Taste of London: 1 / 1 bite

There's a lot of fantastic food on offer at the Taste of London – the biggest restaurant in the festival in the UK – and the biggest problem is knowing where to start. Here's a baker's dozen tips to help you plot your course

• Interactive: food festivals in 2011

The festival has its own currency, which you need to buy in advance or on site and used to pay for meals: £ 1 buys two crowns. Some ticket deals include crowns and can bring the total cost, if you're going to spend more than 20 euros (it is difficult not to), so let's see here, the prices and book tickets here.

Here are some of the dishes you can expect to find on taste with our recommendations star, and about what to expect from dining restaurants themselves.

Restaurateur / chef Alex Gauthier

★ Star dish: risotto of summer truffle, drop chicken JUS, parmesan crisps
• You may be delighted at the thought of another risotto in the first place, you begin to mourn the demise of this unctuous dish as soon as you start eating it

• Top Dog Deluxe: Strasbourg sausage hot dog, bacon, honey mustard / mayo sauce, golden soft and warm milk with pain

• Minty Pimm it sizzle – soft and fizzy fruit jelly Pimm in mint ice cream

• Grilled duck breast topped with sweet and sour sauce tamarind

• Green curry chicken with Thai eggplant with Thai jasmine rice.

• grilled tuna and a salad of mango with chili, lemongrass, fresh herbs, tamarind sauce

Restaurateurs / chefs Sam and Eddie Hart (who also own Spanish restaurants Fino and Barrafina)

★ Star dishes: roasted rib of beef cooked with a triple Hereford chips and Béarnaise
• With a lot of, well, a little faffy food in taste, some masterfully prepared as a source of juicy beef can be kind of nutrition you're after

• whitebait with tartar sauce

Restaurateur / chef Gordon Ramsay / Sean Burbidge

★ Star dish: Peas and mint mousse with cream cheese and pancetta goat
• Can not be easier, could not be more summer, this dish is the winner

• Braised pork cheeks with cream potatoes and sage sauce, presented in the style of a mini plastic pot crock

• Strawberry and champagne soup with fromage Frais

Bocca di Lupo, (plus Gelateria, Gelupo), W1

Atmosphere: A wave of informal tapas-style Italian restaurants to open in recent years, offering tables and a meal at a long bar (which makes the Walk-Up can be even on the busy lunch hour). Located in the heart of Soho, its proximity to Shaftesbury Avenue makes it popular among the theater crowd.

★ Star dish: shaved radishes and celery salad with pomegranate pecorino and truffle oil
• In this beautifully dressed dish is easy enough to offer a good antidote to many of the richer food in taste, pecorino adds a satisfying bite

• Bianco di Bianchi, coconut yogurt, cottage cheese, cherry

• Cucumber, Hendricks and rose granite

Cuisine: Modern twist on traditional Indian cuisine

Fennel infused lamb chop with mint chutney

Chicken tikka pie with spicy berry compote

★ Star dishes: Octopus carpaccio with fried tomatoes slow datterini, capers and rocket
• The perfect balance of fresh octopus coast and super-sweet plum tomatoes punctuated with tiny sharp, and pepper with herbs

• Shrimp and Scallop Burger Scott

• strawberry shortcake with lavender posset Mayfield

The chef / restaurateur Alex Marks / Gordon Ramsay

• Jasmine and miso salmon, radish sprouts, Ponzi sauce

• Glazed veal calf white onion puree, rocket pesto

• Lemon cheesecake, black sesame, Earl Grey syrup

Cuisine: Modern British and European

★ Star dish: Cru chocolate crackle Virunga pot with raspberries
• Super rich with excellent depth of chocolate and raspberry flavor, playful inclusion of candy there makes this a great pud really moody

• Chilled Plum Tomato Soup with basil and mozzarella

• Thai-baked sea bass with fragrant rice

Atmosphere: Housed in the Royal Festival Hall, overlooking the River Thames floods in through the huge floor to ceiling windows, open space is large and bright in equal measure. There is a dining room and grill area, it's nothing to separate them, except for changes in furniture and various menus.

• Oil poached lobster, pink grapefruit, savory nuts, raisins, golden

• Pressed ham hock and confit chicken, tarragon mousseline

★ Star dish: warm smoked salmon Loch Var, lemon verbena jelly, pickled cucumber and sweet rye

This is an interesting dish, which paired a sweet rye bread with a big slab flavoursome smoked salmon was the second best dish to taste winning London restaurant of the festival.
• cotton candy with delight, strawberry mousse yogurt and macerated berries, Sicilian lemon basil jelly

The chef / restaurateur Colin Buchan / Gordon Ramsay

and European

• watermelon, feta cheese, proscuitto San Daniele with almond and pomegranate sauce

• charcoal lamb chops and salsa verde caponata

• Spicy cherry compote, lemon marscarpone, cellular and muesli

The chef / restaurateur Michel Roux Jr. (1991)

• lobster and truffle cocktail at Le Gavroche engraved glass

• White bean velouté with snails Hereford

• Ballotine chicken, marinated mushrooms and truffle sauce

• Braised beef with olives and polenta

Chef: Marcus Wareing (Friday)

★ Star dish: pork pie Gilbert Scott with pickles
• What could be better in the park, as part of the perfectly prepared pork pie with biscuits and appropriately funny pickles?

• Summer cullenskink – chilled leek and potato soup, smoked haddock

• Suffolk stew – lamb meatballs, lentils, barley and anchovy

• Strawberries and Cream Jersey

More Source:

Taste of London 2009 - Day 1
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