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[Food] Restaurant 2024 thread
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Went last night, and I have to say it was incredible. Probably one of the best meals out I've ever had.
Not sure what you meant by 'warned off' as we did the wine flight and the pairings were perfect. It does turn it into a very expensive night out, of course, but it was our anniversary and, considering we went for extra courses, I am very delicate this morning. But so worth it. The 22 year old Vacqueyras was in @Goldstone1976 territory.
Oddly, as a meat eater, the soup of the day (wild garlic and Jersey Royal) was probably my favourite course. Incredibly complex and a mixture of textures, which, for a soup, is an incredible achievement. It went very well with the marmite brioche and seaweed butter too.
Best pairing was the guinea hen with a Chilean Cinsault.
A 10/10 for me. They could probably get a star if they want one (though Michelin seem to not like giving them to 'slebs) but I'm quite happy if they don't so I can get booked in for my birthday later in the year without fighting off tourists.
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Can I add +39 Pizza On The Road to that list. He has a van and is based out of Heene Road Worthing but had regular visits to other places in the area such as Orange Tree in Ferring.
He is a former Fatto A Mano pizza chef so very similar style with good flavours and pricing. Adding hot honey (honey with chilli) to a meat pizza was a new thing for me but works really well
Looks great. Hope you had a brilliant anniversary. The Vacqueyras does look good.
Coincidentally, I was out the previous evening in the smoke. He also did a wild garlic and jersey royal soup:
Machiavelli
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How regularly do you go to KT?
Typically 4 times a year. Broadly, with each new season.
That menu looks great...and long.
It was… and it always is: in at 19:00, out at 23:45. 19 seats, 1 sitting.
How does the wine pairing work? Is it small amounts for each course? Always alcohol? I guess there's some interesting champagnes in there?
I went to https://coda-berlin.com last summer and this is 15 courses. From memory we had a pairing for each course but always small and not always alcoholic. We had a beer, well a mouthful, for one course. We were advised to have a bottle of wine on the side, so we took a nice Reisling. Coincidentally I sourced the Reisling myself, and finished off the last bottle on Tuesday to declare my balcony open for the summer.
Been to Etch a couple of times and loved it both times. If I had a criticism - and this is more personal taste - is that they need to pan fry their meat ( lamb both times when I went ) after cooking it in a water bath - just to get some browness and texture on it.
Hopefully seeing Steven Edwards at the Foodie Festival this Sunday.
There are 3 pairings available: wine (typically 200ml to last 2 courses), 100% champagne (as you’ve observed, they - well, Sandia - is really into Champagne; I think she has the best Champagne list in London, stuffed full of micro growers), and non-alcoholic.
We had a bottle of champagne pre-dinner, the pairing with some swapsies where I preferred something on the main list to what was on the pairing list, and the introduction of a brilliant Polish vodka to go with the scallop/caviar. Loads of my friends vehemently extol the virtues of champagne with caviar, but for me it has to be vodka served as cold as the restaurant can make it - a blast freezer (-50C) for a bit is quite good for that!
Riesling is the most underrated grape variety of all, imo. If in doubt what to serve/drink, make it a Riesling.
Machiavelli
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A fellow wine snob concurs. Riesling and sherry are the most under-appreciated and, as a consequence, best-priced wines.
KT just gets better the more I hear about it. I think this will be the restaurant on my bucket list. I will take the champagne pairing but if there’s caviar I’ll swop out for a -50C vodka shot on your recommendation!
BrightonCottager
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I just back from there. 4 of us shared a 20" pizza which was well cooked and lovely - £28. Excellent Hophead as well. For me, the only thing that was missing was a knife and fork. I am not a savage FFS.
Glad to hear it was good. I noticed they’ve also just gone in to Shelter Hall for a month I think
BrightonCottager
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MrsBC went to Etch and loved the food and wine, although was slightly horrified when other diners started licking their plates! She also commented that there was a lot of pressure to buy more wine and other drinks.
You won’t be disappointed - 10 pieces of Original Recipe chicken plus x4 fries for £22.99. (If you want a Coke Zero / Fanta etc, that’s extra).
So the wife came home legless and blamed the restaurant
“According to a report in the Times, a secondary market is developing in hard-to-get tables, an issue which has already arisen in New York and San Francisco and has now arrived in London. Much like gig ticket touts, scalpers are using online booking platforms to grab hot reservations, which are then offered for resale. According to the Times, a table this month at the Michelin two-star Indian restaurant Gymkhana was being offered for £256, while at the Michelin three-star Core by Clare Smyth it was £408. These costs are obviously before anything has been consumed.”
Scumbags.
Scumbags.