Reading this post made me hungry.
A happy 40th to you!

By patricja on 10 Apr 2006 at 11:49 pm

I’m having that superexpensive sarnie this week I tell you. It’s got all my favourite ingredients in it. IF I’m brave enough. If not I’ll just nip into Pret on the corner of Victoria Station. My favourite Pret…
~Milady
xxx

By Milady de Winter on 11 Apr 2006 at 12:46 am

The millionaire’s sarnie was featured on ‘London Tonight’ tonight. Alastair Stewart, the veteran idiot, claimed it was delicious while his unsophistimicated co-anchor Some Woman complained about the smell. (Of the sandwich, not him)
I had Kobe beef in New York last year and it was nice, but not all that. (I wasn’t paying obviously)
I can’t believe you can’t make this sandwich yrself for a tenner. Seriously. I mean, what’s in it- Poilane bread- that’s a quid’s worth max, Foie Gras- won’t break the bank, posh brie- no more than two quid and about four ounces of beef. And something green, which would surely be optional in yr case.

What was yr 1966 bottle BTW?

By Jelb on 11 Apr 2006 at 12:58 am

My mate had a burger in LA that cost $5,000. He wasn’t paying:

“the most extravagant and expensive burger experience ever conceived.” This was the Fleur-Burger 5000, topped with truffles and a slab of foie gras. Concocted by chef Hubert Keller of Fleur de Lys at the Mandalay Bay Casino, the FleurBurger 5000 is named for its price tag, a cool $5,000.
http://men.style.com/details/features/full?id=content_4157&pageNum=1

Interesting to see a blind resto in the UK. There’s also one in Switzerland

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4529325

Is blind the new black? Enjoy.

By pieman on 11 Apr 2006 at 1:33 am

Jelb, you have spoilt the surprise - of course I plan to make the sandwich.

The wine is a Château Beau Site Bordeaux from the St Estephe region.

By fraser on 11 Apr 2006 at 7:46 am

Time for lunch:)

By Sigg3 on 11 Apr 2006 at 10:37 am

I quite like the look of that Dan le Noir. Not that look is quite the right word in this case, but you know what I mean. Let us know what it’s like if you go.

By Ant on 11 Apr 2006 at 10:43 am

Did you see that Eating With… show on BBC 2 last week with Tom Parker Bowles? There was a point in the show where he was enjoying a pork pie atop a windy hillock. For a brief moment I stopped hating him as he sang the praises of the humble pork pie. It was a disconcerting experience to be disarmed by such a disagreeable git.

By Blod on 11 Apr 2006 at 11:12 am

I missed that, but you’re quite right: the pork pie is a great cultural leveller.

By fraser on 11 Apr 2006 at 11:27 am

Sydney also has a version of the restaurant called ‘The dark side of Hyde Park”. I’ve been to go for a while but nobody else seems overly keen.

The blind waiters is a nice touch.

By Simon Hadfield on 11 Apr 2006 at 11:41 am

Dining in blackout conditions, eh? I can dig it, but I wonder how many extra napkins, bibs and/or eye-shields are provided. You know, for those who can’t get the airplane into the hangar without at least a glimmer of light.

By she-mantis on 11 Apr 2006 at 1:36 pm

If any claret (outside a first growth) has survived it’ll be a St Estephe. Bonne chance!

I have yet to read a review of Dans Le Noir which hasn’t commented on how foul the smoked salmon course is. Is it off, or just odd in the dark?

By Jelb on 11 Apr 2006 at 1:38 pm

What lovely presents Fraser, you must have some very thoughtful friends. However, I now cant stop thinking of black truffle mayonnaise.
I’ve got the River Cottage book and also the Green & Blacks (which I approve of because they dont plug their own brand through it).
On the subject of chocolate in recipies, an essential in my Chili Con Carne is at the final stages to stir in a bar of finely chopped Green & Blacks organic Bittersweet chocolate. Mmmm, watch it turn gravy-tastic. And dont forget the cumin.

By Sharyn on 11 Apr 2006 at 3:08 pm

does this pitch-black restaurant have any connection with british war food and the blitz?

By elvis on 11 Apr 2006 at 5:29 pm

You fucked the ‘4′ up.

By anamik on 11 Apr 2006 at 8:00 pm

God i love pork pies.

By discostu on 11 Apr 2006 at 8:11 pm

Dining in the dark

Restaurants are big on presentation, food that ‘looks nice’ seems to taste a bit nicer. So I’m intrigued by the idea of a restaurant where you eat in pitch darkness. From their faq page:
Once deprived from our main sense, the sight, w…

By UnorthodoxY on 11 Apr 2006 at 9:59 pm

Hellfire, I’ve been out with some rough birds, but none so bad that I had to take them to a pitch black restaurant.

By Yorkshire Soul on 14 Apr 2006 at 12:10 pm

The Green & Blacks cookbook has some great looking recipes in it. Yummy, yummy!

My dog turned her nose up at G&B’s the other day. I had left 2 large bags of Cadbury’s Buttons, a tub of M&S choc mini rolls, 3 bars of G&B’s milk chocolate plus 1 large bar of G&B’s butterscotch chocolate (very tasty and not too sweet, surprisingly) in a bag whilst I went to work. It was gathered together as presents to take to the US for friends.

She ate all the mini rolls, which required opening the top plus the two bags of Buttons but left all the G&B’s chocolate. This seems really suprising as the packaging is little more than wrapped paper. Needless to say, she suffered for her chocolate fest including (but not limited to) drinking loads of water.

By Rachel on 16 Apr 2006 at 2:00 pm

i like it very much.

By ??? on 17 Apr 2006 at 6:31 am

The best pork pies I’ve ever eaten came from D.W. Wall & Sons in Ludlow, if you’re ever in that neck of the woods.

By hungbunny on 17 Apr 2006 at 12:32 pm

Hmmmm - Pork Pies. Back in the days before I went veggie (hey, twenty years on it still works for me) it was the mixture of pastry and meat filling that got me. It seems to me that with super-large pork pies the balance between the two would be skewed to far towards the filling. (NB pork pies are one of the few things that I occasionally miss.)

By aardvark never on 18 Apr 2006 at 9:59 pm

Pork pies !! Yuck I m a veggie. But still sugary. Everything so sweet. Recieving 15 cards at 40 sounds great.
Anyways Happy Birthday! u foodie u recieved all the nice stuff. Feeling hungary.

By jack on 20 Apr 2006 at 1:57 pm

I am wayyy hungover and ate a Quarter Pounder from McDonald’s (I’m in Chicago, fyi). Pork Pie? Hmmm sounds gross but I’m sure it’s quite tasty.

Happy 40th!

By angie on 23 Apr 2006 at 11:57 pm

2 weeks later an no blog, I’m guessing you didn’t make it to sefridges.
They look a lovely set of pies though. Grats on the big 40.
If I remember you tried the civit coffee a while ago, is the weasle coffee any more of a taste explosion? Picked from weasle sick rather than civit poo, yum! I’m off for a cappuccino!

By phenoptix on 24 Apr 2006 at 9:01 am

Educate me - what kind of spice is ‘mace’?

By melf on 26 Apr 2006 at 3:01 am

Check out the spice encyclopedia for mace details.

By fraser on 26 Apr 2006 at 7:54 am

On the topic of large food - I saw this and thought of you…. you may already have seen it though…

http://www.pimpmysnack.com/projects.php

By Em on 26 Apr 2006 at 2:58 pm

Thanks! I wonder if it has any relationship to mace-in-a-can. Although “Hold it, I’ve got a close relative of nutmeg and I’m not afraid to use it!” doesn’t sound very scary.

By melf on 27 Apr 2006 at 3:29 am

So had a blast on your 40th birthday. Cards,pork pies and lot of food related gifts.
Belated happy 40th to you!!

By Maysa on 07 Jun 2006 at 9:50 am

Man, you must have had the biggest grog bog after eating that. I can’t believe anyone could chow down on such big pies.

By PSP on 22 Jun 2007 at 3:15 pm