Our Top books for Xmas 2009

We wrote our Xmas lists the other week and as usual mine was full of foodie books.  I tend to take inspiration from books rather than try every recipe but some have become real favourites like “Jamie at Home” by Jamie Oliver; “How to be a Domestic Goddess” by Nigella Lawson and the fantastic bargain [...]

Review: The Fat Duck 2009 (part 4)

Following on from part one, two and three of our review we now move on to part four.

Background and arrival
The Menu: part 1
The Menu: part 2
The Bill plus conclusions

First, an Extra bit…
After reading the last part of the review and then looking at the bill (below) I realised I forgot completely to mention that two [...]

Review: The Fat Duck 2009 (part 3)

Following on from part one and two of our review we now move on to part three.

Background and arrival
The Menu: part 1
The Menu: part 2
The Bill plus conclusions

The Menu: part 2
Over the page on the menu we were presented with the following:
After a couple of dishes which weren’t my favourites we moved on to the [...]

Review: The Fat Duck 2009 (part 2)

Following on from part 1 of our review we now move on to part 2 (naturally!).

Background and arrival
The Menu: part 1
The Menu: part 2
The Bill plus conclusions

The Menu: part 1
We opened the sealed Fat Duck tasting menu envelope and were presented with this on the first page.
The Nitro-poached green tea and line mousse started the [...]

Review: The Fat Duck 2009 (part 1)

It’s finally (!) here.  Our review of our recent (return) visit to Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck.  We’re going to split the review up into four parts.

Background and arrival
The Menu: part 1
The Menu: part 2
The Bill plus conclusions

We’ll liberally scatter photo’s from the night into the review but you can see them all on our [...]