Ambassade...

[Marlyn4k]

After a front page splash in Restaurant Magazine and this comprehensive spread in caterer, has anyone been to Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex's new restaurant?

My understanding is that the daily set lunch for £30 is not written down anywhere but offered from the front of house memory each day (which is just a little different for a top end restaurant). I'm not clear what the dinner menu arrangement is - 3 courses for £65 or choosing from an individually priced a la carte each evening?

Any reports?

Edited July 21, 2008 by Marlyn4k (log)

[sunbeam]

After a front page splash in Restaurant Magazine and this comprehensive spread in caterer, has anyone been to Jean-Christophe Ansanay-Alex's new restaurant?

My understanding is that the daily set lunch for £30 is not written down anywhere but offered from the front of house memory each day (which is just a little different for a top end restaurant).  I'm not clear what the dinner menu arrangement is - 3 courses for £65 or choosing from an individually priced a la carte each evening?

Any reports?

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I liked the way the Restaurant Mag link above took me to diabetic cookbooks on Amazon while another link, since disappeared, went to a Tupperware boxed set. Then a refresh of the page made it all work normally again

Something not quite right in the bulletin board's engine room I suspect

No I havent been to l'Ambasade yet

S

Edited July 21, 2008 by sunbeam (log)

[Marlyn4k]

The only link I put in was to the article in caterer which was removed.....

[Gary Marshall]

there be reviews on here somewhere.

[sunbeam]

The only link I put in was to the article in caterer which was removed.....

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Must have been removed or changed between my refresh.

Shame cos i wanted that Tupperware!

S

[Roger le goéland]

there be reviews on here somewhere.

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Indeed: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=116677

Didn't know he was cooking with one hand only! That is quite remarkable. And he does seem to have put a lot of thought into the place.

Maybe I will visit after all.

[Scott]

yeah I've been.

food is quite technical, very modern french. the room is like an elegantly designed 1980's fantasy brothel, resplendent in plush purple tones and white leather.

wine list stoopidly expensive, and the food itself is very good.

the acoustics are poor, if only because the sound reduction from the soft finishes are so effective that it sounds like a morgue.

bottom line: super expensive, super ambitious and well crafted. ALA Carte is prob £70 for 3 courses, a set 5 course degustation for £65 and 7 courses for £90

[sunbeam]

 

the room is like an elegantly designed 1980's fantasy brothel, resplendent in plush purple tones and white leather. 

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How do you know? Is it your fantasy brothel perhaps! I'm not sure anywhere can be 'resplendent in tones' btw

S

Edited July 25, 2008 by sunbeam (log)

[Scott]

 

the room is like an elegantly designed 1980's fantasy brothel, resplendent in plush purple tones and white leather. 

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How do you know? Is it your fantasy brothel perhaps! I'm not sure anywhere can be 'resplendent in tones' btw

S

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well you let me know what you think when you go, and we can discuss.