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Post Subject: Food in LondonPosted by de charlus on: 8/6/2013

There is that, but I cannot recollect having been to a 3* restaurant and it having been crap. That said, whilst all that precision and pretty presentation is all well and good, the sort of food that I now enjoy tends to be of the comfort variety, or unmolested by chefs determined to bend ingredients to their will instead of letting them sing of themselves. A friend of mine is head chef at Balthazar London - French bistro-style food done rather well - and I can heartily recommend that, especially as my best pal runs the bar there with great skill and invention, the "legendary" Brian Silva. Gordon Ramsay - the real Gordon Ramsay, at Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea - has never been less than stunning on my many visits. Back to comfort food though; there's a pub just off Berkeley Square called The Guinea Fowl, which does pies - steak and kidney, steak and mushroom etc - with new potatoes really, really well, and there's also Rules in Covent Garden, game specialists who have their own estate and really do a stunning, ultra-traditional take on classic British food. Also, there's the Pollen St Social, St. John, Hedone, The Ledbury, but best of all, IMHO, are The Fat Duck at Bray (beautiful location too) for classic fine dining, and Dinner, by Heston Blumenthal, which is more on the modern side of things. I defy anyone to get a bad meal out of any of those restaurants. One thing that you might do is go for lunch at Home House; it's a members club, of which I am one, but the restaurant operates as a restaurant at lunchtimes; as dining rooms go, there's simply nowhere more exquisite in town, the frescoes and paintings beautifully hung on the towering walls. Oh, and the wine list is beyond reproach, since I created it.

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