Once the Christmas festivities have been and gone and the new year has begun, it is customary to make pledges for a healthier and more prudent lifestyle. A noble endeavour, but often accompanied by a lack of balance, a sense of ennui, and an inevitable straying from the too strict and stringent path we set ourselves.

We have just the antidote.

On Friday evenings throughout January and February the Garden Museum Café will be running a series of dinners celebrating the regional cooking of France, to restore strength and sooth the soul through the cold and troublesome weeks of Winter.

Our head chef Myles will be taking us on a tour of some of his favourite French provinces, show casing some of the authentic cuisine and traditional dishes that have inspired his cooking over the years.

Each week the menu will be prix fixe – three courses for £29.

For the third edition of our Tour de France series, we’re heading to the North Easterly regions of Alsace-Lorraine on the German border, two picturesque provinces that share great culinary traditions with their neighbour.

The landscape is hilly and forested and the food is suitably hearty, the week’s prix fixe menu will showcase it at its finest, with Coq au Riesling taking centre stage.

There’s a long and prestigious history of wine making in the area, we’ll be focusing on a couple of low intervention producers who are working wonders with the area’s signature grape varieties, making wines of great freshness and complexity.