Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms
| Address: | Lenton Lane, Nottingham NG7 2SA | |
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| Tel | 0115 986 6566 | |
| Email: | info@restaurantsatbains.net | |
| Website: | Visit their website | |
Price:
£65.00 
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Wine: £22.00 |
Champagne: £45.00 |
| Opening Hours: | Tues-Sat 7-9.30pm |
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Square Meal review of Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms:
A bedroom-by-bedroom makeover & some minor tweaks to the intimate restaurant have just been completed at what is undoubtedly Nottingham’s number-one destination dining spot & the worthy holder of a Michelin star. Food takes the form a tasting menu & on our visit we began with two shot glasses to cleanse our palates, one filled with carrot, ginger & apple juice, the other cucumber & fennel. These were followed by intricate amuse-bouches of crab croquette, butternut squash soup & chicken liver parfait with tea jelly & topped with popcorn. The combinations were sublime, the sweetness & crunchiness of the popcorn contrasting perfectly with the smoothness of the parfait. The next course was equally memorable – a poached duck egg with chervil root, ham, bread & Alba truffle. Further highlights included beetroot sorbet served with balsamic; organic salmon with fennel, vanilla, passionfruit & liquorice; dry-aged sirloin of Dexter beef, wild mushrooms, polenta with Parmesan salad; &, to finish, chocolate topped with Maldon sea salt & candied violets, served with Manni olive oil jelly. Sweet-natured service is offered by Sat Bains’ wife Amanda & her team.
Chef: Sat Bains
Winner of the BMW Square Meal Award for Best UK Restaurant 2007, the Michelin-starred Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms is run by Sat & Amanda Bains on the outskirts of Nottingham. One of the UK’s most accomplished chefs, Bains helped to open the first Raymond Blanc brasserie in Oxford in 1996. A spell at L’Escargot followed, before he returned to the Midlands to head up the kitchen of the Martins Arms in Colston Basset. After being spotted by Michelin at the Ashbourne Gallery in Derbyshire, he won the Roux Scholarship in 1999, leading to a three-month stint at the then three-Michelin-starred Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier. He returned to take up the post of head chef at Hotel des Clos in Nottingham & in 2002 renamed the restaurant there Restaurant Sat Bains at Hotel des Clos. In October 2004, Sat & Amanda bought the property & fully refurbished the dining room & its 11 bedrooms. In 2007, Bains served the starter at the ambassador’s banquet on the BBC’s Great British Menu.
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