Simpsons (20 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 3DU) Must be the best value set lunch around, the £30 for 3 courses includes a half bottle of wine (each), olives, an amuse bouche, a pre pudding, petit fours and a beautiful and huge selection of bread. I had Menu One, my wife Menu Two, faultless stylish cooking, a highlight being the amazing flavour from the slow roast chicken breast. Service formal but not intrusive, only slight moan about the whole experience is my glass of wine at the bar was a stiff £11. Go before they withdraw this offer!!!
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Entropy (42 Hinckley Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 0RB) Comfortably the best place in Leicester. It's not cheap, and there are fancier surroundings but the food is almost always brilliant. In several visits some slightly overdone lambs liver is the only thing I could criticise. Menu a lovely mix of adventurous and familiar, Entropy is fantastic because you can spend £20 on a casual lunch or £100 on a posh dinner and be equally satisfied.
Link to this reviewMay 2010 | | Overall: | 9 |
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Le Café Anglais (8 Porchester Gardens, London, London, W2 4DB) A strange evening, food underwhelming, service impeccable, seemingly the opposite of many. Stunning room, feels truly special, manages to be intimate and huge, buzzy and virtually full, impressive for a Tuesday night. French waiter was superb from start to finish, attentive, good wine recommendations, truly faultless. Food was hit and miss, rabbit rillettes were so chilled as to be tasteless, and contained several bones. Oysters good, partridge choucroute tepid and underwhelming. Perversely in a french restaurant the best dish of the night a thai green curry which was perfumed, hot , sweet, sour one of the best I've ever tasted. I'd go back, lovely atmosphere and I think with different menu choices we could have had a wonderful night.
Link to this reviewMay 2010 | | Overall: | 7 |
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Arrived at 7.00 for a drink in the bar and it was virtually empty, more staff than customers. Had a couple of cocktails at the bar, good selection and nice range of non alcoholic ones pleased my pregnant wife. It's a smallish room, stylish in an understated way. A compact table for 3 in front of the open kitchen was nice, 7.30 by now and starting to fill up a bit, menu looked fantastic, lovely bread brought over. There wasn't a dish worse than very good all night, starters of snails & meatballs, the boudin blanc and asparagus were beautiful. Earthy but delicate. Mains of quail, lamb and pollack all as good. Highlights the egg yolk ravioli that accompanied the quail and the squid ink sauce that came with the pollack. My other 2 guests loved their desserts (I abstained) a brief taste of the salted butter caramel ice cream that accompanied the chocolate valhrona was stunning. It's not perfect, the tables are a bit close together, our service was charming but sometimes forgetful, and the toilets are a trek, beware also if you sit in front of the open kitchen that if the disgustingly handsome Mr Loubet is cooking any female guests might be distracted…
Link to this reviewMay 2010 | | Overall: | 8 |
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St John (26 St John Street, London, EC1M 4AY) Just a very special restaurant, sparse and plain in decor, even sparser and plainer menu descriptions, and the best food I have ever tasted. Would be cheap at twice the price. My pigs cheek with dandelion and kid offal with lentils were the best dishes I have ever had, bread and desserts merely wonderful by comparison.
Link to this reviewMay 2010 | | Overall: | 9 |
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