Dinner by Heston Blumenthal

[joggerjayne]

Who's going to try Heston's new place ?

I can't wait.

I wonder if there's a long wait for reservations ?

[tiggerblue10]

Yes, and a baby chair.

[joeluke]

I always laugh when I see those arty towers chefs build up on a plate, especially when it has 4 chips on top in a criss cross pattern - where's the rest of the chips for fluffs sake, that ain't never gonna fill you up

Proper food, proper portions

[ummmm]

It would probably fill me up...

[joeluke]

Very small appetite ummmm?

[snags]

''Salamagundy: Chicken Oysters, Bone Marrow and Horseradish Cream... £15.00''

For fluffs sake...

[joggerjayne]

"4 chips in a criss cross pattern"

So ... "pont neuf chips" then ?

=0)

Sorry, Tiggy ... I meant, of course, a table for three !!

[ummmm]

Yeah....sadly. I do eat plenty...just not in one go. Really pees me off...

[tiggerblue10]

I like tasting different foods.

[joggerjayne]

I think the oyster on a chicken is that bit underneath, if you were carving it, and you have to turn it over an poke it out with your finger.

[sherrardk]

I don't do poking bits of food off a chicken (yeuch).

[joeluke]

"pont neuf chips"?

Thick cut to us ordinary folk

[joggerjayne]

But if you stack them up, they are "pont neuf"

Just like if you take a pile of bricks, and stack them up ... it's a wall.

[DTCwordfan]

Have you ever tried Le Manoir aux Quatres Saison at Great Milton, near Thame, Jayne; that is brilliant and a wonderful setting.

Not cheap mind you but well worth the experience. A cheaper way out of experiencing the place is to go for tea.......

[askyourgran]

Pont Neuf frites surely at that price.

I like my food to look nice but not played about with first, and I couldn't justify spending £300 or so on a meal

[joggerjayne]

Oh, I LOVE Le Manoir, DTC.

We've been there a few times for lunch, and still been sitting on the lawn, drinking wine, when the dinner guests have been arriving at 7.00.

Yes, it's fab.