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review of London French restaurant La Dame de Pic by Andy Hayler ...

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La Dame de Pic is the first London outpost of the growing Pic restaurant empire.

The list featured labels such as Zelen Guerila 2015 from Slovenia at £39 for a bottle that you can find in the high street for £13, Cotes du Rhone Domaine du Fontbonau 2012 at £65 compared to its retail price of £18, and Condrieu Les Grands Chailles Domaine de Monteillet 2014 at £89 for a wine that will set you back £37 in a shop.

The shellfish were sweet and beautifully tender, the carrots good and the bouillon subtle in flavour, so did not distract from the lovely langoustines (17/20).

The mushrooms were excellent and the cheese filling very good, though the pasta was a touch denser than I recall from the version at Pic (16/20).

The ingredient quality was shown nicely in the excellent langoustines and chicken, and my main caveat is that some of the dishes seemed to be trying a bit too hard in terms of complexity and the number of flavour elements they were combining.

Sea Salted Caramel Bonbon - Luxury Chocolate from Melt Chocolates

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The order was delivered speedily but I was somewhat surprised at the size of the box when it was received as a previous order (quite a while ago) of the same amount of chocolates arrived in a very large box and was double packed inside another even larger box.

I really do hope that you reconsider your packaging as I will not be placing any more orders unless I am confident that they will arrive looking as good as they do on your website."

"First rate service and delicious chocolates; the original box of went missing in the post and they were extremely prompt in sending out a replacement with an extra bag of chocolates as a gesture of goodwill.

It did arrive about five days later which was fine" "Had a lot of difficulty with login issues on the website and had to call the store 5 times in order to find someone who could cancel my subscription.

The second place I rang was very good, very polite and knew the items that I wanted, sadly that order got lost in the post but she did send another one that arrived in two days."

Luke's Dining Room, Cookham Dean, restaurant review - Telegraph

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I took O, a friend no older than the chef, just in case there was new terrain in the young palate that I may not be aware of.

But there was also a very intense fig jam going on underneath, and the combination was genuinely interesting – two tastes paired not so one could foreground the other, but because, equally strong, they harmonised into something more powerful still.

Poor man's caviar – little black lumpfish eggs and those beautiful translucent salmon ones – danced about the plate.

Perhaps, if you were to be wildly critical, you might say the mushrooms were a tiny bit salty, which from a chef who's not yet 20 makes you wonder what his palate's going to be like by the time he's ancient.

Try the pan-fried venison loin with braised red cabbage (£23), before mulled wine and pear jelly with Chantilly cream and a sablé biscuit (£6.50) Jeremy Ashpool and his young kitchen team are a hit with locals, not least for their £16.50 three-course lunch menu.

Neo Bistro, London W1: 'This is uncharted territory for the branché ...

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Neo Bistro (the name references bistronomy 2.0, a bit more complex, often a lot more expensive) is also technically in Mayfair, not the rarefied environs of Mount Street, but gum-spitting distance from phone shops, sandwiched between a Spaghetti House and a branch of the bafflingly still extant Angus Steakhouse.

Neo Bistro is the baby of two pedigreed chefs, Mark Jarvis of Anglo in Farringdon and Alex Harper, ex of Fulham’s Harwood Arms; both did time in the starrier, stuffier Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons and Texture.

There’s a veil of savoury dashi jelly draped over heritage tomatoes; almost-burnt turnip with the pigeon; tendrils of black truffle scattered here and there.

Yes, I get they’re doing bistronomy, I get that they’ve loosened the fine dining corsets and are bravely venturing outside a London postcode starting with E.

• Neo Bistro 11 Woodstock Street, London W1, 020-7499 9427.

Seafood restaurant One-O-One in London - Review

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Instead, chef Pascal Proyart of seafood restaurant One-O-One decided it deserved a little bit of a make-over and created a special fish finger menu, available until 17th October 2015.

I was invited to try the 5 course Fish Finger Tasting Menu, each course a different, modern interpretation of the fish finger.

I must admit that I’ve always liked the good old fish finger (with lots of ketchup), so I was curious to find out what they had prepared for us.

And I loved that even the dessert – Eclair of pineapple, coconut & vanilla chantilly and rum Pina Colada sorbet – was inspired by the fish finger, being it a sweet one and without fish.

The tasting menu will be available until 17th October 2015, but also after that date I highly recommend trying this restaurant if you love seafood.

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