To celebrate our one year anniversary :) we went to Tom Aiken's restaurant at Chelsea.
After watching the Great British Menu for the Comic relief, we really wanted to try it out.
However, they've decided to stop serving that end of April :(
really wanted to try his winning Chicken starter dish and the hand dived scallops.
Oh well....
We opted for the 7 course tasting menu instead.
Canape - chicken skin profiteroles on the side, with pea and mint veloute served in an egg shell.
Beautifullll presentation :)
A collection of bread (which we managed to eat them all)
Freshly baked - warm and soft
which includes things like onion bacon bread (which tasted very cakey), Polenta bread, Milk bun (very moist)
served with bacon butter, mushroom butter and butter with seasalt
First course - smoked eel with watercress emulsion, compressed cucumber, smoked apple cubes and egg yolk crumbles
the eel is a little oversmoked - too overpowering, covering the other flavours
White asparagus and white asparagus icecream with grated frozen foie gras mousse on top.
Doesn't look like a lot of foie gras but you can definitely taste it in every bite.
Baked Scallop with yeast potato, osso buco, toasted bread soup
The flavour of the toasted bread soup was very Japanese I find.
I thought those were little pearl barley - but it's yeast potato apparently :p
HOUSEMADE RICOTTA green olive juice, honey jelly, pine nuts
This was the most interesting dish. very light
Thin slices of homemade ricotta with little jelly, cumbly cheese powder in between.
have never tasted anything like that.
can't remember what fish it was....
UDALE LAMB LOIN creamed polenta, cipollini onion, dandelion
love the little polenta croquette..
there's also a little "ravioli" stuffed with little small bits of minced lamb
PIGLET braised & roasted belly, baked aubergine, smoked apple
The pork belly was soft and it goes very well with the baked aubergine mousse.
PISTACHIO parfait, pistachio cake, pistachio praline
we didn't like the coconut dessert so we asked to have it changed.
layers of pistachio praline, cake and pafait is separated by a thin slice of white chocolate.
very light and yummm
such a delight :)
beautifully presented.
loveeee them all
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