London Wednesday

Wednesday was the day of the Board Meeting. So I trained off to Weybridge Tuesday evening and worked all day Wednesday.

I got back to the hotel about 6:30 or so and Doreen had made reservations at a place called Wild Honey at 8:00.

I started with a Chicken and Foie Gras Boudin Blanc, accompanied by a spring onion puree and wild mushrooms. Doreen had smoked eel with crisp boneless chicken wings and sweet and sour turnips. The Boudin was very soft and was a good combination of rich foie and chicken. Doreen's eel was absolutely great - almost any smoked fish is great. She will almost always order something if it has root vegetables included.

For the main course we had the beef ribs for two. The meat was done correctly - nice and rare in the middle, but with tasty brown bits on the outside.

They sell all their wines by the carafe here (usually a 250 ml carafe, sometimes a 325) which allows you to pair one wine per course.

With the appetizers we had a Jose Pariento Verdejo (A Rueda from Spain) wich was rather light for what we were eating, but was fine.

With the beef we had a Benjamin et David Declaux Cote Rotie. THAT matched about perfectly.

For dessert I had vanilla cheesecake with Scottish raspberries. Doreen had the Victoria Plum Cafloutie with Grated Pistachio. She substituted the Wild Honey Ice Cream for the Almond Sorbet. My cheesecake was great, and Doreen's cafloutie was, too. The oddest thing was that the ice cream came with some crushed honeycomb. I was expecting soft and waxy. It was crunchy and tasted of insects. I did not care for that at all.

The meal was excellent and enjoyable. One funny thing was that on the menu they marked dishes that were included in the chef's new cookbook.

We didn't buy it.