/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>Reservation for 1
watch this space

>>6644318
what kind of place is this? is it famous? will you miss your totally-just-a-colleague from work?
young, inquiring minds wish to know

>>6644341
It's a restaurant in the basement of a nice hotel. Seems to be quite popular with lots of good ratings and reviews online. I picked it because the tasting menu sounds and looks interesting as well as tasty. Apparently holds a number of AA rosettes though I don't know what Alcoholics Anonyomous is doing rating restaurants. He is definitely just a colleague and while I think it is a shame he won't get to try it, I will be OK on my own!

>>6644318
>Reservation for 1
You need a bloody boyfriend.

>>6644316

Tell me you'll be posting pics. I enjoy the galleries from your food porn excursions.

>>6644464
i have an internet boyfriend, maybe ill print out a picture of his face and put it in the chair opposite so its like we're on a date

>>6644484
of course I'll be posting pics

maybe even live

>>6644316
>"burnt"

>>6644528
> extremely well done

>>6644496
>i have an internet boyfriend
Don't you need to be 13 and in 1999 for this to be viable?

>>6644663
~ love ~ is all you need

>>6644719
Don't you mean ~ AOL ~?

>>6644496
>internet boyfriend
>not a real boyfriend
Romance would just get in the way of the food.

>>6644724
Who even uses AOL still?

are you travelling to bath just for this restaurant?

Borneo, I always liked your L'Enclume threads. You're a pretty skilled shill, because I plan to definitely eat there someday when travel is a little more afforadable.

If you don't mind my asking, what are you out here in California for? Would you be interested in having someone to dine with?

>>6645280
Just kidding this place is in Bath

>>6644316
Which dish are you most looking forward to or perhaps most interested in?

>>6644496
>maybe even live
You should try periscope, I would 100% tune in for that. Girl sits at the table of a fine dining establishment, all alone, talking to her phone and streaming everything.

>>6645280
I am open to dining with like minded anons, however I am in the UK, not California

>>6645289
The duck liver with eel and the Roquefort and pear. They sound like really unique and interesting combinations, I can't wait to see how it tastes.

>>6646213
I think I'd rather sit in peaceful silence if I'm on my own

>>6645183
Nah I'm moving here

>>6644737
That's the spirit.

I showered and dressed nice ish for this

>>6644496
>maybe ill print out a picture of his face and put it in the chair opposite so its like we're on a date

What are you, gay?
>hey can you meet me [place] at [time]
>sure
>yaydate
OR
>no
>try another time, make reservations then instead
>repeat until yes

>>6645146
I still use AOL Instant Messenger if that helps.

This is where all of your discretionary funds go?

>>6646957
He lives in a different country so it's a bit more complicated than that

>>6646961
This and buying foods on the internet, yes.

>>6646975

wow borneo you got an internet boyfriend

who's the lucky guy

>>6646996
some dude i met on arcanine many many many years ago

A light lunch

Gotta save stomach space for tonight

>>6647167
Your nails are absolutely disgusting. You ruined a picture of ice cream by overshadowing its presentation with your filth.

You should feel bad for what you have done.

>>6647167
Looks like average oreo ice cream in a sugar cone.

>>6647193
Sorry mum

>>6647195
Perfect on a hot summer's day

>>6647193
I don't see what is wrong with those nails? I would love to have those since I bite the shit out of mine.

Hiya Bornieboo.

I wish I were a little Asian girl so that I can take pictures of my food and no one will think it's all that strange to do. Alas! It will never be.

I'm cooking up some frogmelon today. Do you like it? How do you cook yours?

>>6647260
Cokenail!?

Can you pick me up an eel, duck liver, and pickled rhubarb for take out? Thanks Born

>>6647271
If you dress smartly and pretend to take a lot of notes they will think you are a food reviewer

I didn't know you cooked frog melon, I've always enjoyed it raw chilled or blended with a spot of sugar and frozen to make a sorbet

>>6647298
Will do m8

>>6646975
>He lives in a different country

>you can afford to do something fancy like this place
>can't just forego a trip to another fancy place to buy him a plane ticket

>>6647395
>raw frogmelon
Isn't it bitter as all fuck?!

>>6647422
im good thanks

>>6647423
not at all, its just like a mild canteloupe and they're the only melon that consistently tastes good in winter

>>6647524
Maybe we're talking about two different melons...

https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peria_katak

>>6647553
ah you mean bitter gourd? I was thinking of piel de sapo

im not a fan of bitter gourd

>>6647575
>not a fan
Aw.

>>6647422
I don't think you understand long distance relationships honey.

>>6647260
>Britain
>hot

>>6647422
She wants to pretend she has a bf without having a bf. It is probably to shut up rl plebs who would harass her over the bf issue.

The entrance

Corner table for 1

Some bread and butter to start off

In hindsight I shouldn't have eaten so much of the bread

>>6648385
The glass was an onion and parmesan soup, very tasty

>>6648380
maitre d', may I have the saddest table for one?

>>6647698

It was like 30C last week, pretty crazy tbh.

>>6648385
Because your cankles need more bread and butter right?

Poached lobster with this super intensely lobstery jelly and mayonnaise, fennel and caramelized

Very tasty, except for the fennel

>>6648423
>86F
>hot

>>6648421
>>6648423
Yes

Yo Borneo! Do you eat at a lot of regular restaurants too or just save yourself for highly rated ones.

Do you find that highly rated restaurants are significantly better than your average (but with aspiration to be something bigger) place?

>>6648440

Hottest its been here for a long while.

>>6648432
*caramelized orange

Next up was an amazing poached and roasted duck liver with smoked eel, candied walnut and gooseberry jam

I had bits of jam in between mouthfuls of the liver and it made a nice contrast

>>6648457
I eat at lots of ordinary places but I only make a thread when I think it will be an interesting experience

On average, Michelin starred restaurants have been a lot better than regular restaurants in terms of quality ingredients and unique, tasty dishes

I don't eat out very often in the UK though so don't take my word for it

In Malaysia I think the reverse is true, I enjoy the foods from hawker stalls a lot more

Pan fried turbot topped with summer truffle and chicken skin which was amazing, with asparagus, chicken jus, onions and minted peas which is a combo I dislike

>>6648500
Talking to her is like talking to a lit. major about Shakespeare...shill shill shill

>>6648519
Whoops

>>6648525
>guacamole with peas maymay

>>6648500

So how long have you been in the UK then?

I've Never been to Malaysia but I lived In Bangkok for two years and loved the food culture there. It just amazed me how frequently you could stumble across a really cheap but amazingly tasty street food stand. I need to go back at some point, I miss the place.

Lamb loin and belly with aubergine puree and tomato stuffed courgette flower

The lamb was crusted with herbs that included mint and horseradish, I didn't like it. This course would've been a flop if not for the courgette flower
>>6648536
In this case it's peas with peas which I don't think is a meme anywhere

>>6648562
Close to 4 years now

The food cultures are probably the same, eating out is so ridiculously cheap and the variety is amazing. It's what I miss the most about home

>>6648606
>mashed babyfood peas with a garnish of peas maymay

>>6648606

Presentation is abysmal. And what is this grease/sauce they seem to be putting round everything?

Pear sorbet, Roquefort, celery and candied walnut

The cheese and sorbet went together surprisingly well, though I ran out of sorbet before I could finish the Roquefort so I abandoned the rest

>>6648635
Yeah this was the weakest dish by far

The sauce was meat jus from that particular meat

>>6648706
>delicious moldy cheese meme

Raspberry mousse and raspberry cream cheese with popping candy and candied ginger

The dry ice smoke was scented with ginger

I don't like ginger in sweets but this was otherwise a solid dish
When the table next to me was served this I could hear the popping candy while they ate

Pretty colours

>>6648732
Pop rocks are now haute cuisine.

I could not eat this much in a sitting. Do you have a 4th stomach?

Finally, a hazelnut and cardamom mousse in a crunchy chocolate shell

And a delicious chocolate sorbet

>>6648749
I thought this was a well composed dessert

I don't like spices in my sweets but this was alright

>>6648606
That eggplant blob is the least appetizing thing I've ever seen.

>>6648749
The sorbet looks like a turd. Same out as it is in.

>>6648732
>pop rocks
*sigh* I hate modern cuisine. Also cubes and spheres? This is just so tired.


How much was this OP?

>>6648746
I was full by the third course, had to loosen my top jeans button and basically power through the last few courses

Then power walked to the bathroom because the pressure in my stomach was forcing everything else out

>>6648766
>I was full by the third course, had to loosen my top jeans button and basically power through the last few courses

>Then power walked to the bathroom because the pressure in my stomach was forcing everything else out

Absolutely disgusting. No wonder you're eating out alone.

>>6648762
It tasted alright, like bbq charred
I agree the colour was ugly

>>6648765
What's wrong with those shapes, are they too mainstream now? It was £75

>>6648766
>Then power walked to the bathroom because the pressure in my stomach was forcing everything else out


TMI, I'm out. Done.

Goodnight everyone!

>>6648732
>popping candy
gross

dairy products should be smooth and creamy so you can shovel them into your mouth at an alarming rate

>>6648772
Everyone poops, it's the sad truth

>>6648775
>What's wrong with those shapes, are they too mainstream now?
It's so boring and uninspired. It's trendy and technical and done just to be trendy and technical. Style over substance. Also half of you foor was turned into paste, another fad that makes everything look like baby food.

Foods in geometric shapes is as hipster as square plates.

>>6647524
>im good thanks
Confirmed for not-real-boyfriend.

>>6647622
Actually I do. I was dating a girl from Europe, and as an Murrkkkafag we've seen each other for real once the entire time we've been together. Like I said, if the namefag can afford to eat at a fancy place like this, he/she/it can afford to forego eating at another fancy place to get a plane ticket.

I'm also jelly that I can't afford fancy shit like that. Yes, I know spoilers don't work on /ck/.

>>6647707
Well, that makes more sense.

>>6648766
>I was full by the third course
Do you never eat or something? These all seem like things that could be finished in ten bites or less, there's no way a normal person could get full that fast.

>>6648896
I think a lot of women with questionable lifestyles have long distance bfs so no one knows too much. They are compartmentalizing their lives. In truth their need for romance is very low but it gets people off their back.

>>6648385

How did they put that soup on the table without spilling it? That glass is as full as full can be.

>>6649122
gingerly

>>6648772
I think it's cute.

>>6649324
Nobody cares what you think, Borneo.

>>6648789
>>6648804
I like the shapes, I think they look nice and I like to cut into cubes and round things

>>6648896
We've met up a few times already, I'm actually going to stay with him for a few weeks this summer. I'm just too lazy to explain details of my boring life on a Tibetan tea appreciation forum

I didn't mean completely stuffed full, just that level of comfortable satiety when you know you could eat more but don't have to

>>6649122
It was a weird frothy texture that held it's shape , not pure liquid

>>6649342
Ok.jpg

>>6649324
Scat fetishist?

>>6648469
> thatssonineties.jpg

>>6649871
What's 90s about that?

>>6650232
taste profile, presentation, everything except the blob of jelly basically, that's early '00s

>>6650235
Huh I didn't know presentation could look nineties

>>6647602
>>6647575
I posted a picture of my bitter gourd (fuck you, it's frogmelon!) egg curry here: >>6649373
The rice is slightly yellow cuz I guess I didn't wash the pan quite well enough after cooking the curry before making the garlic rice.
It was delicious and not very bitter at all. :3

Have you had Sinhalese food? Lots of Malaysian/Indonesian influence. It's like Indo/Malay crossed with Portuguese/Brazilian and South Indian.

why did you go by yourself? i have to say the menu did not sound appetizing at all but the photos somewhat saved it. wasn't a fan of the presentation for a few of the dishes but i appreciate your threads and the diversity it brings to this board, keep it up

>>6650271
I got no one to go with, but I don't mind eating out alone anyway

glad to hear you enjoyed the thread!

Oh, the orange looks lovely and the duck liver sounds amazing. It does seem a bit outdated, though and it sounds like they're not too experienced in fine dining yet.

Also, a return ticket to the USA (the location of my long-term relationship) is about £600. That's more than six fine dining meals so the price is relatively incomparable. A trip also requires a dedicated period of time which means no work, which means you're not making money, and work restricts your holidays anyway. Plus the process of getting a visa takes a long time (ESTAs are not viable if you make frequent trips). A trip to a restaurant just takes a day, you can do it on a weekday no problem, you can do it spontaneously, and it really doesn't require the same kind of commitment a stay abroad would need. It's also worth saying that since you're visiting a loved one, it's not like just having a weekend away in the continent. One really appreciates having more time with them.

>>6650256
no? Keller was doing this exact kind of stuff at the French Laundry circa 1995

>>6650353
I haven't been to the French Laundry so I can't say.

That's pretty much spot on. And with this sort of distance it isn't worth it unless you can take a few weeks off compared to a few days. (my boy is in the states too)

TITS OR GTFO

>>6650654
>>>/b/

>>6650654
heres some blue tits in their warm safe bird house

soon they will leave the nest and explore the world on little wings

>>6651125
tfw actually posted cute tits and nobody appreciates them

>>6651656
v cute tits
would stroke

>>6651845
thank you

i have pics of them naked but i dont think its appropriate for ck

>>6651125
>>6651656
I appreciate.

>>6652229
Thanks have one more

>>6651125
>>6652229
>>6653054

here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ESV4WkLf9A

>>6653100
what an asshole woodpecker

>>6653100
something about the calm british voice offsets the fact that it's basically a snuff video

>>6653100
Fucking woodpeckers

>>6653100
The tits are pretty dumb, kind of in real life.
Peckers: 1
Tits: -1
So much for feminism

Thanks Borneo, threads like that are always interesting
Waiting for more in the future!

>>6653435
10/10 post would read again

>>6653435
They can't help being bird brained. I felt bad for the parents though, "where is my babys gone??"

>>6653445
I'm on my way home to Malaysia now, I might make a thread with all the random food I eat

>>6653981
Noice, have a good trip!

>>6653981
I can just imagine.
>There was no restroom so I had to power walk to an open sewer in the middle of the street to do the Hershey squirts.

>>6654622
Ew