I'll have the egg 'n chips, please

[swee'pea99]

"Cucumber is turned into a bracing granita, served with lightly vinegared, julienned and charred chunks of the vegetable, adding Pommery mustard to deliver something tasting like essence of celestial gherkin. He stuffs a tube of tissue-thin tuile with mascarpone, stained fuchsia with beetroot; it comes with blobs of glossy beet emulsion and mandolined choggia....." (Restaurant review in last weekend's Guardian.)

Eh?

I can't recall ever having come across a brace of sentences containing so many words I don't even recognise, let alone understand.

(Apparently it was quite nice.)

 

[ianrauk]

what a load of cock

 

[Ganymede]

[QUOTE 3295101, member: 259"]Choggia? Spelling mistakes in the Guardina, whoodathunkit? [/QUOTE]
Careful there Mort, your excessively wide vegetable knowledge is showing under your slip.

I've eaten quite a few meals of this kind in the last coupla years and I too prefer the simple stuff.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Fairly typical down-to-earth leftie nosh.

 

[Cycleops]

The Grauniad readers pretentious? Non.

 

[User169]

Fairly typical down-to-earth leftie nosh.

Says Monsieur aubergine worrier!

 

[User169]

Well it makes a change from uncle Patricks ramrod-straight bird-biffing meat and twenty veg action.

 

[Bollo]

what a load of cock

Was that on the menu?

 

[Pale Rider]

what a load of cock

Hope not, given that it's been 'mandolined',

 

[Cycleops]

Was that on the menu?

No, but I suspect the Sweetbreads might have been

 

[Keith Oates]

A restaurant to stay clear of in my book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[accountantpete]

The full review is worthy of a Pseuds Corner entry.

http://www.eyeslikeplates.com/2014/09/van-zeller-harrogate-north-yorkshire-restaurant-review/

 

[Markymark]

Looks lovely.

Can I have it with ketchup please?

 

[Peteaud]

He went to the Golden Arches.

 

[User169]

The full review is worthy of a Pseuds Corner entry.

http://www.eyeslikeplates.com/2014/09/van-zeller-harrogate-north-yorkshire-restaurant-review/

Ah - so it's a poncy Northerner thing! No mention of the ale served with obligatory "foam".