Slideshow: Côte De Boeuf’s Game of Thrones-inspired dinner party

On Wednesday and Thursday, Ossington haute butcher Côte De Boeuf and The Kitchen Bell hosted A Feast For Kings, a Game Of Thrones-inspired supper (or, as the menu put it, “degustation”). Union chef Teo Paul (along with chefs Mark Sullivan and Chris Mathias) served up a multi-course banquet fit for the fictional king of an imagined medieval fantasy realm from a popular book series and television program, which by the way premieres on HBO on April 6. Dishes were accompanied by locally sourced ciders, wines, beers and even some mead. Yes, mead! Just like in Norse and Germanic myths! (Or, sure, Game of Thrones.)

Over the clinking of antique glassware, guests spoiled Game of Thrones plot points for one another and indulged in the sort of nerdy conversation you’d expect at this sort of thing: why the Green Lantern movie sucked, when the superhero drama Heroes fell off, the difference between a “flagon” and a “tankard”—that kind of stuff. A gentleman even played violin, or “fiddle”!

If you couldn’t pony up the $175 ticket price, or couldn’t e-mail an RSVP fast enough when we wrote about the event a few weeks ago, here’s some dripping-wet fantasy-gastronomy food porn.

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The guest of honour, a wild boar's head. Perhaps the boar that killed King Robert Baratheon?

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Antique goblets, pewter tankards and copper candlesticks lined the harvest table. The table design was by The Kitchen Bell.

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Collector cards for each of the courses linked the dishes back to quotes and regions from the series.

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Lava Bread, a medieval seaweed bread with fresh-churned Gaspe salted cultured butter.

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The first course: seared beef heart drizzled with a ginger and sour-apple glaze. Khaleesi would be proud.

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Sautéed duck tongues with black pepper, wildflower honey and fermented cabbage.

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Sea bream tartar tossed in a honey truffle dressing and served atop a mini pancake with shaved radish and cucumbers.

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A chef prepares the salt crust for the trout.

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Braised and roasted whole rabbit atop a mead-and-turnip puree.

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The dish of the evening: pigeon and wild-boar-cheek suet pastry pie, bubbling in its own juices, with woodland mushrooms.

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Stewed beets, celery and apples. 

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A chef carves smoked, glazed and roasted suckling pig. 

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The inside of the Sussex Pond pudding cake.

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Goat-milk posset with elderberry syrup.

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Ginger-spiced apple cobbler was served with honey cinnamon ice cream.

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