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Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons

Address:	Church Road, Great Milton OX44 7PD
Tel	01844 278 881
Email:	lemanoir@blanc.co.uk
Website:	Visit their website
Price: £92.00	Wine: £15.00	Champagne: £48.00
Opening Hours:	Mon-Sun 7.30-10am 12.15-2.45pm 7.15-9.45pm

Square Meal review of Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons:

With starters hovering around the £30 mark and main courses almost touching £40, Le Manoir is one of the country’s most expensive restaurants – but it is also one that earns every penny it charges. ‘It can’t be beaten on any level’ is, indeed, one verdict on Raymond Blanc’s fine-tuned take on country house luxury, which impresses from the moment one’s tyres crunch reassuringly over the gravel through beautiful grounds towards the meticulously well-kept manor house. The kitchens earn their keep with near-faultless cooking based on classic French technique and the very best ingredients. You’ll get plenty of luxury for your money, too: Few are the dishes that do not come speckled with things like truffles, caviar and foie gras, and the sizeable wine list carries plenty of big names from Burgundy and Bordeaux. Rich and light flavours are perfectly balanced in dishes like the cannelloni of sweet-fleshed langoustines served with a well-rounded puree of cauliflower and garden herbs and topped with a roasted scallop and pearls of caviar, and the clever threesome of suckling pig (loin, cheek and belly) paired with delicate majoram-scented jus. Inventive desserts bring proceedings to a thrilling finish, by which time the remarkably relaxed service and setting should have lulled you in to a sense of such enormous well-being that you’re not too troubled by the substantial bill.