Micromanage my Life - London Edition

[Wilfrid]

He has made a big contribution to precisely that trend.

 

It's like the real past, only better. Like dishes in Jane Grigson you'd heard of, but had never in fact seen anyone make. Costume drama. And that's not pejorative either. (Actual British traditional cooking would not have been as influential.)

[changeup]

 

It's like the real past, only better.

 

Heston Blumenthal's Dinner comes to mind. I'm sure those recipes when cooked back in the day tasted very much not the same compared to what he serves today as representative of those original recipes.

[CheeseMonger]

England England!

[mongo_jones]

very good lunch yesterday at trishna (the lunch tasting menu at £35 presents an alarming amount of food).

 

bizarro ramen in the soho area with a whisky biz friend who i met at milroy's; we then walked over to brewdog and from there to some place called bone daddies for ramen. i got the harissa ramen. whatever.

 

excellent lunch today at the clove club. £65 5 course lunch menu (which is really about 8 courses with all the various extra bits that show up). apart from the fact that some of the very earnest young men who brought dishes over were barely audible as they described them, i have no complaints (despite being seated at the bar). the meal peaked with a 21 day aged duck that was just divine. among the best meals i've had this year.

 

noble rot tomorrow and hedone and st. john on friday and then i'm done with expensive food on this trip. by the way, i hadn't realized how far away hedone is from where i am.

[Sneakeater]

Or from anywhere.

[Sneakeater]

I was nearly a half hour late for my reservation there because I way underestimated the taxi time. When I apologized profusely upon arriving, I got the feeling that EVERYBODY is late there..

[mongo_jones]

luckily, it's a straight shot on the district line from the tower hill station (about 50 feet from my hotel) to the chiswick park station.

 

here now is the duck from the clove club. no, you don't get it all, but they parade this duck to every table seemingly--or maybe it is the case that you're only shown the duck your piece of breast is going to be sliced from.

 

[Anthony Bonner]

re:the EMP comments earlier...

[Sneakeater]

I'll bet it's the same duck.

[Wilfrid]

Looks a bit red.

[johannabanana]

luckily, it's a straight shot on the district line from the tower hill station (about 50 feet from my hotel) to the chiswick park station.

 

You're almost certainly already aware of this but make sure you take the right District Line train for Chiswick Park or switch at Earl's Court.

[taion]

I'll bet it's the same duck.

 

As at EMP, right? They just fly that poor bird back and forth on a daily basis.

[Sneakeater]

Right. Exactly.

 

Unfortunately it's beyond flying itself anymore.

[mongo_jones]

Looks a bit red.

 

 

even has coriander seed on top.

 

but i should post the picture of the seekh kababs i had at dinner with my cousin tonight at a convenient curry house: very un-red.

[mongo_jones]

here's the portion of the duck i was served. we need a digital forensics team to establish whether this piece could have come from any quadrant of the breast from the picture above.