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🙂 4/5 - More interesting than good on second visit
By 👻 @Greenway1951, 12/23/2022 3:00 am
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We had a very good and exciting meal here three years ago. Our repeat visit was less rewarding. The chef, in his eagerness to show off his considerable knowledge of multiple cuisines and obscure ingredients, seems to have lost his focus. on making sure the final dish tastes good. Despite exotic components (e.g. bergamot labneh, fig leaf vinegar, soy koji butter, black garlic purée) and uncommon techniques (8 day fermented maize dough, dry aged halibut, dehydrated grapefruit skins, etc.) there really wasn't any dish we had (a total of eight, including the amuse bouche and final pettit fours with the tasting menu) that had any punch or cohesion or synergism of flavors. Even the chef's trademark dish of the dry aged halibut we had had three years ago, and have continued to rave to fellow foodies as an example of brilliant manipulation of food failed to impress us on our second time this visit. Overall, interesting but just not any memorable or impressive dishes to our tastes. Service was just a bit problematic for a restaurant of this ambition as well. Our reception was warm and enthusiastic, but after being seated with the menus, we seemed to have failed to register with any of the members of the team waitstaff. The restaurant was only half full on this Thursday night, so there was really little excuse for an over ten minute lapse to even get a drink order placed. We had to flag down one of the waitstaff even at that (not the one who was busy folding napkins at the pass-through with her back to us about six feet from our table at that.) The waitstaff who took our wine order seemed a little uncertain. The wine list is somewhat eccentric, and the mark-up is the typical brutal 300-400% of retail common in London fine restaurants. The restaurant offers a la carte options of two dishes at £50 or three at £60, or the tasting menu with two starter and two mains for the menu, plus an amuse bouche, a sorbet, dessert and and petit fours for £110. A vegan tasting menu is also in the mix. Two tasting menus, two glasses of very nice English sparking, and an anonymous Chilean carmenere and service charge lightened our purse £329 Other reviews are quite enthusiastic, but we could not much recommend based on food, service or value.
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