What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[malcd1]

It is a good job you're loaded. Which menu have you been booked in for (I take it the £59 if for all six courses)?

[Bruce Rioja]

It is a good job you're loaded. Which menu have you been booked in for (I take it the £59 if for all six courses)?

Loaded? I've absolutely no idea as to how come one or two on here labour under this misapprehension?!

I don't know what it is exactly that I've let myself in for here to be honest, Malc. I did look at the £59 menu (matched wines are available. Christ?!) and think - I do hope that that's for a blast at all of it.

[Bijou Bob]

My mate's Mrs has just rang. It's his Birthday in a couple of weeks so she was ringing to let me know that she's booked a table for a small group of us at The French in Manny. I've just taken the trouble to look at the menus and prices.

You can't take it with you, you tight c*nt! Do The French and do it well.

[Bruce Rioja]

My mate's Mrs has just rang. It's his Birthday in a couple of weeks so she was ringing to let me know that she's booked a table for a small group of us at The French in Manny. I've just taken the trouble to look at the menus and prices.

You can't take it with you, you tight c*nt! Do The French and do it well.

Oh, I shall.

[Bijou Bob]

You serve, I'll volley

[Lord Kangana]

The word on the street is that The French isn't as good as L'Enclume - usual story, he's put in the graft to make his name, and now has spread himself widely and thinly to cash in on his good name.

[Bruce Rioja]

The word on the street is that The French isn't as good as L'Enclume - usual story, he's put in the graft to make his name, and now has spread himself widely and thinly to cash in on his good name.

Interesting. I was talking with a different friend yesterday about possibly going to Jamie Oliver's, to which he replied and I quote "You may as well go to fecking McDonalds", which is possibly harsh but I took it as him making broadly the same point that you are.

[boltonboris]

The word on the street is that The French isn't as good as L'Enclume - usual story, he's put in the graft to make his name, and now has spread himself widely and thinly to cash in on his good name.

Interesting. I was talking with a different friend yesterday about possibly going to Jamie Oliver's, to which he replied and I quote "You may as well go to fecking McDonalds", which is possibly harsh but I took it as him making broadly the same point that you are.

The food is fairly decent at Jamie's Italian, but the drinks menu is great and there's a real buzz in the place. Brilliant atmopshere

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Made a lasagne for tea tonight. Used the leftover sauce from the macaroni cheese the other day instead of bechamel. Should be interesting...

[General Mannerheim]

The word on the street is that The French isn't as good as L'Enclume - usual story, he's put in the graft to make his name, and now has spread himself widely and thinly to cash in on his good name.

Interesting. I was talking with a different friend yesterday about possibly going to Jamie Oliver's, to which he replied and I quote "You may as well go to fecking McDonalds", which is possibly harsh but I took it as him making broadly the same point that you are.

The food is fairly decent at Jamie's Italian, but the drinks menu is great and there's a real buzz in the place. Brilliant atmopshere

i think alot of people go to Jamies expecting a restaurant run by a well known celebrity tv chef to be a bit more, err, poncey? and therefore are generally unimpressed with its simple laid back approach.

[Bruce Rioja]

The word on the street is that The French isn't as good as L'Enclume - usual story, he's put in the graft to make his name, and now has spread himself widely and thinly to cash in on his good name.

Interesting. I was talking with a different friend yesterday about possibly going to Jamie Oliver's, to which he replied and I quote "You may as well go to fecking McDonalds", which is possibly harsh but I took it as him making broadly the same point that you are.

The food is fairly decent at Jamie's Italian, but the drinks menu is great and there's a real buzz in the place. Brilliant atmopshere

i think alot of people go to Jamies expecting a restaurant run by a well known celebrity tv chef to be a bit more, err, poncey? and therefore are generally unimpressed with its simple laid back approach.

Think it was more the menu that he was unimpressed with. Apparently they're all the same.

[boltonboris]

They have weekly specials, which always look spot on. The menu is good though.

[General Mannerheim]

i think they are all the same, they are in the london ones anyway. although they do change it seasonally. we used to go so often i got sick of it, not been in a while tho.

[Prufrock]

Ham and Wigmore sandwiches. Amazing.

[Bruce Rioja]

i think they are all the same, they are in the london ones anyway. although they do change it seasonally. we used to go so often i got sick of it, not been in a while tho.

Though to be honest, mate, I'm pretty sure that anybody that's even vaguely familiar with Jamie Oliver could never imagine that his restaurants might actually be 'poncey' by simple dint of him being a chef on tv.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

An old school friend is visiting London and asked on Facebook about restaurants. Every reply suggested a bland high street chain. Someone even suggested McDonalds, I'm not entirely sure they were joking either. Depressing stuff.

[Prufrock]

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So good I can forgive them serving food on slates!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

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So good I can forgive them serving food on slates!

That is unforgivable, as bad as chopping boards

[Bruce Rioja]

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So good I can forgive them serving food on slates!

That's you on the list. Serving food on anything other than a plate/bowl isn't forgivable under any circumstance. Read also - serving drinks in a fecking jam pot.

[Prufrock]

It all comes on one big slate but they have plates you can then put it on if you ask (which I do of course).

Worth a lessening of principles I promise you. The best chicken (it's sous-vide - whatever that means) I've ever had and at less than a tenner a head.