Food

anytime after 5.30pm from the 1st-13th

Hedging bets.
replied within 5 mins... :)

Are these the soft launch date in November?

Thanks for the tip hatbeard

trip to la relais de venise tonight i think

might just ask for a bowl of the special sauce and a straw

got my reservation for 4 on saturday evening... boom.

What time did you email and how quickly did they email back?

Yet to hear back either - chances are they have a lot to work through.

trip to la relais de venise tonight i think

might just ask for a bowl of the special sauce and a straw

Love that place.
In fact I'm gonna call my butcher to get 2 onglet in for saturday.

It really is great. Could probably do without the salad tbh. Or at least the dressing. will ask for no dressing next time. Entrecote, secret sauce, frites and house red were spot on as ever. It's now £22 which is still absurdly good value.

In other news, Lower Marsh and specifically Cubana's amazing pulled pork and chicken lunch box stand are being Jay Raynered as we speak.

*braces for the hoardes.

^^ I love the macho ordering process at La Renais. Three of us sit down and the waitress comes over approximately five seconds later with wine list. Wave this away and declare:

"We're ready to order actually... rare? rare? rare? And a bottle of house red please. Thanks"

I don't know why there aren't more places that follow the one menu model.

They have an awesome deal around christmas time at the la relais de venise in canary wharf, 50% off the whole bill. We ate everything on the menu washed down with countless bottles of the house red and white for £20 a head.

Do not run up the canary wharf tube escalator the wrong way after, I learnt the hard way!

What time did you email and how quickly did they email back?

bit late but about 11:07am and they replied at 3:30pm

Hemingway's Burger recipe

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/09/16/hemingways-hamburger/?utm_source=newsletteroctober2013&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hemingwayhamburger

Am hopefully going to Pitt Cue tonight. What do I order? Never been before

Am hopefully going to Pitt Cue tonight. What do I order? Never been before

Shit. No I won't. Just seen it's shut for a refurb!

Anyone got any great mince-sourcing recommendations in London? I loves me some homemade burgers (well, sliders really - like this) and have a hand-turned mincer which is great and all but when you're cooking for 1 or 2 it just isn't worth getting it out, getting it dirty and you have to make 4 times mince as you want to eat or it won't even go through the mincer properly... so, I've been buying steak mince from HG Walters in Baron's Court (which is basically meat-porn with an incredible array of every cut of quality meat) and asking them to mince a bit more fat through it to get juicy burgers... but, as tasty as it is, it's not got the strong, aged beefy, almost cheesey ripeness of the stuff they use in the Hawksmoor/Dirty Burger etc...just wondered if anyone knew of anywhere else that might be worth trying their prepared mince? I know you can ask some places to mince for you, but again you need to buy far more than you really want to make it worth their while and would rather not bulk buy mince if I can avoid it, as we don't really have a functional freezer at the moment....

N16 meats is apprently very good. But just get someone to mix you up some mince. Most butchers well happy to do it.

Ginger Pig supplies Hawksmoor. And Mother Flipper and Honest Burger

I refer you to my challenge winning mix.
Ginger Pig minced for me the amount I wanted.

https://www.lfgss.com/post3590436-14209.html

deserves a pic, mands!

http://static.lfgss.com/attachments/67662d1368435260-photo4.jpg

I refer you to my challenge winning mix.
Ginger Pig minced for me the amount I wanted.

http://www.lfgss.com/post3590436-14209.html

That looks and sounds absolutely incredible! Mmmmmm. I guess my problem is I won't need anything like that much mince and can't freeze anything - not sure if they'd be so happy doing a bespoke mince for 400g? I guess the solution is just invite some mates over and go for a kilo. Just found out that there's a ginger pig close-ish to my work, so might pop up at lunchtime and try their 'standard' mince tonight, just to see what the quality's like compared to HGW... cheers

I really don't think they would have a problem doing 400g. I said, "can you mince the following for me..." and they went "yeah sure"...
I went to Borough stall at lunch time on a Fri. They weren't busy.
Actually just call them up.

^^ ha, yeah. Gawd I had sushi for lunch at 12pm and now I'm starving! Could do with that juicy burger right now.

I really don't think they would have a problem doing 400g. I said, "can you mince the following for me..." and they went "yeah sure"...
I went to Borough stall at lunch time on a Fri. They weren't busy.
Actually just call them up.

^^ ha, yeah. Gawd I had sushi for lunch at 12pm and now I'm starving! Could do with that juicy burger right now.

So, yeah, went along to the ginger pig in shepherd's bush at lunch and the butcher talked me out of going for the premium selected-cuts mince. Well, he put me off by telling me what it would cost for a kilo and that their standard steak mince was made from offcuts of aged ribeye, which is my favourite cut anyway (he had clearly had similar requests before and didn't think it was worth it).

Had decided I'd go the whole hog, buy a kg and make spag bol with the remnant (doing RotFL on sunday so fancy a good carb-load saturday night)... but a quick cost v benefit analysis of spending £25+ for a kilo of beef mince was performed and I just can't believe it could be 3 times as good as their standard mince (he also gave me, for free, about 800g of freshly minced beef fat to mix through to up the fat ratio of the mince - top bloke) - totally believe that the bespoke mince of selected cuts will be better, and will undoubtedly go for it at some point when cooking for friends and going all-out, but not sure I can justify it for a night of guilty sliders/beer/football when the vegetarian girlfriend is out for the evening...

Anyway, tl/dr, cheers for advice, will definitely try that ratio when I decide to go mincing.

when I decide to go mincing.

Hello sailor...

true true... I was out to win at all costs and it did cost.
I also did it for friends who always have me around so didn't mind splashing out for them.

Meanwhile...
http://www.cheesewinefestival.com/when-and-where/

I replied within 12 mins, still reckon I'll be lucky to get a table..

thanks to hatbeard for the tip

I replied within 2 mins, if I haven't got a table I'm calling foul play