I often worry about celebrity chefs' restaurants, you've got to wonder how, with all their TV appearances and the rest they can still keep their eye on the goings on of their restaurants. (I'm looking at you Maze NYC).
But stop your worrying, give out a sigh of relief, with Dinner by Heston Blumenthal you having nothing to fret about.
Situated in the heart of London, near Hyde Park in the amazing Mandarin Oriental hotel, the restaurant has one Michelin star and last year was voted the 9th best restaurant in the world.
The meal was incredible from the get-go, even getting seated at our table was some of the best service I have ever experienced.
We started off our meal with their famous "Meat Fruit", made from chicken liver and foie gras all disguised in a little mandarin costume. Not only was this dish amazing to look at and extremely clever, it tasted unbelievably delicious!!! Even for those who aren't into liver-y and stomach-y things, you will love it!
This was followed by the Salamagundy (say that fast ten times), which was chicken oysters with salsify, marrow bone and horseradish cream. Sounds pretty tame for Heston standards, but tasted bloody good.
For mains, we hoed into the Black Foot pork chop, which we both agreed was the best pork we'd ever eaten, and the succulent Hereford Ribeye accompanied with mushroom ketchup and fries.
We learnt a fun fact: surprisingly ketchup was first invented in Malaysia where they would literally make anything into a ketchup before Heinz came up with the world-changing tomato variety.
My only qualms were that there were no "thrice cooked chips". I had so been looking forward to Heston's famous chips that are boiled, frozen, fried, frozen and fried again.
My worries were quickly put at bay when the dessert arrived. May I present to you the Tipsy Cake with split roasted pineapple:
The thought of a pineapple dessert didn't exactly get me going, but the waitress insisted and boy did they deliver. The cake itself was so crisp on the outside and so soft and buttery on the inside and the pineapple paired with it was just beautiful!
Even though by this stage we were completely filled to the brim, we couldn't come to a Blumenthal establishment and not experience something with liquid nitrogen. So we nodded to the ice-cream trolley and what a show it was.
Filled up to our eyeballs, still jetlagged as a mo'fo, we rolled out of there completely satisfied.
Sophie xx
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