Decided to add some comments this month…
- Marcus Wareing: remains the most complete dining experience I’ve had
- Trinity: this lovely restaurant gets better and better with time – high quality cooking at very reasonable prices in a chic setting – wonderful to have as part of the neighborhood – now hosting masterclasses too
- Per Se: I’ve thought a great deal about the dinner we had here (the meal was back at Easter and I’m yet to post my blog on it) and my view of it has changed over this time for the better; the best service we’ve expereinced anywhere
- The Fat Duck: impossible to not thoroughly enjoy a visit here; well documented as one of the very best
- The Square: class, a little formal to do regularly, but too good to overlook. One of London’s very best.
- Tom Aikens: raw, powerful cooking; my main of Roe Deer looked like a stunning piece of fresh road kill and will stay with me for a long time
- Galvin at Windows: very good cooking, very cool surroundings; makes you (and your guests) feel very special
- The Glasshouse: great cooking, super for lunch on a lazy weekend afternoon
- Les Trois Garcons: if you live in London, go. Best for a snug Autumn/Winter evening
- Vinoteca: ok so it’s a ‘wine shop’ but I love the whole set-up here
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I loved The Square, I actually preferred it to Marcus Wareing. We went to Per Se a couple of years ago and I had a non-alcoholic pairing which was amazing, some taste combinations that were inspired. What do you think of Maze?
I’m delighted to see that Vinoteca has made it into the Top 10 this month. I really like it there. The food is lovely and the wines are really good (a bit too good for a week night!). The only down sides are that it can get very noisy on a Friday night and not being able to book a table can be a bit of a pain if you want to go at a popular time on a Thursday or Friday night.
Re the comment from the curious eater…we’ve been to Maze several times. It used to be one of my top 5 restaurants in London, but we were really disappointed the last time we went. The service was terrible (they actually forgot our main courses and left us sitting there for an hour without any service at all). However, to the head waitress’s credit she did save the day by giving us a lot of free champagne. I’d say Maze is worth trying on the basis that we haven’t been back that recently and it might have improved again.
I’m also a huge fan of Hakassan. Looks like I need to treat the FB to a dinner there to try and get it back into the top 10 list!
curious-eater:
Thanks for your comment.
we loved The Square too; actually it was one of our first proper fine-dining experiences all those years ago, although I think our chuckling at the wobbly cheese might have brought the ambience down a peg or two on that particular evening.
Maze is a curious one to me now, veering from brilliant to awful and back again in one sitting (not the food, which remained excellent throughout, but the service). I actually think it suffers from the Ramsay label and the hotel location (a fair few older men with their ‘daughters’ the last time we went!!). Jason Atherton is a stand alone excellent chef though…
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