Monday night, 8pm, The Greenhouse.
Had to go for the menu. Made sense really and the fact it was a surprise made it all the more fun.
We only were given this menu signed at the end when we met the chef, so as we went we were just told them as they arrived.
Pair of teefs. Beet meringues, mussel puffs and beef tartare stick thing.
Chili butter was amazing. As were the chorizo and parmesan rolls! I could have taken like 1000 home, easily.
Light wasn't great so do excuse my shots.
First course was good. Different, but good. Parmesan marshmallow with rocket and truffles. It tasted like a nice salad, but textures weren't of that, which was interesting in a good way.
Razor clams, octopus and stuff.
This was my least favourite dish, I have to say, but that's because the flowers added too much bitterness to the flavour, which took away from the rest of the dish. It also needed something with some crunch for texture. My sister's least favourite too, but for her it was due to the jelly texture that was cold. Other than that I enjoyed it, but needed refining.
Mmmmm scallops with curry spicing on a bed of delicate asparagus and a dish of creamy shellfish jelly? I suppose you'd call it that. Balance was incredible and cooked perfectly. I could have kept going on these. Devine.
This is like a risotto but not. It doesn't use rice but uses homemade pasta cut up in to rice like shapes. The ingredients list is 3 things long but I would climb in that bowl and bathe there for a long, long time. While shoveling more and more in my mouth. Rich, warm and delicious.
Lovely bit of bass and still plump and so moist, great cooking on the fish and very fresh flavours. Really nice and clean.
I didn't take a picture of the Hen dish, because I ate it too quickly, but it was nice. Very moist bird and earth autumnal flavours. Not a knock out, but tasty none the less.
Palette cleanser of the mojito sorbet inside the white chocolate pop. Bit of theatre.
This was nice, but I think the orange was a little too sharp on mine, which was a shame but hell I cleaned it right off.
Chocolate, popcorn and coffee. Oh and caramel. The whole thing tasted like popcorn really, which is great. Who doesn't want that? Fantastic.
Boob looking things in the middle were extremely light and delicate lemon cheesecake things. This point I just about managed to get these down me.
I had to take these home, too full. Saying that, my sister then ate them but assured me that they were nice.
I liked my meal there, it was a great experience and the staff were all very nice too. Not stuffy in anyway, would talk to us when we wanted them too and felt less formal in that way. The wine was nice, I only went ~50quid bottle of Sancerre and it was nice, followed by a Sauternes for the desert. Total for 2 was about 350.
Would I go back? I think so.
There were many dishes being served to others that I was like, man I would like to have that too. I'd take the Mrs there.
It was creative and different but still with some solid very tasty food.
