La Chaumiere

[Andy Lynes]

Jan Moir of the telegraph really loved it : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml...%2Fedmoir27.xml

Fay Maschler hated it : http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/html/food/ea...top_direct.html

So does any eGulleter know the truth?

[peterpumkino]

Please read your own site rather than pontificate to me. I asked the very same question (with the same reference to Jan Moir) about three days ago. Oh, and while you're at it, can you please answer my email which you promised to answer two days ago.

Thanks,

[Andy Lynes]

This wasn't directed to you personaly Peter, but to the wider eGullet audience. Your original posting was made on 30 July, 8 days before this one, when I was away on holiday. Due to the huge number of postings made on this site, it not always possible for me to keep up with everything, so I am sorry that I missed yours. However, my posting is made in light of Fay Maschlers just published review, which is strongly at odds with Jan Moirs.

So the question still stands for anyone that has visited the restaurant: do you agree with Moir or Maschler, or does the truth lie somewhere in between, as it so often does.

On your last point, I directed you to the help page of this site for the issues you raised in your e mail to me. If this has not resolved your problem, please use the Private Message facility on this site to send me a note and I will try to assist you further, as I have now deleted your original e mail.

[peterpumkino]

Good point especially as it's an expensive restaurant with a 'different' concept (sounds like a 'go now' situation as it could drop standard in the future once it gets popular).

[peterpumkino]

Thanks a million for your help.

[Andy Lynes]

Success!

(For everyone else who may be interested, Peter wanted a signature and an avatar and has now figured out how to do it, with a little help from my good self).

[Lord Michael Lewis]

Peterpumkino, you bear a striking resemblance to the blond member of tiger-trickery illusionist duo 'Seigfreid and Roy'.

[SamanthaF]

Peterpumkino, you bear a striking resemblance to the blonde member of tiger-trickery illusionist duo 'Seigfreid and Roy'.

I thought it looked more like Diddy David Hamilton

[Lord Michael Lewis]

Peterpumkino, you bear a striking resemblance to the blonde member of tiger-trickery illusionist duo 'Seigfreid and Roy'.

I thought it looked more like Diddy David Hamilton

Come off it, this guy is clearly huge.

[peterpumkino]

Well, I'm not gay, I'm not German and nor do I play with furry pussy's (oh, maybe I do).

Actually Diddy David Hamilton is more like it.

Mon frere Lord, you can laugh, you look like Carlos the Jackal!

I think that ALL contributers to this site should have to have their photo displayed by punishment of death (or at least a week in Wetherspoons) after all I would LOVE to see what some of them look like (Cabrales, Circeplum, Simon et al)!!!!

Come on cowards, show yourselves!!!!

[macrosan]

Peter, if you really saw some of us you would surely change your mind. This site would then have to be registered with Net Nanny and suchlike.

But if you choose to ignore this warning, and still foolishly believe that the reality cannot be worse than the imaginatory, then why not come along to one of the eGullet events, when all will (sadly) be revealed. The next is a Dim Summary on August 31 and that will be followed by a Banquet at Tayyab on September 10.

[Gavin Jones]

Well, I'm not gay, I'm not German ,... show yourselves!!!!

Easy with the exclamation marks, Peter.

[peterpumkino]

Macrosan, be careful I just might come along. Sounds like a fun evening - if I can't make it on the 31st (although I do like dim sum) then I'll certainly make it the next time..and thanks.