I’m
going to be 40 this year… senility has already started to set in… forgetting to
take my camera on a trip to L’Enclume
has got to be the start of a slippery slope.
What
follows are pictures taken with my phone - normally I wouldn’t want to post photos
that do not do the food justice but I like to record the progression in the
food and the seasonal changes of the many visits I have made to L’Enclume over
the years (for some stunning pictures of the menu, check out Stephen Perez’s flickr
– here)
Of
the snacks the standouts were the dim sum-like Game dumpling and the Crispy
chicken, squid, redcurrant – a squid ink wafer and emulsion with crispy
chicken skin, chicken liver parfait and, the star ingredient, a redcurrant
gelée.
Once
again, the Artichoke with goat’s cheese,
tarragon, stout vinegar and malt was my favourite dish however the new Hake with crab and pine, leek, celeriac and
sorrel was a close second – as you'd expect, the hake, enrobed in fat, was beautifully
cooked but, for me, it was the ingenious injection of acidity from a tartly sweet
reduction of Granny Smith apples, sorrel and wild ramson capers that made
the dish sing.
Oyster pebbles
Game dumpling
Crispy chicken, squid, redcurrant
Smoked eel with ham fat
Raw scallop and caviar
Creamed turnip, Tunworth, lamb’s tongue
Bread
Baked squash, Maran egg, nasturtium, chestnut, goose leg
Valley venison, charcoal oil, mustard and fennel
Butter poached lobster, parsnip, scurvy grass and black
radish
Artichokes with goat’s cheese, tarragon, stout vinegar and
malt
Hake with crab and pine, leek, celeriac and sorrel
Penny Bridge Dexter, creamed kales, carrot and mead
Apple and rosehip tart (scoffed
without a pic, get me!)
Almond, pear, anise hyssop
Beetroot slate, apple marigold and cobnut
Caramel, poached quince, walnut and perilla
Cornets
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How come you haven't provided your usual disclosure information for this meal?
ReplyDeleteOversight, I'll whack it on tomorrow... But, rest assured, I paid... Always do!
DeleteYay! Great photos. Thanks for sharing xx
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