Archive for December, 2011
22. December 2011: Restaurant Camino
A hidden treasure – that’s the Restaurant Camino as the restaurant is located in an area where you would not think right away about fine dining but fine dining it is indeed. To begin the journey, we were served ratatouille with wild boar salami from Puschlav (a little town in Switzerland) plus bread. The ratatouille […]
22. December 2011: Ristorante Cantinetta Antinori
The Filettini di manzo marinati (grilled marinated beef filet slices on rucola salad, served with fried potatoes (CHF 46.00) is very tasty. The meat is very tender and juicy, the rucola salad is fresh, and the cheese on top of the filet provides the dish with a little extra taste rounding it up. Also, they […]
21. December 2011: Restaurant Rhubarb
The Beef Burger (GBP 14.50) with additional Cheese & Bacon (GBP 1.50) is quite okay. The meat loaf is rather tasty and juicy, the bacon is crisp and the small gherkins which accompany the burger taste good. But the bread is a bit too fluffy, the cheese some cheap cheese slice. Overall, the burger is […]
21. December 2011: Founder’s Arms
The Founder’s Arms is one of these places you can drink English drinks all day long. A good thing to start the afternoon is the Winter Pimm’s (Pimm’s No. 3 Brandy Cup blended with a subtle hint of orange zest and spices, chilled with ginger ale for GBP 2.85 plus GBP 1.65 for Mixer). The […]
21. December 2011: Restaurant Bishopsgate Kitchen
To start the day with a “Full English Breakfast” (GBP 10.50) with ayrshire smoked bacon, roast portabello mushroom, pork and leek sausages, grilled plum tomato, baked beans, duck egg and toast is as so far a good idea as the breakfast is intense in taste and salty. You get the English feeling right away – […]
20. December 2011: Patisserie Valerie
There is a reason why a patisserie is a patisserie and not a restaurant so I have to blame it on myself. But honestly, you should not eat “regular” food at the patisserie valerie. I decided to have a Cesar Salad with chicken (GBP 9.50). It was a wrong decision. The chicken was a compressed […]
20. December 2011: Restaurant Bellaria & Wine Bar
The starter of the set menu (for GBP 17.50) was a bean soup which was quite okay in taste. The taste was intense and the beans were pretty good overall. Still, the portion was rather – unexpectedly – big. As a main course, I had a salmon filet with lemon, grapefruit and rucola. The salmon […]
20. December 2011: Restaurant Chi Noodle
The grilled beef soup with ramen (thick noodles; GBP 8.20) is quite a big portion for lunch. The beef is peppered pretty strongly but is very tasteful. The soup itself is more like a stock soup but it is quite spicy due to the fact that they put quite some chillies in it. In any […]
