I'm glad to hear the positive feedback about The Ledbury! I wasn't able to get a reservation at Gordon Ramsay; one of these days I'll make it over there. It seems to require a lot of advance planning, since it's such a small restaurant.

The only place I've been to where they left the bottle in front of me was L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Tokyo. I did take the opportunity to examine the bottle, but I didn't self-pour, ha! Wonder what they would have said had I done that!

I have made a 10:00pm reservation at RGR and been seated at 8:00pm before. Maybe worth a shot? Just depends if someone leaves early. Petrus is also another great restaurant in the Ramsay empire

My sister and her husband were just at Ledbury a few weeks ago and echoed the same positive experience I had with my wife during our honeymoon. They said dinner was fantastic - we did the set lunch menu.

Wow, did they call you and ask if you wanted to come early? Or did you ask them?

I called them to check.

I also tried this at Ledbury and Le Gavroche and ended up with very late meals, so a bit of luck is involved

I was just wondering if anyone had tried dinner at Tin Lung Heen in Hong Kong (at the Ritz on the Kowloon side) I am thinking of dinner there when I am in town, and just wondered if anyone had any experiences to share?

not been myself, but have read comments that suggest the yum cha is better than dinner

Thank you - I am not a huge dim sum fan, so the items on the dinner menu do appeal a bit more.

I'm late on reading the news that Michelin is coming to Bangkok. Any predictions for stars?

Had lunch here with my family about 6 months ago: mixture of dim sum and other menu items.

I thought that the food and service were superb. The "western style" of e.g. bringing out dishes one at a time was a bit irritating and came across as pretentious. We didn't manage to snag a windowside table, but still had amazing views.

Overall, really enjoyed it, and for lunch, it was decent value.

tb

Thank you! Appreciate your views.

Le Petit Nice, Marseille - 3 stars
 

We had Lunch at Le Petit Nice. The hotel/ restaurant is beautiful located with direct seaview.
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The restaurant is bright, but not really fancy.
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In fact it shows some wear and tear and is in need of a renovation.
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Therefor the view from our table was great, even if it was such sunny that I had to eat with my sunglasses.
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So so non-alcoholic cocktail:
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We took the Lunch-menu which is priced with 100,00 € per person. That was what we got:
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Nice start

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Good bread with seaweed.

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The oyster was very strong in taste, carpaccio was fine. My company didn´t like both and couldn´t even eat the oyster. Sad, but I doubled my experience....

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A fresh tatar with an interesting smoked flavour – I liked it, my company not. So I ate 2....

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This dish was one of the best tuna I ever had with a very nice and fresh sauce. Nevertheless it could have get some more attention in detail regarding presentation as you can see. As my company don´t really like raw fish I had 1 and a half.

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A solid dish.

Desert
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Over all a good one with fresh flavours, but not the greatest one of my life.
Funny was that it came with a beef jus on the side. I told them we don´t eat meat at the beginning. So they brought my company one without it, but obvious they couldn´t imagine that a male really don´t eat meat.

Post-desert
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Interesting in a positive way! Wasn´t fishy by the way....

Petit fours
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I liked the food, it was a enjoyable experience. Nevertheless I´m not sure if I would rate this place with 3 stars, it´s nearer on 2 stars in my eyes. The view on the sea is great, the restaurant itself could get some renovation. Service was attentive and professional. My company didn´t eat very much, as many dishes were raw and she found the kitchen too experimental.

Sushi Taro in DC for my birthday yesterday; had the kaiseki menu. It was quite nice, and deserving 1 star IMHO... but I actually like Kaz Sushi Bistro's sushi better (it's more creative and edgy; the Sushi Taro fare was super-fresh and with a great variety of fish, and was very well-done, but it was in the end "just" fish & rice). Worth the price and very good, anyway.

Alexandre, Nimes **
 

The restaurant of chef Michel Kayser holds 2 Michelin-stars and I found the menu interesting.
When we arrived and the gate opened I found one of the most special ways I ever took to a restaurant:
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After I parked the car we were greeted friendly and escorted to our table. The restaurant is furnished very nicely and on our table was a beautiful floral-decoration.
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We were the first guests, but it filled up quickly. Soon I had to learn that at the table next to us sat at least one moron. He was speaking to his cell-phone for a while, not the best manners.
After we got some cocktails (fruit-juices) they brought us this nice selection:
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As my company wasn´t too hungry we took the menu Nature Sublimée. The bigger menu must be shared by the whole table. Price for our menu was 82,00 € per person which is fair.
First we got bread and well-presented olive-oil:
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Very good Amuse Bouche:
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First course was “Floating island with truffles from Provence on Cevennes'boletus soup”
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This was a great and memorable dish! I would eat it again every minute, as the taste was so good. I can´t praise it enough!

More bread....
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The main-course was “« Tielle » from Sète, Lobster, squid and prawn tartlet,
Marinière sauce with Muscat from Château l’Ermitage
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Also a good dish!

For desert I had “Confit "Frecinette" banana in a kalamansi juice, Tonka seeds meringue, Coconut sorbet and foam”.
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Creative, very good – what else could you expect?

My company had “Chocolate lovers paradise cake“.
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As she already had enough I got another half desert..... It was great, even if I liked my desert even more, but this is personal taste.

Petit fours:
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I really enjoyed our meal, it was great food. At the way out Michel Kayser asked how we liked our meal and had a little chat. The 2-star rating is absolutely justified, I can only recommend the restaurant.

Wish I was there :)