{"id":20805,"date":"2013-01-04T23:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T23:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=20805"},"modified":"2022-06-29T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:06:25","slug":"the-ledbury-more-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=20805","title":{"rendered":"The Ledbury &#8211; More or Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started off the new year on a high, with lunch at <a title=\"The Ledbury\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theledbury.com\/\" target=\"_self\">The Ledbury<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 There were two\u00a0 menu options. The special lunch Menu at \u00a345 or the Tasting Menu at \u00a375, both available with matching wine.\u00a0 Such a tough choice, but it was <a title=\"The Ledbury\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theledbury.com\/\" target=\"_self\">The Ledbury<\/a> and we just had to go down the &#8220;More&#8221; route.\u00a0\u00a0 We had matching wines for each course (including a matching wine for the amuse bouche) making a total of 8 glasses each (I think).\u00a0 Pretty heavy for lunch time drinking I have to say. In retrospect the &#8220;Less&#8221; route might have been the more sensible choice.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-20805 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tn_P1110552.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tn_P1110552-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tn_P1110554.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tn_P1110554-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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So if you pick your day carefully it is possible to get a reservation at this temple of gastronomy.<\/p>\n<p>We started with Chantilly of Colchester Oysters with a Tartare of Scallop and Oyster, Horseradish and Dill &#8211; a very elegant dish, this was followed by Flame Grilled Mackerel with Smoked Eel, Celtic Mustard and Shiso. Then we had Hampshire Buffalo Milk Curd with Saint-Nectaire and Truffle Toast. The Truffle Toast was the highlight for me, delicious. We were four glasses down at this point when we moved on to the fish course of Roast Native Lobster with Broccoli stem, Natural Yogurt and Indian Spices in Brown Butter. This was followed by Pork Cheek cooked in Pedro Xim\u00e9nez with Puffed Grains and Spiced Cream and Roast Haunch of Fallow Deer with White Beetroot and Smoked Bone Marrow and several more glasses of well matched wines. We finished with a light pre-dessert and the dessert of Pav\u00e9 of Chocolate with Milk Pur\u00e9e and Lovage Ice Cream.<\/p>\n<p>The food was universally good, we just felt that we had over done it.\u00a0 I am always happy to go to The Ledbury but I think next time I will stick to the set lunch.<\/p>\n<p>One tip though, if you do want to go down the Tasting Menu route,\u00a0 is to do it at lunch time &#8211; the Tasting Menu is \u00a330 cheaper then than the one offered in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE &#8211; June 2020 Permanently Closed.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE &#8211; April 2022 Reopened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started off the new year on a high, with lunch at The Ledbury.\u00a0\u00a0 There were two\u00a0 menu options. The special lunch Menu at \u00a345 or the Tasting Menu at \u00a375, both available with matching wine.\u00a0 Such a tough choice, but it was The Ledbury and we just had to go down the &#8220;More&#8221; route.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=20805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ledbury &#8211; More or Less?&#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":[225,25,7,8],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-20805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-michelin-stars","category-expensive","category-london","category-uk","tag-the-ledbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805","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=20805"}],"version-history":[{"count":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30995,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20805\/revisions\/30995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}