At Helm, Chef Josh Boutwood isn’t just serving food, he’s building worlds. With each new menu, Boutwood ventures beyond traditional fine dining to create immersive culinary universes where every course is its own narrative. His last tasting menu drew from the mythos of Star Wars while his current one takes inspiration from the enchanted world of Harry Potter. At first, these may seem like mere nods to pop culture, but Boutwood’s fascination with world-building goes deeper. He doesn’t simply reference these iconic sagas, he interprets them through a gastronomic lens. For Boutwood, food is a medium akin to ink or film, capable of transporting diners across space and time, and inviting them to become protagonists in their own sensory adventure. Like the great storytellers, his process is one of constructing a universe: grounded in myth and layered with meaning. His menus follow a hero’s journey replete with an arc of..
