Listen to what I had to eat tonight, I can't put this post in food cos it's too mad!

[Thomcat]

Got taken out to dinner tonight to the Fat Duck in Bray, anyone been? Listen to what I had.........

Nitro Green tea and Lime mousse
(they freeze eye whites and lime moussse with a dash on vodka in liquid nitro at the table and you pop the whole thing in your mouth, it's a palate cleanser basically and is obviuoulsy FREEZING!

an oranga and a beetroot gelee

Fresh oyster with passion fruit jelly and a horseraddish cream with lavender

I BOUGHT THE MENU HOME BTW WHICH IS HOW I CAN DO THIS

Pommery grain mustarn ice cream with a red cabbege gazpacho

Jelly of quail with lanoustine cream and parfait of foie gras

snail porridge with jubugi ham and shaved fennel

roasted foie gras with chamomile, almond fluid gel, cherry and amaretto jelly
viar

mango and douglas fir puree, bavarois of lychee and mango and a blankcurrant sorbet

Orange and carrot tuile, a bavarois of basil and beetroot jelly

smoked bacon and egg ice cream with pain perdu and tea gelee

and a leather, an oak, a pine and a mint chocolate

OMG, how mad is all that??!!

The only thing I didn't like was the bacon and egg ice cream, oh and the sardine toast sorbet.
They were both gross, everything else was out of this world.

white choc and caviar in one bite, yum!
Snail porridhe with the jubugo ham - wonderful

Strange huh.
sardine on toast sorbet with ballotine of mackerel invertebrate marinated dycon and salmon eggs

salmon poached with liquorice, asparagus, pink grape fruit and manni olive oil

poached breast of anjou pigeon, pastille of it's leg. pistachio, cocoa and quatre epices

white chocolate and ca

I was taken, along with my best mate, by her boss and his wife.
It was 90 quid a head, without the wine, we took our own, he's a wine buyer so we drank a bottle of vintage champagne and vintage white & red, SO scrummy, but it was all about the food.
I would go back, not for a while, give him a chance to think of new things for his tasting menu. Anyone can take their own wine to an restuarant btw you just have to pay corkage, might keep the price down if you're thinking about going.
I can't wait to tak emy stepfather there, he'd really appreciae it.
You totally taste and appreciate everything. Like the grated liquorice on the salmon, it just worked so well, with tiny seeds of pink grapefruit.
Oh and the foie gras with chamomile, just beautiful, so delicate,and the tiny cubes, the size of your finger nail of ameraetto jelly.
The white chocolate with caviar, amazing, it just worked.
Oh the mustard icecream with red cabbage gazpacho, YUM!
Presented beutifully, we sat down at 8.30 and left the table at 12.30, tiny bits of food delivered to us throughout the evening by really nice french waiters with their sexy accents and it was such a nice venue, like being in someone's front room, ot stuffy or anything like that. What I'm saying here is that was an amazing night, a real experience, not just a meal out, it was a culinery delight, great fun, exciting, and

Had never heard of this restaurant until this thread and then there was an article about it in yesterday's Indie. Coincidence.

Where's Bray? The only one I know is in Ireland

I read about this place in the times last year.

I'm a bit of a foodie, and love smart restaurants, but I'm afraid my thought when I read the Times piece was 'that's just tooooo wierd for me', esp. at thoses prices. I think you just confirmed it for me.

I'm desperate however to have an evening at 'Le Manoir de Quatre Saisons'. I don't suppose anyone has any discount vouchers? and a spare bed to have ds overnight?

Tinker,
Bray is just down the Thames from Maidenhead.

I like the Waterside there, haven't been for years tho' (no discount vouchers there either )