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An invitation to lunch at Caviar Kaspia was, once upon a <br> <br> time, an offer you simply didn't refuse. Providing, of course, that the bill was on someone else.<br> <br> Because caviar, smeared on blinis or piled high on baked potatoes, sure didn't come <br> <br> cheap. There may have been other things on the menu, but no one paid them much heed.<br> <br> This was all about lashings of the black stuff.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Caviar Kaspia's signature baked potato and caviar: ‘there are few better dishes on earth…only the price, at just under £150, <br> <br> is ridiculous'<br> <br> <br> <br> Caviar Kaspia popped her final tin about two decades back.<br> <br> And that site, hidden down a smart Mayfair mews, was <br> <br> taken over by Gavin Rankin (who used to be the boss), and <br> <br> transformed into the brilliant Bellamy's. It <br> <br> prospers to this day. Kaspia, on the other hand, went quiet.<br> <br> Until last year, when she reopened as a members' club in another Mayfair backstreet.<br> <br> But a £2,000 a year membership fee proved hard to swallow, <br> <br> meaning the doors were opened to the great unwashed.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Which is how we find ourselves sitting in a rather handsome - albeit near empty - dining room, lusciously <br> <br> lavish, under the stern gaze of a stern painting of <br> <br> a very stern man. The soft, crepuscular gloom is broken up by the glare of table lamps, indecorously bright, while a loud soundtrack of indolent, indeterminate beats throbs in the background.<br> <br> The whole place is scented with gilded ennui.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Our fellow diners are two young South Korean women of pale, <br> <br> luminescent beauty, clad in diaphanous couture. They don't speak,<br> <br> rather communicate entirely via camera phone.<br> <br> Pose, click, check, filter, post. Immaculate waiters hover in the shadows.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> We sip ice-cold vodka, and eat a £77 caviar and smoked-salmon Kaspia croque monsieur that tastes far better than it ought to.<br> <br> Next door, a large table fills with a glut of the noisily, glossily confident.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> We're looked after by a wonderful French lady of such effervescent charm <br> <br> and charisma that had she burst into an impromptu performance of ‘Willkommen',<br> <br> we would have barely blinked. Baked potatoes, skin as crisp as parchment, <br> <br> insides whipped savagely hard with butter and sour cream, are a study in tuber art.<br> <br> A cool jet-black splodge of oscietra caviar, gently saline, raises them to the sublime.<br> <br> Only the price, at just under £150 each, is ridiculous.<br> <br> But there are few better dishes on earth. I'd eat this every day if I could.<br> <br> But I can't. Obviously. That's the problem with caviar.<br> <br> One taste is never enough.<br> <br> <br> <br> <u><i>About £200 per head. Caviar Kaspia, 1a Chesterfield Street, London W1; caviarkaspialondon.com</i></u><br> <br> <br> <br> <u><i>★★★★✩</i></u><br> <br> <br> <br>  <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <strong><u>My favourite luxury dishes</u></strong><br> <br> Tom's pick of the best places to splash the culinary cash <br> <br> in LondonTom's pick of the best places to splash the culinary cash in London<br> <br> <br> <br> The Ritz<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Beef wellington sliced and sauced at the table (£150) and crêpes <br> <br> suzette flambéed with aplomb (£62): Arts de la Table is edible theatre at its most delectable.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>theritzlondon.com</b><br> <br> <br> <br> Otto's<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Come to this classic French restaurant for the canard or homard à la presse <br> <br> (£150-£220 per person); stay for beef tartare (£42), <br> <br> foie gras (£22) and poulet de bresse rôti (£190, <br> <br> two courses).<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>ottos-restaurant.com</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <u><b>Sushi Kanesaka</b></u><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Piscine perfection comes at an eye-watering £420 per person, sans booze.<br> <br> But this 13-seat sushi bar shows omakase <br> <br> dining at its very finest.<br> <br> <br> <br> <strong>dorchestercollection.com</strong><br> <br> <br> <br> Min Jiang<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The dim sum is some of the best in town. But don't miss the wood-fired Beijing duck (£98) - crisp skin first, then two servings of the meat.<br> <br> Superb.<br> <br> <br> <br> minjiang.co.uk<br> <br> <br> <br> Also visit my web site :: <a href="https://graddata.ru/user/bumpereel7/">ร้านดอกไม้หนองจอก</a>
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