Fishermen’s Bourride (Provençal-style fresh seafood stew flavoured with Iranian saffron, Spanish garlic and fennel, thickened with egg yolk) from Mad About Sucre. It is one of the new dishes debuting on their Autumn/Winter savoury menu, joining a lineup which includes their Classic Slow-Cooked Oxtail with Burgundy Red Wine Sauce and…
French Foie Gras Linguine Aglio Olio from Mad About Sucre’s new summer menu. The peppery, garlicky and well-oiled linguine was zhup-ly wet with anticipation while elsewhere the delicate, gossamer-skinned cubes of foie gras deflate marvellously in your mouth, revealing their indulgently, lusciously gooey softness within. 4.1/5 Mad About Sucre 27…
Le Caillou from Mad About Sucre’s new summer cake collection – pecan nut, mandarin orange, Caribbean rum, milk chocolate pecan nut short bread. The slightly grainy pecan orb was nuttily assertive with a Bailey-esque creaminess, and sat its voluptuously buxomly self on a rich, indulgent chocolate rice-y cushion. At its…
Salmon Served Two Ways from Les Amis Restaurant – wild Scottish salmon served two ways with crunchy vegetables. The creamy, wasabi-tinged tartare was a textural hybrid of sashimi and mousse whilst elsewhere the salmon, nicely charred and roasty on the outside with a soft pink centre, goes limp in yielding…
Foie gras with eel from Les Amis Restaurant – combination of pan-seared foie gras and French river eel with citrus fruit compote and dashi. The soft, tender Chinese foie gras was visibly addicted to sweet sesame brittle treats, whilst elsewhere the mackerel-esque eel possessed a seductive, gentlemanly cigar smokiness and…