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An invitation to lunch at Caviar Kaspia was, once <br> <br> upon a time, an offer you simply didn't refuse.<br> <br> Providing, of course, that the bill was on someone else.<br> <br> <br> <br> Because caviar, smeared on blinis or piled high on baked potatoes, sure didn't come cheap.<br> <br> There may have been other things on the menu,<br> <br> but no one paid them much heed. This was all about lashings of the black stuff.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Caviar Kaspia's signature baked potato and caviar:<br> <br> ‘there are few better dishes on earth…only the price, at <br> <br> just under £150, 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 <br> <br> mews, was taken over by Gavin Rankin (who used to be the boss),<br> <br> and transformed into the brilliant Bellamy's. It prospers to <br> <br> this day. Kaspia, on the other hand, went quiet. Until last year, <br> <br> when she reopened as a members' club in another Mayfair backstreet.<br> <br> <br> <br> But a £2,000 a year membership fee proved hard to swallow, meaning the <br> <br> doors were opened to the great unwashed.<br> <br> <br> <br> Which is how we find ourselves sitting in a rather handsome - albeit near empty <br> <br> - dining room, lusciously lavish, under <br> <br> the stern gaze of a stern painting of a very stern man. The soft, crepuscular gloom is broken up by the glare of table <br> <br> lamps, indecorously bright, while a loud soundtrack <br> <br> of indolent, indeterminate beats throbs in the background.<br> <br> <br> <br> The whole place is scented with gilded ennui.<br> <br> <br> <br> Our fellow diners are two young South Korean women of pale, luminescent <br> <br> beauty, clad in diaphanous couture. They don't speak, 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 <br> <br> croque monsieur that tastes far better than it ought to.<br> <br> Next door, a large table fills with a glut of the noisily, <br> <br> glossily confident.<br> <br> <br> <br> We're looked after by a wonderful French lady of such effervescent charm and charisma that had she <br> <br> burst into an impromptu performance of ‘Willkommen', we would have barely blinked.<br> <br> Baked potatoes, skin as crisp as parchment, insides whipped savagely hard with butter <br> <br> and sour cream, are a study in tuber art. A cool <br> <br> jet-black splodge of oscietra caviar, gently saline, raises <br> <br> them to the sublime. Only the price, at just under <br> <br> £150 each, is ridiculous. But there are few better dishes on earth.<br> <br> I'd eat this every day if I could. But I can't. Obviously.<br> <br> That's the problem with caviar. One taste is never enough.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> About £200 per head. Caviar Kaspia, 1a Chesterfield Street, London W1; caviarkaspialondon.com<br> <br> <br> <br> ★★★★✩<br> <br> <br> <br>  <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> My favourite luxury dishes<br> <br> Tom's pick of the best places to splash the culinary cash in LondonTom's pick of the <br> <br> 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 suzette flambéed with aplomb (£62):<br> <br> Arts de la Table is edible theatre at its most delectable.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> theritzlondon.com<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 (£150-£220 per person); stay <br> <br> for beef tartare (£42), foie gras (£22) and poulet de bresse <br> <br> rôti (£190, two courses).<br> <br> <br> <br> ottos-restaurant.com<br> <br> <br> <br> Sushi Kanesaka<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 dining at its very finest.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> dorchestercollection.com<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 <br> <br> 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> Feel free to visit my web page - ขาย wine - <br> <br> http://hsecotour.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=159819
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