Internationally lauded restaurant L’Enclume is once again taking over Balmoral’s Bathers’ Pavilion from 16 July until 24 August 2025.
The residency marks the restaurant’s second visit to Australia, after a five week sell-out edition in 2023.
L’Enclume, located in Cartmel in Cumbria in Northern England, is recognised for its innovative farm-to-table dishes and sustainable practices. It is the only northern England restaurant to have received three Michellin stars. It also received the top rating of 99.50 on La Liste’s top 1000 restaurants of 2024, alongside six other restaurants.
Simon Rogan MBE, the celebrated mind and farm-to-table pioneer behind the restaurant, holds nine Michelin Stars across his group of restaurants – more than any other British restaurant group.
Rogan will lead the kitchen on the pass twice-a-day for every service over the entirety of the residency. He plans to bring 15 chefs and key front of house staff to work alongside Bathers’ Pavilion Executive Chef Aaron Ward on delivering the 14-course tasting menu.
The tasting menu includes snacks and petit fours for $590 per person, up from the $420 per person price tag in 2023. While the full degustation is still under wraps, the team has confirmed a variation of L’Enclume’s iconic Anvil dish will appear. The signature dish (which is also the namesake for the restaurant) is a caramel mousse with house-made miso, apple, and spruce.
“We want to take our L’Enclume expertise and create something entirely new – put it this way, if we had started L’Enclume in Sydney, this is what I would have created.”
Rogan points out that Bathers’ Pavilion remains the only place outside Cartmel to serve a L’Enclume menu, due to “the depth of trust and collaboration we have in our relationship with Jess, Tom and their exceptional team”.
“We are also excited to be working with Aaron Ward on this residency and hosting him in Cartmel for a full L’Enclume immersion this March. I’ve worked with chefs all around the world and Aaron is without a doubt a standout and a leading talent to come out of Australia in recent years,” says Rogan.
Rogan has labelled Australian produce as “some of the best in the world”, and expects to showcase produce like marron, snow crab, and “the best beef in the world”, alongside unique ingredients like quandong and wattle.
“We now have great relationships with many of the producers and growers and they are fully committed to working with us on specifically grown ingredients to ensure a truly traceable menu,” says Rogan.
Joining Rogan will be Oli Marlow, Executive Chef of Roganic Hong Kong, Aulis London and Phuket, and ION Harbour Malta; Valentin Mouillard, Group Head Sommelier; and Sam Ward, Managing Director of Simon Rogan Restaurants worldwide, alongside other key members of the UK team.
Mouillard, a recipient of Michelin’s Sommelier of the Year Worldwide accolade, will develop the comprehensive list of wines and pairings which will range from $230 to $1200, alongside a non-alcoholic option for $120 per person.
“Our 2023 residency with L’Enclume surpassed all expectations. Our ongoing relationship with the Rogan Group over the three years in the making of that residency and since then is something unique, integrated and value aligned. Our two teams from opposite sides of the world have worked so hard to come together seamlessly. We now have the advantage of a five-year relationship and we have every intention of upping the ante,” says Bathers’ Pavilion Co-Owner and Managing Director Jessica Shirvington.
“Through our partnership with L’Enclume we’re upskilling our team, we are experience driven, customer focused and most importantly, I believe we have tapped into the best way to make fine dining the show stopping event it is intended to be,” says Shirvington.
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