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🙂 4/5 - A non-foodie visits a very foodie restaurant
By 👻 @Coomber, 03/19/2023 3:00 am
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I'm sure I'm not the only person who doesn't consider themselves a "foodie" but has always wanted to try the sort of place where you can imagine Heston Blumenthal performing experiments in the kitchen. This is very much a review for similar-minded people. It's a lovely little setting in a quiet Kensington backstreet. So far, so normal. But from then on it's something altogether different. The menu is bonkers. I don't mean by that, that the food is bizarre. I literally mean the medium used to allow you to choose your food is bonkers. Instead of a typical menu, you're presented with a plastic board with circular holes in it, which in turn are filled with plastic circular pieces. You then have to remove the circles to reveal the options written underneath, then remember where you saw food you liked and remove the correct corresponding circle before handing the "menu" back to the waitress. It's like a memory test mixed with the sort of motor skills test you'd have to undergo if you'd just come out of a prolonged coma. I ordered the pigeon, which was actually a starter but they were happy to do it as a main. I had a small fish course to start. But before then, the amuse bouches! (I assume that's the correct plural of amuse bouche. Anyway, there were three of them.) The best was the steak tartare and caviar taco. There was also a chicken broth, which, to my uncultured philistine pallet seemed to be similar to a thin chicken gravy (not a fan). There was another, which I shan't try to describe but was a fish dish, which I enjoyed. The fish was a small but chunky, meaty, starter, but not particularly hot. Excellent flavours though. Then the main. I seem to recall (it's weeks since I went there) that we were offered help correctly pairing our wines with our food but I saw an Aussie red that would go with the pigeon and had opted for that. It was not cheap...though compared to many other options on the menu, it was a bargain. The pigeon was beautifully presented, with its accompaniment brought over separately. I wasn't really sure how to react when the waitress came over and announced "Your chip, sir." Never in my life have I heard the *singular* word for chips used to present a whole portion of food. With the gravitas of a royal coronation, a wooden board with - as I had been told - my single chip upon it, was laid before me. It was, to be fair, a large chip. Square, and unlike any chip I had ever seen before, covered in (if I remember correctly), truffle salt. And it was delicious. And just the right amount of food. So there you have it. A pretty expensive but unique night out. Was the food good? Yes. Did it blow me away? Not really. Is that because I'm a caveman, too gastronomically illiterate to enjoy fine dining? Almost certainly. If fine dining is your cup of tea though, I recommend it.
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