Blue Maverick
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It's on fire apparently. Only been open a few weeks:
Well I know where I’ll be tonight :(
It's on fire apparently. Only been open a few weeks:
It's on fire apparently. Only been open a few weeks:
I love cooking. I love eating. As posh as it gets for me is Gaucho Grill, well I say ‘as it gets’, that was years ago. I’ve eaten in a Michelin recommended pub in the Lakes, which was lovely but was just pub grub.
I watch a lot of cooking programmes. That idiot Heston is on now. Looked at his restaurant - 3 Michelin star - and it’s THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS reservation.
Tom Kerridge is my favourite along with Rick Stein. Kerridge’s Hand and Flowers pub has accommodation for 650 per night. Then food costs. Steins I always threaten to go to when down Padstow. My wallet says Nein.
Anyone been lucky enough to try such high end dining?
Done the Hand and Flowers was absolutely superb.Impressive you went Fat Duck. I can imagine it was like you described though. And I dare say you came out peckish.
Hand and Flowers is a bucket list thing of mine for sure.
I've had high-class meals and they have been superb, but no way do you need to spend that much quoted above to have a really top draw meal...the problem is that these fellas are dining out on their perceived celebrity and trebling or more the price of their creations which are not worth close to being worth what they think they are worth. That Blumenthal chap has been on a voyage up his own arse for years. My wife watches the food programmes and I have seen a few of his efforts and they look OK. And that's it, just OK. Quite nice even, but worth his celebrity inflation? Nope.