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The finest restaurant in England
Jan. 19th, 2006 03:35 pmThere are restaurants that you go to when, of an evening, you feel it would be nice to have somebody else grill the steak, mash the potatoes and boil the peas for you.
There are restaurants that offer preparations you understand but wouldn't have had the patience to make of ingredients you've no idea where to acquire.
There are restaurants where you're no longer clear what's gone into the sauce served with your meal, save that it was a wonderful idea of the chef's.
And there's Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck, behind an unassuming stone frontage in the High Street of Bray. I went there on Tuesday with my brother, taking my return to England as an excuse for something we'd both wanted to do ever since news of the place burst upon the world in 2001.
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There are restaurants that offer preparations you understand but wouldn't have had the patience to make of ingredients you've no idea where to acquire.
There are restaurants where you're no longer clear what's gone into the sauce served with your meal, save that it was a wonderful idea of the chef's.
And there's Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck, behind an unassuming stone frontage in the High Street of Bray. I went there on Tuesday with my brother, taking my return to England as an excuse for something we'd both wanted to do ever since news of the place burst upon the world in 2001.
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