Comments on a rather unusual chinaman: It's the big one, The Fat Duck (Bray)

A great review - I found it very interesting to re...

2010-10-26T04:30:47.733+01:00

A great review - I found it very interesting to read through someone else's experience. I have also written a review of The Fat Duck, if you are interested. I found the waiting times between each course the biggest negative of the day. I too, was a little apprehensive of the "Sound of the Sea", however, I enjoyed the whole experience very much.

Hey u weird being! Now I know why Ive read your bl...

2010-09-16T00:50:04.312+01:00

Hey u weird being! Now I know why Ive read your blog... I have read this fat duck entry and the one about the red lion pig!

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I have never seen such an esthetically terrible pr...

2010-07-16T08:56:59.638+01:00

I have never seen such an esthetically terrible presentation. All these dishes are awful, in fact they are not dishes at all, these are dramatic pretentious bite size esthetically failed constructions, nothing to do with innovation and nothing to do with delicious food. How can this remotely inspire respect? Perhaps these can be best described as an excuse to extract vast sums from people in desperate need for a cultural label. It inspires the use of the paper bags usually found in the back pockets of plane seats...

Great review and photos, sir. One thing I noticed...

2010-06-03T17:11:22.338+01:00

Great review and photos, sir.

One thing I noticed is that you assumed something similar to me - you said the roast foie gras was "deceivingly simple". I'm not sure if you're referring to the ingredients or cooking method, but I thought it might be pretty much the only dish I could cook at home. When I got the Fat Duck cookbook I immediately looked up the recipe and was slightly alarmed to read about cryogenically freezing the foie gras...deceptively simple indeed :)

Great photos, lovely account. Delighted to see tha...

2010-05-03T12:43:11.766+01:00

Great photos, lovely account. Delighted to see that a few new dishes have been introduced since I went in Aug 2007. Loved the snail porridge and the roast pigeon, VERY intrigued by the mad hatter tea!

I reckon Fat Duck is one of the very few restaurants anywhere that is worth such heart-stabbing prices. The meal comes with entertainment baked in, and best of all, the entertainment doesn't (in my view anyway) distract from the eating experience itself.

P.S. If and when I do move back to London, I feel somewhat that it's my seafood-obsessive responsibility to gently rehabilitate you from your piscene hang-ups!

Nice review... It's definitely an experience t...

2010-05-03T12:07:16.160+01:00

Nice review... It's definitely an experience that I'd like to have, but having read so many reviews recently I feel like I know it too well! Maybe worth waiting to see what he does with the Mandarin Oriental

Rich

I can see what all the fuss is about now!!

2010-05-02T20:51:08.853+01:00

I can see what all the fuss is about now!!

What an absolutey wonderful review! It's reall...

2010-04-27T11:55:53.508+01:00

What an absolutey wonderful review! It's really enjoyable and refreshing to read a review like this which doesn't fall into either of the usual traps when writing about restaurants of this calibre: being completely 'star-struck' by it and becoming blind to flaws, or being determined to slate it no matter what just to be contrary. I especially like that you were prepared to try things you knew you didn't like but didn't feel obliged to finish them!