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No, but people like to pick on us for some reason, especially snotty people who think they're better than everybody else
So I went for dinner at Gordon Ramsey at Claridges
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No, but people like to pick on us for some reason, especially snotty people who think they're better than everybody else
Non mon ami, we say haute couture to mean high end. I'm sure one can say haute cuisine too though - so you're probably right.
Haute couture is a term associated with the high end fashion industry.
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Can I be your date when you go? I've been wanting to go there for ages!
I promise to speak exclusively in French and behave like a snotty Frenchman all night!!!
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Thanks, learning something new every day
A lot of us use haute couture to mean "high end" too.
You should go to Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, I've been to a few michelin star rated restaurants and the food there was just sensational. Marcus Wareing and the Fat Duck are suppose to be really good as well. As I am vegetarian Gordan Ramsey's has never really appealed and his restaurants aren't suppose to be very vegie friendly!
As for the portions just try eating them and you'll be surprised how full you get. Every time I've been the last dish and the desert has been bloody hard to eat as you get so full. You need to remember as well they give you bread as well between dishes.
As for the portions just try eating them and you'll be surprised how full you get. Every time I've been the last dish and the desert has been bloody hard to eat as you get so full. You need to remember as well they give you bread as well between dishes.
Thanks, learning something new every day
A lot of us use haute couture to mean "high end" too.
Oh yeah, haute I agree with, coutre is fashion though
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Can you go to that restaurant and take a photo before eating instead of showing us left overs 
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Oh yeah, haute I agree with, coutre is fashion though
I did learn that word believe it or not
I completely know what you're saying, and you're not wrong at all - haute cuisine is used, but, in general, one can use "haute cuture" to mean "high brow/end" - well, certainly my family and circle of friends in France do....
Though I haven't lived in France for a while so maybe that's not used anymore... Maybe it's a regional or "style" thing - I've always been understood when saying that. You've got me second guessing myself, and a Frog to do that is a big deal! 
That's not OCD, that's standard practice for a high-end dining establishment. Very sloppy to see they weren't ironed on the tables.
And as someone else has pointed out, little wonder they lost their star.
I'd be tempted to agree.
The John Dory dish looks like it hasn't been kept level when being carried to the table and the espuma has lost its volume.
Nothing wrong with taking photos at the table, assuming you're using a phone or compact camera, but very bad form to use flash. That's not fair on the other diners.
Rumours have it that it will drop down to two-star status this time round. Which is a shame as Clare Smyth is a talented lady.
If you've never been, you have to go. But it does feel like its edging towards the novelty factor these days, especially with the removal of the à la carte menu.
L'Ortolan in Shinfield and The Vineyard in Stockcross are highly recommended if you want top-end dining for sensible prices.
Absolutely.
I've never been as full or as content as when I've had the pleasure of enjoying a full-on tasting menu. It's an experience in every sense of the word.
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EDIT: Can't believe you managed to ninja that
EDIT: Beaten to it a few posts above anyway. I'll just slink away quietly.
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To answer a few of the points raised, I can eat as much as the next bloke and trust me by the end of the meal I was stuffed, I wouldn't have wanted any more.
When they gave us the chocolates at the end of the meal we were told once we'd eat all of them they would fetch more out, the restaurant manager was disappointed we couldn't even finish the first lot.
Also regarding taking some photos, I did feel we needed to be discreet taking the pictures, that's why the first one had no flash. Most pictures are actually of the wife not just a close up of the plate but I've cropped them to post on here.
I wanted to take photos as I knew friends and family would be really interested.
Lysnader describing it as very amusing and chavvy for taking a few photos, honestly it makes you sound a right toffee nosed pleb.
Did you sit at your computer tittering and guffawing to yourself that I would do something so crude and crass?
Pathetic.
When they gave us the chocolates at the end of the meal we were told once we'd eat all of them they would fetch more out, the restaurant manager was disappointed we couldn't even finish the first lot.
Also regarding taking some photos, I did feel we needed to be discreet taking the pictures, that's why the first one had no flash. Most pictures are actually of the wife not just a close up of the plate but I've cropped them to post on here.
I wanted to take photos as I knew friends and family would be really interested.
Lysnader describing it as very amusing and chavvy for taking a few photos, honestly it makes you sound a right toffee nosed pleb.
Did you sit at your computer tittering and guffawing to yourself that I would do something so crude and crass?
Pathetic.
Is that why so many Brit films film the same locations over and over again in London?!
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That fish looks like it's covered in maggots
Yeah that's the first thing we said when we looked at the pictures
it's not even that, they have just never tried it. I eat way to much and still get full at these things.