[charris]

£4.95 for a Nespresso !? That is some mark up !!

In a 3 start michelin restaurant that is easily a bargain.

Mr Shades, I am very much interested if you are willing to describe more on the experience and also on the food in general. I would love to visit it next time I am in the UK.

 

[charris]

Well, when we were there on Sat there was someone else there blogging and photographing the full experience. I'll find the link to their blog which describes and shows it all very well.

Don't think of it as a meal - as it's more of an experience, like a west end show or other memorable event that lasts 4hrs.

Would I go back? Yes, if there was a different menu but not if there wasn't. Again, would I watch a show again - prob not - but id watch the same cast in the same theatre perform s different show!

Here you go... It may spoil the magic for some so don't read or look unless you really want to: http://www.therunnerbeans.com/2014/11/lunch-fat-duck.html

Compared to another 3 star? Gordon Ramsay or a classic like Alain Ducasse?

 

[charris]

I disagree. Yes I understand the relativity of pricing given you're in a top end fine dinning establishment and yes you would expect to pay more for the dining experience where you are being served sublimely prepared food but then to be served a capsule espresso (if indeed it was a nespresso, jury still seems to be out on that one), seems lazy, at odds with the ethos of a 3 michelin star restaurant and is therefore, in my opinion, not a bargain.

It is like going to stay at a £1k per night hotel room and complaining that the coke can in the mini bar is expensive at £4 or the room service burger is expensive at £30.

Thinking more on this the most expensive coffee I have had was at the George V in Paris. €15 for a cappuccino. Rip off in any way imaginable, but can I really complain? it is an expensive place and the prices are in the menu.

First time I went to Ramsey at Hospital road 15 years ago they sat us in a small lounge area and asked us if we want an aperitif, a glass of champagne. Of course we went for it, it was charged £36 each glass in the bill. Same at Ducasse in Paris, aperitif glass of wine was €60 each. And I know wine is different to coffee but these are prices per glass.

I don't disagree with you at all with regards to the coffee but when you go to spend £200++ per head then everything starts becoming relative in a kind of strange way.