My starter was also one of my most loved flavour combinations; mozzarella, tomatoes and basil. You can’t really go wrong although it was mighty hard to eat until the cutlery arrived.
For my main I opted for wild mushroom ragout with a deep fried duck egg. For a main course at £16 it was tiny. Yes wild mushrooms are expensive but bulk it out with something other than two wafer thin sheets of pasta. I did enjoy this; the mushrooms were in a wonderful sauce, the egg was oozing perfectly and the pasta was extremely delicate. The sauce that you can see under the pasta at the bottom was indescribable. I mean really indescribable. I spent the whole time wondering what it was meant to be and I concluded that it was either celeriac or Jerusalem artichoke neither of which had retained any flavour. This course proved even trickier to get from plate to mouth without any cutlery.
I cannot say no to salted caramel. The saltier the better and for dessert: Chocolate Marquise, Salted Caramel and Peanut Butter Parfait. I have to say that the salted caramel was the best I’ve ever had, it was perfect. The marquise was gooey and chocolatey and the parfait was good if a little too frozen. I thought there was going to be a comedy moment where I went to procure myself a sliver of parfait only for it to fly off the plate, ricochet of the window and hit me in the forehead. Fortunately, I was spared this embarrassment and consumed my dessert with gusto. Or, at least I tried to while I waited for the cutlery to turn up.
Sounds too much like Fawlty Towers for my liking…
This all looks great! Sounds fun 😉 x
hmmm….sounds just divine..;)
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Love the show so I would love to see some pictures of the surroundings. I am sorry that it was a little bit disappointing. Sometimes you wonder how some places get all that hype about it when there is nothing to it much.
Looks very yummy! It annoys me in a terrible way when the table doesn’t have the essential utensils, especially cutlery!, that is a major lack of professionalism.
Sounds disappointing and sloppy overall, but the dessert sounds great
Hmmm, too bad it was kind of a disappointment! I hate it when that happens after you’ve heard raving reviews. The dessert looks so delicious, though!
Sometimes its about exploring and then we kind of find out what can or did go wrong while dining out. Having said that, I would like to try the salted caramel and looks quite tempting to me.
haha I had to laugh at the first comment 😉
Sometimes restaurants start to believe in their own publicity a bit, might be a case of that.
What a shame, it’s always disappointing especially if you have been looking forward to a great meal.