{"id":10336,"date":"2010-12-31T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2011-03-12T19:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T19:08:06","slug":"no-expert-annual-awards-for-2010-other-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10336","title":{"rendered":"No Expert Annual Awards for 2010 &#8211; Other Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Best Starter of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gravadlax and beetroot club sandwich with herring salade lyonaise and horseradish : <a title=\"Chez Bruce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13919\" target=\"_self\">Chez Bruce<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Main Course of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skate Poached in Brown Butter with Truffle Puree, Cauliflower, Parmesan Gnocchi and Sea Vegetables : <a title=\"The Ledbury\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13066\" target=\"_self\">The Ledbury<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Dessert &#8211; 2 winners<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passion Fruit Souffle with Sauterne Ice cream<strong> : <\/strong><a title=\"The Ledbury\" href=\"..\/..\/?p=13066\" target=\"_self\">The Ledbury<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Raspberries\/vinegar and quark Ice cream\/vinaigrette &#8211; or RED as it was called on the menu : <a title=\"Moments\" href=\"..\/..\/?p=8666\" target=\"_self\">Moments<\/a> in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Barcelona).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Worst Dessert- 2 winners<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peanut\u00a0butter crumble\u00a0with caramelized bananas &#8211; <a title=\"Muranos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=8921\" target=\"_self\">Muranos<\/a> : A boring, unattractive dessert (one of these occasions where it would help to have a peanut allergy, so as to avoid accidentally ordering it).<\/li>\n<li>Strawberry shortcake at the <a title=\"The Blue Print Cafe\" href=\"..\/..\/?p=10217\" target=\"_self\">Blueprint Cafe<\/a> : Not my idea of shortcake. It was\u00a0 more like oatcake, with cream and strawberries, basically rather dull.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Foliage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=7813\" target=\"_self\">Foliage<\/a>, Mandarin Oriental Hotel (London)<strong> <\/strong>&#8211; closely followed by <a title=\"Moments\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=8666\" target=\"_self\">Moments<\/a> in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel (Barcelona).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Worst Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tetsuya&#8217;s (Sydney)<strong> &#8211; <\/strong>more for the handling of an incident rather than overall service.<strong> <\/strong>Saying sorry always helps.<strong> <\/strong>See<strong> <\/strong><a title=\"Tetsuya's\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13568\" target=\"_self\">Tetsuya&#8217;s &#8211; It&#8217;s a knockout<\/a> for details.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Bread<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Tom Aikens\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=11287\" target=\"_self\">Tom Aikens<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best Brunch<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Champagne brunch in the Winter Garden : <a title=\"The Landmark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=11054\" target=\"_self\">The Landmark<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Most disappointing &#8211;<\/strong> Places where the hype was\u00a0 really out of step with our experience.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Muranos\" href=\"..\/..\/?p=8921\" target=\"_self\">Muranos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best\u00a0value for money <\/strong>&#8211; 3 winners here<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Landmark\" href=\"..\/..\/?p=11054\" target=\"_self\">The Landmark<\/a> : Champagne brunch in the Winter Garden &#8211; SERIOUSLY. I know\u00a0 it is expensive but you more than get your money&#8217;s worth, fabulous selection of food and unlimited champagne.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Coq d'Argent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=7226\" target=\"_self\">Coq d&#8217;Argent<\/a> : A Top Table deal of \u00a319 for 3 courses that included escargot and venison.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Athenaeum\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=13557\" target=\"_self\">The Atheneaum<\/a> : Another Top Table deal, a Christmas menu providing 2 substantial courses for \u00a324.50 or 3 for \u00a329.50 &#8211; with coffee and mince pies and a glass of &#8220;really good&#8221; champagne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Worst value for money<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a title=\"The Blue Print Cafe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10217\" target=\"_self\">Blueprint Cafe<\/a> &#8211; even with a couple of courses free (using Top Table points), it was still far too expensive for the food quality delivered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The \u00a321 Fish &amp; Chips at <a title=\"The Mayflower Inn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=11891\" target=\"_self\">The Mayflower Inn<\/a>, might have won this award, but since the price stopped us even trying that dish, I can not judge. However I still do not believe any Pub should get away with charging \u00a321 for Fish &amp; Chips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best View<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Gerkin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=54\" target=\"_self\">30|40 at the Gerkin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Starter of the Year Gravadlax and beetroot club sandwich with herring salade lyonaise and horseradish : Chez Bruce Best Main Course of the Year Skate Poached in Brown Butter with Truffle Puree, Cauliflower, Parmesan Gnocchi and Sea Vegetables : The Ledbury. Best Dessert &#8211; 2 winners Passion Fruit Souffle with Sauterne Ice cream : &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=10336\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No Expert Annual Awards for 2010 &#8211; Other Categories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-winners","category-no-expert-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15419,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/15419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}