The new restaurant - Dinner by heston at Mandarin Oriental (ex foilage) is soooooo difficult to book when it first opened earlier this year.
It is now a lot easier tho.. guess the hype is over.
It is one of the few fine dining restaurants that we have gone back within 1.5 months :p
We went once over the weekend and again (impulsively :p ) on a weekday with the set lunch offer :) - 28 for 3 course! very good value
I have always wanted to try out Heston's restaurants after watching him cook on TV e.g. Medieval banquet
The fat duck is just a bit pricey - we are still trying to decide when is a good time to go.. it has to be a really special occasion :p
I researched and knew exactly what I would order before going :p
Starter
The famous meat fruit :) It looks so real!!!
The soft chicken liver parfait coated with citrus jelly...
o.. I WANT ANOTHER ONE
The making of.... :)
Lamb Broth
- I had a taster of it.. it's nice but not extremely exciting
From the set lunch - Ragoo of Pig ears.
very rich and yum. I expects pig ears to be crunchy but they've cooked it for so long that it was veryy soft
Main course
Hereford Ribeye with a lump of bone marrow on top
It's a nice piece of meat.. nothing very exciting
It comes with triple cooked chips - very crunchy, red wine and mushroom ketchup
From set lunch - Bath Chap
Everything in this dish is very similar to the Blackfoot pork chop in the main menu - flavour/garnish wise
except this is made from cheaper cut - pork cheek
The pork cheek was so soft... bathing in the Robert sauce .. garnished with cabbage and amazing cracklings
Keith had the black foot pork chop which he thinks is the best piece of pork he has ever had
and I had the spiced pigeon - very soft, slightly under.. drizzled with spices
It is very nice but I would actually prefer slightly more spice
Dessert
Taffety tart
It is also served at Fatduck..
Apple compote and white chocolate cream sandwiched by very thin slices of pastry
with nuts/fennel seeds on top
Raspberry sorbet and rose petal on the size
It was beau-ti-ful! I didnt know where to start :p
very nice combination of flavour and texture :)
Chocolate bar with passionfruit jam and ginger icecream
Brown bread icecream
Neither of the dessert attracts me on the lunch menu and the waitor very kindly let me pick from the a la carte menu without supplement :)
I think the flavour is quite interesting... very subtle taste of yeast but the texture of the icecream could be smoother
with oat, pear cubes and a blob of caramel under a piece of shortbread - so it has to be nice :p
It is interesting.. but it's not something that i would scream for another one...
Post dessert
Earl gray with white chocolate ganache with caraway shortbread
very nice earl gray flavour
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