Chez Gerard

Thursday, February 14, 2013 - The new menu incorporates stealth twists; that 28-day-aged Casterbridge onglet, not rested properly but packing good flavour, is topped with an intrusively hot, unadvertised harissa butter. Sadly, the nice man with the Caesar salad trolley has his dressing already made – worse, he wants to add roasted red pepper and chopped herring. A mushy treacle sponge is topped with crushed almond brittle, which is not the kind of surprise everyone would welcome. The old way wasn’t working but neither is the new. Someone needs to put a magic spell on it.