Jamsie
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2. I think your maths may be way off Rooster, it doesn't need a majority to win, it just needs to receive more votes than any other. If a thousand restaurants were nominated and it only got 30 votes, if the next highest score was 29 then it wins by being the most popular.
That would be a majority... 30 is greater than 29. So that's a majority. Hello?
Drunk? Had something a bit stiffer? If you don't like the people here or the points made simple solution. Leave.
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1. Calm down dear it's just a list, we seem to go through this scoring crap on here every year
Ummm... No? Besides, if it happens every year that would seem to be a problem...
2. I think your maths may be way off Rooster, it doesn't need a majority to win, it just needs to receive more votes than any other. If a thousand restaurants were nominated and it only got 30 votes, if the next highest score was 29 then it wins by being the most popular.
That would be a majority... 30 is greater than 29. So that's a majority. Hello?
3. I've eaten at el bulli and it is the greatest thing ever, la la check me check me, i went, are you checking my wickedness, behold me. It was lovely though, i can see why it is always up there, i'm so very tired, so so tired, i think i'm going to go home, why did i add point 3 it wasn't needed, i guess i just wanted to tell someone, the goons here would never appreciate it, christ what am i doing wasting my career in this place, i could have another 30 years of this, i'm definitely going home,timewasting tits
Drunk? Had something a bit stiffer? If you don't like the people here or the points made simple solution. Leave.
I was talking about my job and this office not this internet forum.
People in my office are time wasting tits, i would never say that people on here were timewasting tits. Never. I would more likely say they were Pedantic P..........
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1. Calm down dear it's just a list, we seem to go through this scoring crap on here every year
2. I think your maths may be way off Rooster, it doesn't need a majority to win, it just needs to receive more votes than any other. If a thousand restaurants were nominated and it only got 30 votes, if the next highest score was 29 then it wins by being the most popular.
3. I've eaten at el bulli and it is the greatest thing ever, la la check me check me, i went, are you checking my wickedness, behold me. It was lovely though, i can see why it is always up there, i'm so very tired, so so tired, i think i'm going to go home, why did i add point 3 it wasn't needed, i guess i just wanted to tell someone, the goons here would never appreciate it, christ what am i doing wasting my career in this place, i could have another 30 years of this, i'm definitely going home,timewasting tits
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BTW, Jamsie, I didn't think your post made you sound like a pretentious gimp - does that make me a pretentious gimp too!
Sorry to be the one to break it to you
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How comes a wildly-oversubscribed restaurant loses 500,000 euros a year ? It should be able to charge enough to make a healthy profit, no ? Why does it not open for more months each year so that more money comes in and takes in into profit ? What is it about the dynamics of running a restaurant am I missing here which explains the losses ?
Because they don't try to get every penny out of the customer.
They could charge far more but they choose not to.
The prices the set aren't so high that they exclude all but the richest.
And they choose to spend more time developing, experimenting and coming up with new things than turning out the food, so it's only open 6 months a year. It's a choice.
When i went a few years ago it was €150/£100 for the 27 odd courses which compares very favourably with London, they filled my cava about 6 times and charged me once, and they wine they recommended from that region was €30
It was brilliant
i've read this email back and realised what a pretentious gimp i sound for which i apologise.
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They'll give Ducasse 3 because they are up his backside
Well that one was a bit easy wasn't it
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Thanks David. This is quite interesting from today if you have time: http://www.bloomberg.co.uk/apps/news?pid=20601040&sid=aXBCWvM.o1eA
Iron Chef rules
Allez Cuisine!
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Mustn't give in to Michelin speculation
Mustn't start
Not again
Please no
Oh go on then:
They'll give Ducasse 3 because they are up his backside
Hibiscus to go to rising 2*
Same with The Square rising 2*
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Marina gave it a bit of a shoeing in today's metro
She never round here no more
Bet you are still lurking though
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I went to a Tapas bar that's just opened on Goodge Street last night. The guy in the kitchen is the guy from the Moro stall on Exmouth Market, he's a good guy and really knows his food.
They're going for a reasonably quiet opening with not too much publicity so they can get up to speed without any pressure/hype but from what i had it was pretty good already, we had escabesche of mackerel, pork & oxtail meat balls and a tremendous beetroot dish.
Most of the dishes are from £3-£7 so decent value meaning you can pick away and eat and drink all evening, he said they were going for a tapas bar rather than a tapas restaurant thing and reckoned the charcuterie was well worth getting involved with.
The wine list was worth a look too.
Anyway i liked it and if you disagree i know people OK?
That's all i'm saying.
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What kind of indian are you looking for?
Are you looking for high end Michelin stuff? Or do you want something more mid-level?
May favourite has been Rasoi Vineet Bhatia, haven't been for a while, but has always been superb when i have been.
If you're oldman is a spurs supporter perhaps you'd like a meal that was alright for the first 42 minutes then just fell apart after that?
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I went for the set lunch about a month ago in the posher side of the restaurant
I had a scallop and pea salad starter which was beautiful and for main a skate with a beure blanc & beure noire sauce.
Dessert was superb peach concoction with what looked like a hairy troll on the top.
I thought the cooking was superb, and some of the a la carte stuff looked excellent, but you are right that the bread thing was annoying, not being offered any bread was a bit of a miss as it wasn't the largest of lunches so some bread would have really helped.
I heard apparently they do provide bread if asked but don't offer it if not requested.
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For christ sake take this discussion offline and keep it underground, don't you know tescos, Boots, Starbucks, Next and Top Shop have people who monitor channels like this to see if there are any places they have missed in their quest to make every high street in the country the same as every other one
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I went to Hibiscus for lunch yesterday and thought it was absolutely superb, best i've eaten in London in the last couple of years.
I'd go for there instead of Tom Aikens for lunch then Marcus Wareing in the evening which is more opulent but more traditional for the evening meal
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I think a problem with it may be expectations, especially at a place like el bulli when you've heard so much about this best restaurant in the world, when you walk into it what are you expecting from the place? Is it to be floatted on dry ice to your table and have the dessert course descend from the ceiling.
I remember the first time i ever went to a 3* restaurant (i had never been to any 2*) i was expecting something above and beyond food, and on leaving i was slightly disappointed with the meal because my expectations had been so high. On looking back i realised every single dish of the meal had been very good and some exceptional but the problem was with what i was anticipating.
When i went to el bulli i tried to go with as blank a canvas as possible and just let the meal happen and see what came. We were lucky in that our waiter was superb and the interaction and fun was one of the best parts of the meal (OK it helped that Barca had won the champions league the night before).
In summary i think a moody server will ruin anyone's meal and that el bulli pushing boundaries will always have some courses that don't work and that no restaurant is going to be perfect no matter how much it has been garnered with praise.
P.S. I am trademarking that dessert descending from the ceiling idea
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Great photos Josh thanks for posting them.
I was waiting to see what this years menu would look like. i wonder how it will evolve into the autumn
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So what has changed at this place for it to be getting glowing reviews on here these days, it took a hammering when it first opened, is it a different chef or did it just take some time to bed down and get going?
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Think of the people judging though, chefs love to eat all offal and sheeps nads etc.
There's far less UK in the top 50 than before
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What was that cheese and pickle sandwich all about? Seemed very misguided. Hope he can do better in the next few courses.
I think the concept of 're-inventing' or 'deconstructing' British dishes is running out of ideas. It will reach the stage whereby a proper ploughmans or a simple steak and kidney will be served and everyone will hail it as post ironic cooking wth a hint of irony.
You could re-invent the reinvention, the classic wirthout a twist
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Im landing at Gatwick at 8.30pm on a Wednesday. Is there any chance of a decent meal in the surrounding area?
in all honesty it is unlikely, by the time you got out of passport control it would be 9:15pm would be too late to get into London and back, Croydon the nearest town has one good restaurant but is is a warzone in the evening and Brighton would be 10pm before you arrived so just that bit too far to get there and back.
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I'll go with that, what an utter load of crocs cock, if that's not because of Ducasse's sway elsewhere then something something and something else
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Oh good work Matthew
That takes care of the last half hour of my working day
Cheers
San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants 2010
in United Kingdom & Ireland: Dining
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Maybe you should of left that out... completely ruined your argument.
The funniest thing is that you went to an effort to find a definition. Not sure whether it's the effort or that you couldn't come up with a definition yourself. But thanks for enlightening us all.