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Location: 5-7 Blandford Street, Marylebone Village. About halfway between Bond St. and Baker St. stations
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double0hilly, and I have met up for a reunion and good food. Our attempts at booking a restaurant for Friday night have proven that the London fine dining scene is alive and well. We end up at a place which still has room two days in advance, one I've been interested in trying. L'Autre Pied is the marginally less formal sibling of Pied-à-Terre*: fewer linens and harder walls being the most visible differences.
We have the tasting menu with accompanying wines, preferring lots of small samples to burdening any one or two dishes with the success of the whole meal. The sommelier doesn't bat an eye when I request whites in lieu of the scheduled reds, but doesn't think to add them to the list of what we drank at the end. The matches are intelligent, appropriate, well-thought out. A few of the wines are superb, but none of the pairings blow us away.
( Food and wine... )
Service was excellent and friendly, and they had no hesitations about dealing with any of our limitations. The quality of the food is good, occasionally excellent, occasionally minorly confused, but nothing was worse than decent. The atmosphere was convivial, the echoing of sound against hard walls enlivening without ever leading us to struggle to hear each other, although sometimes I needed to ask a waiter to repeat him or herself to hear them. In theory, they request the table back after two hours, but since we'd booked for eight pm, there was no problem loitering over our meal for at least three hours. I'd be happy to go back, but I'd be even happier to have my curiousity assuaged, and try one of those places which were already fully booked up days in advance.
* I ate there in 2007 withmirrorshard but don't seem to have written it up, any more than I've written up all the good meals with purple_pen. At the time of not-writing, I'm busy treasuring good memories. Later, I've just forgotten too many details.
C.,
double0hilly, and I have met up for a reunion and good food. Our attempts at booking a restaurant for Friday night have proven that the London fine dining scene is alive and well. We end up at a place which still has room two days in advance, one I've been interested in trying. L'Autre Pied is the marginally less formal sibling of Pied-à-Terre*: fewer linens and harder walls being the most visible differences. We have the tasting menu with accompanying wines, preferring lots of small samples to burdening any one or two dishes with the success of the whole meal. The sommelier doesn't bat an eye when I request whites in lieu of the scheduled reds, but doesn't think to add them to the list of what we drank at the end. The matches are intelligent, appropriate, well-thought out. A few of the wines are superb, but none of the pairings blow us away.
( Food and wine... )
Service was excellent and friendly, and they had no hesitations about dealing with any of our limitations. The quality of the food is good, occasionally excellent, occasionally minorly confused, but nothing was worse than decent. The atmosphere was convivial, the echoing of sound against hard walls enlivening without ever leading us to struggle to hear each other, although sometimes I needed to ask a waiter to repeat him or herself to hear them. In theory, they request the table back after two hours, but since we'd booked for eight pm, there was no problem loitering over our meal for at least three hours. I'd be happy to go back, but I'd be even happier to have my curiousity assuaged, and try one of those places which were already fully booked up days in advance.
* I ate there in 2007 with
mirrorshard but don't seem to have written it up, any more than I've written up all the good meals with purple_pen. At the time of not-writing, I'm busy treasuring good memories. Later, I've just forgotten too many details.
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