From April 17, Bash Redford and Michael Lavery’s Forza Wine at the National Theatre is reopening its Forza Taps summer terrace.
Slightly larger than the offering from last year, at 80 seats instead of 60, the al fresco space opens again on the theatre's Weston Terrace, one floor below the restaurant itself.
As the name suggests, the terrace is largely skewed towards drinks — lots of natural wine, cold beers and cocktails, with prices expected around the £10 mark.
Alongside these is a menu of what they’re calling “picky bits” — grazing food to go with the booze. The menu will be built mostly around meats, cheeses, crisps and crisp-adjacent bits, pickles and olives. Drinkers can expect to snack on garlic toast, taralli — the Italian breadstick curled into the shape of a rudimentary snail — roasted ham, and Forza’s take on arrosticini, the kebab-like grilled mutton street food typically found in Abruzzo.
Forza’s riffs include bavette steak with lardo; pork with ’nduja sauce; and polenta with a Chianti-spiked tomato sauce, which is vegetarian friendly. The skewers will come with pink onions and crisps “for a salty, crunchy, tangy combo,” according to press material.
Open until September, the terrace is for walk-in diners only, and will offer table service.
Forza Taps will open on April 17 on the National Theatre’s Weston Terrace. For more information, visit forzawine.com
