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Gary Marshall

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  1. obviously he's forgotten what happend the last time he tried to run several restaurants at once!
  2. Due to tony's posts, moby's pictures and a 'i'd be up for a trip there' comment from scott, it all became too much, and august sees the the marshall/friar roadshow hit cheltenham, very much looking forward to it...... cheers gary
  3. maybe they have improved, but my visit was probably the worst value, and indeed probably the worst, full stop dinner i've had in paris. http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showto...l=maitre+albert
  4. the wrong side of the pennines!!!!!
  5. MPW can't have been far off (though i've never heard him mentioned as the youngest star winner) wasn't he 27 when he got 3*?
  6. thom and culinary bear would be the boys to ask.... piccolino looked a good spot for lunch, just off albert square. can't vouch for the food, can tell you the drinks work. cheers gary
  7. have they done kitchen nightmares revisited yet? after all they've done it with location.../property ladder and grand designs. would be quite interesting to see if the places did change their spots.
  8. yes, ALC is available at lunchtime. no, it's just your imagination but you have to make hay when the sun shines, especially when you can't turn tables and have limited covers.
  9. secret is to have cheese first, wash it down perhaps with some desert wine and then desert will be a mere formality. gary
  10. something will have gone horribly wrong if i've not had that squid dish by friday! matt, two starters is a sensible strategy,if you didn't have the risotto/parmesan air last time you should really have that plus something else. a growing lad like you would be able to do 2 starters, main, cheese, desert no prob although there's plenty of amuses with the ALC. cheers gary
  11. house wine in my local £10. however might get a pleasant suprise if you order it, as earlier in the week a waitress was uncorking several bottles of house red for a big group and mistakenly opened a bottle of chateau palmer!
  12. i can't think of many restaurants, full stop. That charge £11 for house wine nowadays.
  13. and closed for 6-7 weeks too if anyone was thinking about going...
  14. what did you have then bertie?
  15. can't blame them though when from what i've seen the ledbury looks like a proper grown up restaurant rather than a concept/fusion/tapas-y sort that seems to dominate the openings of late.
  16. that's a shame, i was going to say you are welcome to join us! thom's coming too and knows the chef so hopefully we'll get something decent. and at lunch time hopefully the pots won't have been able to boil for too long cheers gary
  17. wasn't JBR also a consultant to chef! also?
  18. from what ramsay said about momma cherries in the times i got the impression he had no quarrel with her food, she was just disorganised. He helped her free up her time and organise the restaurant.
  19. i think that's a very good summation. wine list on the internet looks longer than the actual one, as does the sample menu. cheers gary
  20. the guardian restaurant reviewer is a veggie, how predictable. And they sent her to a place that doesn't have a vegetarian option whilst she might not find the bread exciting, i have tony's recipe and not only does it go well with parmesan butter and the like, it makes great chip butties!
  21. it was fine i think whilst the girls went shopping for wedding things the boys were left to wander round borough mkt and stay in the globe tavern for a little longer than expected (not my fault it went to extra time). Their fruli strawberry white beer went down very easily too! then back to friends who live a few paces from the wells for a reviving bottle of white and a more sophorific red, a quick change and then down to the wells were we'd sent the girls on ahead, and well trained that they are had already got a bottle of VC on the go. menu was short, not overly ground breaking, i wasn't sure if it was a pub restaurant or a restaurant to be fair but all sounded eminently eatable. i had carpaccio with parmesan and rocket which was decent if unspectacular not sure if was fillet beef though as it was quite marbled but tasty, and not quite being a 'northern portion' was quickly polished off. for main course i had confit duck leg on pomme puree with lentils. meat quite tender and it was a fairly wholesome dish, sauce was fine i was planning on cheese, but the 'selection from la fromagerie' as on the website was replaced by a selection of irish cheeses, for some reason i decided i didn;t fancy irish cheese so passed on that, and instead had some variation on carrot cake which was fine. Probably should have gone for the cheese but wasn't thinking clearly at that point. although was thinking enough to order a riesling desert wine that was very enjoyable. couldn't get excited by the wine list, all seemed very young and unexciting other than the champagne and desert wine we stuck to red burgundy about £35, can't remember the producer it was on the list as bourgogne pinot noir i think. As a local place it's fine but wouldn't travel far out of my way to go there. We had a very enjoyable evening, staff were decent (they noted who had ordered what which makes a pleasant change) and food all seemed competently cooked. Our share of the bill for 2 was £114. I was quite suprised how early everyone left, we were not exactly late in at 8.30, upstairs was full but come 11pm we were by ourselves. by 11.05 we were back at friends drinking a, with hindsight, unnecessary bottle of port. gary
  22. hmm - seems something wonderful is happening in the kitchen. took my mum & sister recently & had an astonishingly good night there. we had the roast chicken (partly chosen for the theatre – carved at your table etc.) which came with great truffle sauce & truffled potatoes apologies to the ivy – looks like I got it wrong ← my colleagues always have a poulet, i thought they'd stopped carving it at the table, but glad to hear that's not the case. last time i had it they had to take it back for a little longer in the oven, however i find the truffle/veal stock sauce over powering for my weak constitution so haven't had it for a while.
  23. apparently i'm going here next weekend, anyone been? any thoughts? cheers gary
  24. i really shouldn't have done given lunch at middlethorpe/races the day before but given a dull day i needed cheering up so i headed off to no3. although i toyed with the idea of some ALC dishes i was in comfort food mode so went for the white onion soup which was very good and my 'usual' pot roast chicken jus roti and pomme puree. it was just what the doctor ordered, the restaurant was full and buzzing by the time i left and i'll be back soom to try the new ALC which denis hopes will be up and running by the weekend. as an aside i sent a friend of mine to no3 for his wedding anniversary, his mrs had been watching hell's kitchen and wanted to go to a top place! as they are muslim i warned denis that they wouldn't be drinking and would probably stick to fish/veggie. Not only did they take this in their stride they remade stocks & sauces with no alcohol in them especially for them as virtually everything they make has alcohol in it somewhere. A good example of the professionalism of this restaurant. cheers gary
  25. ok i haven't tried some of these places but most are establised / recommended by trusted sources. further north.... seaham hall nr durham off the A1... black bull at moulton staddlebridge....mccoys at the tontine east witton.... blue lion ramsgill in nidderdale....yorke arms asenby....crab and lobster harome...star inn and to see how le gavroche should do it winteringham fields, winteringham (just over the humber bridge). and if you want to leave the countryside in leeds there is of course anthonys and number 3 york place. cheers gary
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