I Love The Fat Duck

Well it’s been a bit of a super foodie week this week. I went to ‘The Fat Duck”. It was amazing and I’m not just saying that because you’re supposed to, but because it actually was.

I don’t eat in lots of three Michelin star restaurants, far from it but I’m not sure every three star michelin restaurant experience would be like this one.

At The Fat Duck they have an uncanny ability to make you feel at home, from the minute you walk in you feel at ease, they’re friendly, not something I expected and even when the theatre begins, it’s almost like it’s all a little tongue in cheek.

14 courses and I can could proudly recite all their ingredients, I listened, you’re literally told a story, you do listen because no one else in the country cooks and creates like he does so it’s the least you can do.


The best dish for me, was without a doubt the ‘Sounds of the Sea’, vegetable and seaweed foam – sea, tapioca and baby eel – sand, seaweed and sea pods, and the most mouth melting cured mackerel, yellowfin tuna and halibut. All raw and all an absolute delight and all eaten while listening to ‘the sounds of the sea’ through the ipod delivered to your table in a shell. The snail porridge is as good as reported, the Mock Turtle Soup a little weird but if I’m there, I’m eating it and I’m eating it all. The pigeon breast with blood pudding and confit of umbles was a treat for someone with a rich palate and adventurous tastes, but even as someone who will pretty much try anything, the pigeon heart is not something I would be in a hurry to try again.

Mock Turtle Soup (c.1850)

Snail Porridge

I thoroughly enjoyed the meal and truly believe it was worth every penny.  I even left full and a little pissed and a little further educated in the wonderful and weird world of Heston Blumenthal’s cooking and for that I am truly grateful.