London (UK)
15. December 2014: Restaurant Blue Boar
Great place for a quick business lunch with good quality food: Restaurant Blue Boar. I started with “home smoked cornish mackerel, apple, celeriac, baby beets (ashwood smoked)” (GBP 9.00) which is prepared in the “Bradley Smoker” (the smoker is our toy, we use a variety of different chips to bring delicate smoke and flavour to […]
14. December 2014: Restaurant Nobu Old Park Lane
Nobu is a place I wanted to go to for quite a while already but somehow never managed to do so – finally it worked out! In the end I was a bit disappointed to be honest but let’s start at the beginning. I was a bit early (or rather my company was a bit […]
14. December 2014: Restaurant Bar Estrela
Although the Bar Estrela is a typical Portuguese restaurant, I must admit that I have had better cod before. The “sun dried cod grilled with roast potatoes in skins” (GBP 15.00) was pretty average. The fish was too dry for my personal taste (despite it being sun dried) and just lacked aroma. The vegetables were […]
14. December 2014: Restaurant Le Vieux Comptoir
The Restaurant Le Vieux Comptoir is a French place to the core which obviously made me order a completely French dish: “foie gras poêlé with apples and shallots” (GBP 13.00). The combination of shallots, apples and foie gras is a pleasant one but I have definitely had better foie gras before. The place is absolutely […]
14. December 2014: The Nordic Bakery
When talking about a typical British breakfast I was not exactly expecting “Rye Porridge with honey” (GBP 2.50) and although I am definitely not a big fan of porridge per se, it was actually quite fine with a large portion of honey. The place is simple as you have to walk to the counter to […]
13. December 2014: Restaurant The Five Fields
Once the decision had been taken what to order there are two small surprises from the kitchen to kick off the dinner. A “Dorset crab tartlet with golden baby beetroot and lemon puree” and a “foie gras mousse with prune puree and orange powder on a gingerbread crostini” which looked tiny (and was tiny) but […]
13. December 2014: Restaurant Zoilo
The Restaurant Zoilo is still an absolutely nice place to enyjo a good glass of wine – I went for 0,375L “Abasto” (GBP 17.50) and together with olives (GBP 2.50) and some sparkling water (GBP 1.75) you can spend hours sitting at the bar enjoying the surroundings, the atmosphere, the friendliness of the staff. What […]
13. December 2014: The Connaught Bar
The “Millionaire #1 (an early recipe can be found in the 1914 Jacob Straub’s ‘Drinks’, however the first rum variation appears two years later in Hugo Ensslin’s ‘Recipes for Mixed Drinks’. As Lawton Mackall put it in 1940 ‘Sweet, pleasant, even jovial. In fact, judging from actual millionaires we have met, rather atypical.’)” consisting of […]
