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The Oliiv

Supper Club

▮ Monday 18th June      ▮ Soho Works · 180 Strand

At Oliiv, exceptional EVOO is part of our daily lives. We sip it, savour it, cook with it and drizzle it – not to mention discuss it, whether that’s tasting notes or incredible health benefits.

We wanted to bring this to you, our customers, so we had an idea: an olive oil supper club.

A dinner dedicated to our favourite ingredient and a chance to taste and talk about EVOO directly with you, answering your questions.

We’re pleased to say our first Oliiv Supper Club, held at Soho Works, 180 Strand, was a huge success.

The menu, created by Pasta & Play, was a beautiful seasonal Italian feast that perfectly showcased our latest EVOO: a delicious, peppery Coratina from Puglia, Italy.

Guests enjoyed the likes of homemade, bubbly focaccia (obviously dipped in EVOO), a perfect chicken dish, and our personal favourite of the night: a hojicha mousse topped with EVOO and sprinkled with sea salt – a revelatory combination.

The spread — a seasonal Italian feast by Pasta & Play

As well as feasting, we answered many questions. With the brilliant BBC broadcaster Robert Elms on hosting duties, our founders Chris and Frankie spoke about setting up Oliiv, the health benefits of daily EVOO, the difference between industrially produced olive oil and a quality product, and even Chris’s adventures joining the olive harvest.

Of course, EVOO is an ingredient, which is why we wanted to pair ours with food, but we also wanted guests to taste it on its own, to appreciate the amazing nuances and differences in flavour.

So we brought along our Italian and Spanish EVOOs and asked olive oil sommelier Giulia Crouch, founder of The EVOO Edit, to guide guests through a proper tasting.

We loved seeing how engaged and interested everyone was, and how brilliant they were at describing the wonderful flavours and aromas of each oil. Tomato vine, yes!

What became clear throughout the evening is that Oliiv is evolving into something far beyond what’s inside the tin.

We are building a community of EVOO enthusiasts: people who are ready to reframe olive oil just as we are.

Real EVOO isn’t a bland, standardised commodity – it’s an ever-changing, seasonal food, packed with flavour and health benefits when it’s done right. That’s the EVOO we’ll bring to you, and there’s more.

Our Oliiv Ledger is essentially an EVOO club, and by joining you’ll gain access to more events like this – olive oil tastings, supper clubs, wellbeing discussions, harvest tours, limited edition oils, wellness retreats and much more.

This was only the beginning, and at Oliiv we can’t wait to do more. The olive oil revolution is here. Who’s along for the ride?