Dinner at Dinner

When The Boyfriend called and said ‘don’t repeat anything I’m about to say, just listen and say yes or no’ I thought he was about to reveal his secret identity as a MI5 agent and that I was to whisked away like a bond girl on thrilling chase through London…  but alas it turned out he just wanted to check ifＩwas free for dinner on Wednesday because he had found an available table at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, which was meant to be booked up until July!

Fast forward a week and here we were at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 15 minutes late for our table.  I was expecting the front house to tell us that we only had 1 hour and 45 minutes left for our booking but instead she was all smiley and showed us to table next to the window.  I whispered to The Boyfriend ‘don’t we have a time limit on our table?’ The Boyfriend looked at me unconvinced and said ‘hopefully not’.  I was impressed already as a lot of restaurants these days only give you a two hour slot for dinner but Dinner allowed you to enjoy your meal at your own pace – great!

Dinner is one good looking beast of a restaurant.  The mellow yellow lighting bouncing off the high ceiling looked classy and for my money, very masculine – apart from the jelly mould lights on the wall that is.   I loved the complete opened kitchen on show.  You could see the chefs working away calmly and neatly nothing like other commercial kitchens I have seen in action.

 

Starters

 

The menu was simple and yet exciting.  We decided to share a starter, so we could have two desserts later.  I know a lot has been said and blogged about the meat fruit dish already but it was simply the most beautiful dishes I’ve ever seen.  Words couldn’t possibly describe how amazing this thing was… so you better get down there and try it yourself!

 

Main

 

As soon as we turned to the main we couldn’t take our eye off the Wing Rib of Black Angus, so we asked the waiter how big the steak was… and he brought one to show us and it was MASSIVE!  So there was our main decided!

 

 

 

The steak didn’t fail to impress.   The boyfriend had managed to ‘capture the moment’ with the pic below.  Now I wasn’t about to include this pic for obvious  vanity reasons, but looking through our snaps,  a picture of me gorging my face on the beef rib without a care for the expensive WHITE designer dress probably shows how friggin good that beef was!

 

Accompaniments of triple cooked chips, mushroom ketchup and the red wine sauce and even the side order of carrots were also delicious.

 

Dessert

 

Since we heard so much about the Tipsy Cake we decided to order one and another dessert later (the tipsy cakes take 30 minutes to cook so it’s better you order it with your main).

 

We also ended having Brown Bread Ice Cream along with the tipsy cake.  The ice cream was really nice (though I wasn’t keen on the yeast caramel base) but the star was of the show was definitely the tipsy cake.  The cake looked perfect but it was the smell that melted me away.  I thought I was in love!

 

To top the wonderful meal we ran into head chef, Ashley Palmer-Watts on the way out and he even invited us for a photo – OMG!

 

Rating: 11/10