurre blanc and malt crumble. Everything was presented on basalt plates in flying service and brought to the guests.
As with a festive meal at home, the dishes were then placed on the table in bowls, tureens and on platters at the family style dinner - perfect for serving yourself. We served romaine lettuce with braised butternut squash, amaranth and seed oil dressing as well as a warm pumpkin soup, refined with coconut spuma, croutons and pumpkin seeds.
The main course was a tribute to the Christmas season: leg of Christmas duck, accompanied by cassis red cabbage, kale, golden brown dumplings with nut butter crunch and an intense duck jus. The vegan alternative: roasted portobello mushroom with marinated black cabbage, oxidized walnuts and truffle mash - just as festive as the classic version.
The finale: a vegan “snowball” made from coconut mousse, combined with pickled cinnamon plums and crispy coconut macaroon crumbles.
Our thanks go to Lilli Sauer, Yasmina Rünzi and Nikola Schütze for their excellent collaboration and this special evening, which delighted the guests and perfectly captured the festive spirit of the moment.
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