Come dine with me

[DaveB]

Might I suggest :

A medley of mushrooms in a cream sauce.

A salad of Grated Fanny with home made mayonnaise.

[Weltchy]

NITRO-GREEN TEA AND LIME MOUSSE
OYSTER, PASSION FRUIT JELLY, LAVENDER
POMMERY GRAIN MUSTARD ICE CREAM, RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO
JELLY OF QUAIL, LANGOUSTINE CREAM, PARFAIT OF FOIE GRAS
OAK MOSS AND TRUFFLE TOAST
(Homage to Alain Chapel)
SNAIL PORRIDGE
Joselito ham
ROAST FOIE GRAS "BENZALDEHYDE"
Almond fluid gel, cherry, chamomile
"SOUND OF THE SEA"
SALMON POACHED IN LIQUORICE GEL
Artichokes, vanilla mayonnaise and “Manni” olive oil
BALLOTINE OF ANJOU PIGEON
Black pudding “made to order”, pickling brine and spiced juices
HOT AND ICED TEA
MRS MARSHALL’S MARGARET CORNET
PINE SHERBET FOUNTAIN (PRE-HIT)

MANGO AND DOUGLAS FIR PUREE
Bavarois of lychee and mango, blackcurrant sorbet,

blackcurrant and green peppercorn jelly
PARSNIP CEREAL
NITRO-SCRAMBLED EGG AND BACON ICE CREAM (2006)
Pain perdu, tea jelly

PETITS FOURS

Mandarin aerated chocolate, Violet tartlet, Carrot and orange lolly


Can't be bothered with wines after all that

I'd recognise the Fat Duck menu anywhere!!!

[Mich the Tester]

NITRO-GREEN TEA AND LIME MOUSSE
OYSTER, PASSION FRUIT JELLY, LAVENDER
POMMERY GRAIN MUSTARD ICE CREAM, RED CABBAGE GAZPACHO
JELLY OF QUAIL, LANGOUSTINE CREAM, PARFAIT OF FOIE GRAS
OAK MOSS AND TRUFFLE TOAST
(Homage to Alain Chapel)
SNAIL PORRIDGE
Joselito ham
ROAST FOIE GRAS "BENZALDEHYDE"
Almond fluid gel, cherry, chamomile
"SOUND OF THE SEA"
SALMON POACHED IN LIQUORICE GEL
Artichokes, vanilla mayonnaise and “Manni” olive oil
BALLOTINE OF ANJOU PIGEON
Black pudding “made to order”, pickling brine and spiced juices
HOT AND ICED TEA
MRS MARSHALL’S MARGARET CORNET
PINE SHERBET FOUNTAIN (PRE-HIT)

MANGO AND DOUGLAS FIR PUREE
Bavarois of lychee and mango, blackcurrant sorbet,

blackcurrant and green peppercorn jelly
PARSNIP CEREAL
NITRO-SCRAMBLED EGG AND BACON ICE CREAM (2006)
Pain perdu, tea jelly

PETITS FOURS

Mandarin aerated chocolate, Violet tartlet, Carrot and orange lolly


Can't be bothered with wines after all that

This kind of food just annoys me.

[Gibbon]

This kind of food just annoys me.

Hey, we agree

dislaimer <Doesn't mean you dislike anybody though>

[bogeyman]

This kind of food just annoys me.

[norrahe]

This kind of food just annoys me.

it's fun to eat though!

[Mich the Tester]

it's fun to eat though!

I don’t mind the odd ‘chef’s latest trick’ dish, but some chefs are so far up their own behinds it just pisses me off. I want good food, not some overblown kitchen chemist’s latest brainfarts. Fine if you give me one or two in-between dishes that surprise me, but I really feel like I’m being taken for a ride with this tosh. It's just tacky, a bit like a white bentley with chrome 'keep wizzing about' wheel covers.

A couple of weeks ago Mrs Tester and I, who aren’t exactly your regular Little Chef customers when we go out to eat, went to a place with 2 stars that had lots of rave reviews. 5 courses, 4 very good, but 1 just wrecked everything; cold chicken stock with a mussel floating in it and a weird foam on top. Of course it was called ‘Chilled Cappuccino’ of something or other, but it looked like a cat's ear in formaldehyde and the only way I can describe the taste and texture of it is to say that I can’t believe any heterosexual man would enjoy it. I had the temerity to suggest to the waiter that it might taste better warm, and before you knew it, there was the chef, calling me an uncultured bumpkin and lots more stuff I shan’t repeat. I might be an uncultured bumpkin and granted, I look a bit like a baddy from a Rocky film, but I’m a paying customer and I want good food, not a lecture about what I’m supposed to like.

Rant over.

[Moscow Mule]

*snip*

Rant over.

Could you perhaps name the establishment so we can all avoid a chef who doesn't know that the customer is *always* right?

[Drewster]

.......I had the temerity to suggest to the waiter that it might taste better warm, and before you knew it, there was the chef, calling me an uncultured bumpkin and lots more stuff I shan’t repeat. I might be an uncultured bumpkin and granted, I look a bit like a baddy from a Rocky film, but I’m a paying customer and I want good food, not a lecture about what I’m supposed to like.

Rant over.

a bloke who won't pay some pretentious kn*b to look down his nose at me

or I walk out

[Mich the Tester]

Could you perhaps name the establishment so we can all avoid a chef who doesn't know that the customer is *always* right?

Yes, it's 'de Bokkepruik' in Hardenberg, eastern NL.