We were a party of 7 having lunch at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s last week. It was a fantastic end to end experience: beautiful surroundings, super friendly staff and sublime food.

I had tomato salad with goat’s cheese crème and fennel beignets, lemon sole with asparagus and citrus beurre blanc and a selection of cheese for dessert. Others had quail for starter, lamb with peas and mint sauce for mains and strawberries and fig tart for dessert. All dishes were beautiful presented and flavours were clean and very delicious. Perfect size dishes for lunch, 3 courses can seem heavy, but they were well proportioned and didn’t make you feel stuffed.

We had a lovely white vouvray from Loire, crisp and not too dry and a red pinot noir from Bourgogne, which were light and fruity. The 3 children in our party had fresh pineapple juice.

It was quite a view when the waiters served the dishes. 7 people lined up with silver trays and 2 waiters served us. Now this sounds quite snobbish but here it just seemed natural.

After having dessert, the children paid the bathrooms a visit and they were thrilled as the lady had turned the water on for them and given them soap in their hands.

Coffee and tea was served with petit four and left us all reflecting on the lovely experience. In the hall the afternoon tea was in full service accompanied by light jazz music and we went out in the real world.

Well done!