* The Ledbury (London)

Lunch visit to The Ledbury at the weekend, about a month after they were awarded their third star.

Hugely enjoyable 8 course tasting menu; they are still currently offering the full dinner tasting menu at a discounted £185 at lunch – by my reckoning that’s the cheapest 3 star tasting menu in UK (and probably cheaper than most 2 star as well!) .

For us, this was definitely up there with our favourite restaurants in UK (L’Enclume & CORE).

1. Chalk Stream Trout
2. Black Bream
3. Veal sweetbread
4. Turbot
5. Mushrooms from the cabinet
6. Jersey Beef
7. Lemon
8. Chocolate & Jerusalem Artichoke

Highlights were the sweetbread, Chocolate
and Jersey Beef main, however, every single course was a big hitter! Fish dishes were subtle, but absolutely delivered in complexity and vibrancy of flavours.

The Jersey Beef main in the pic is without a doubt the tastiest single course I have ever eaten and blew away one of our previous favourites (CORE’s Beef & Oyster).

Service was spot on, just the right level of formality, but fun, friendly and engaging!

by CertainMistake2456