A tipple with a difference from Ping Pong

The New Year brings with it a thirst for a healthier lifestyle and twentieth century teahouse and dim sum emporium, Ping Pong have created a delicious new drink brimming with goodness to help get you started. However, understanding detoxing is not to everyone’s taste, there is an alcoholic twist for those who want it…
 

The Detox / Retox Lychee Red Black Tea

Infusing the sweetest black tea scented with lychee from Guangdong in Southern China with chrysanthemum and lime leaves, this revitalising iced tea is an aromatic adventure with a host of benefits.  
 
Black tea is crammed with antioxidants and, according to Chinese medicine, chrysanthemum flowers clear toxic heat and protect the liver whilst lime leaves cleanse body and mind.
 
Enjoyed detox pure or with a cheeky shot of retox Tequila there is little reason not to indulge.

Available from all Ping Pong restaurants throughout January
the detox Lychee Red Black Tea is £2.95 with the retox version at £5.95

Foxtrot Alpha

What a strange name, or callsign. I'd like to see a restaurant called Bravo Two Zero where you have to eat your meal halfway up a tree with a sniper rifle round your neck. But maybe that's just me.

Anyway, later this month Gordon Ramsay re-opens Chelsea’s classic neighbourhood bistro, Foxtrot Oscar and no doubt the critics will be all over it like a cheap suit. In 1998 when Gordon Ramsay opened his flagship restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, he like many others, fell for the restaurant’s charms. Gordon and his team of chefs became well known faces at Foxtrot Oscar and often dined at the restaurant after an evening’s service.

On taking over Foxtrot Oscar, Gordon Ramsay comments; “I am tremendously excited about Foxtrot Oscar. My aim is to take the restaurant back to its glory days; providing fantastic food in a friendly, unpretentious environment – the ultimate local bistro”.

The refurbishment of the building will build on the cosy and simple nature of the neighbourhood bistro. With a central colour scheme of cream and black the refurbishment will create an interior that is modern yet comforting.

The menu will be in keeping with the original but updated for today’s diners; simple, classic dishes based around fresh produce and seasonal ingredients. Starters will include; Chicken liver parfait with toasted brioche and Steak tartare, properly garnished. Main dishes will include Foxtrot fishcakes and Homemade pie of the day. And to finish, Chocolate fondant and Treacle tart.

Foxtrot Oscar will have a capacity for eighty guests and will be open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week.

Plane Sailing

Gordon is also opening Plane Food at the newly built Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport. Plane Food will be a 180-cover fine dining restaurant housed in the Richard Rogers-designed building of the world's busiest international airport. Stuart Gillies (Boxwood Café) will oversee the menu together with Nathan Johnson. And not to be stopped he is also launching a third pub, The Warrington , in Maida Vale. Dating back to 1857, this landmark building has been sympathetically returned to its former glory following an extensive restoration designed to retain and enhance its best historical features. The ground floor will operate as a traditional pub while the first floor will house a 90-cover restaurant and dedicated bar. Reservations are not currently open however more details will be published as soon the pub launches.

Crccchhxxx, over and out

 

Go Venetian in London

VENETIAN CARNIVAL AT SARTORIA

Sartoria, in Savile Row, London, is celebrating the traditional Italian festival of ‘Carnevale’ in authentic style with a Venetian inspired menu and cocktails, available for the whole month of February 2008.

Carnival Aperitivi
Customers can start the Carnival experience with an aperitivo at the bar.  Two new cocktails have been created an and Head Chef Alan Marchetti has taken inspiration from the food and traditions of the Veneto region and created a menu available for both lunch and dinner and priced at £19.50 for two courses,  £24.50 for three courses including

Acciughe marinate al Salmoriglio
Marinated anchovies with olive oil, oregano, garlic and lemon juice

Vegetali arrosto con polenta
Oven baked winter vegetables served with polenta

Risi e bisi alla Veneta
‘Risotto’ with peas, bacon and Parmesan

Moscardini con riso all’inchiostro di seppia
Sautéed baby octopus in garlic and chillies served with black squid ink rice

Bigoli al pomodoro e acciughe
Bigoli (hollow spaghetti shaped pasta) with a light tomato and anchovy sauce

and

Frappe di carnevale
Also known as ‘chiacchiere’ (the Italian for ‘chatter’), these deep fried strips of sweet pasta are served dusted with sugar

 

Great Galvin Giveaway

Great prices from 14th January to 17th February*

Do you like food? Do you like views? Do you like views and food and saving a quid or two?

Chris Galvin and Pommery Champagne would like to thank customers for their fantastic patronage over the last year. Chris and Head Chef Andre Garrett have created a winter menu to enjoy for lunch or dinner.

£19.50 for 2 courses or £25.00 for 3 courses at lunch, £50** for 3 courses at dinner
All prices include a glass of Pommery Brut Royal per person.

That's got to be a bargain. Innit

Legal stuff. Offer not available in conjunction with any other offer; excludes Saturdays and Valentine's day. Quote the "Great Galvin Giveaway" at the time of booking.

 

‘POP UP’ WINTER ICE LOUNGE AT PLATEAU IN CANARY WHARF

Plateau Restaurant in Canary Wharf marks the start of the Russian New Year with the launch of a Smirnoff Black ‘pop up’ Winter Ice Lounge on the outside Terrace until 29 February 2008.

The glass fronted Terrace situated in a prime 4th floor location at the top of the Canada Place building, has stunning views across the lawns and sculptures of Canada Square Park.  It will be transformed into a contemporary Winter Ice Lounge with a frozen luge as a central feature plus an ice wall with decorative icicles and stalactites. 

An inviting Winter setting will greet customers upon entering; a warm, intimate feel will be created by the use of tall storm lanterns, candles and tea lights on tables. 

Customers will be able to relax on the low white chairs, admire the views, huddle up with blankets and enjoy the wide range of cocktails and ice shots – the latter served in shot glasses made of ice, the traditional way of raising a toast to the Russian New Year (officially starts on Sunday 13 January). 
A selection of warming bar food and hot drinks will also be available.

The bar list includes over fifteen different drinks,

KAI MAYFAIR’S UNIQUE NEW CHAMPAGNE MENU

One for the oligarchs amongst us, or the pro football players, this. Kai Mayfair, one of the capital’s most opulent Chinese restaurants, has taken the world´s finest bubbly and used it to help create London´s most sumptuous and unique menu.

Kai´s Dom Perignon Menu uses a full bottle of the 1999 vintage to create each six course meal for two. The last word in luxury.

The cost for Kai Mayfair’s Dom Perignon menu is £280 per person for a minimum of two people. Three days’ notice is required for all bookings.

The choice of suggested accompaniments for the menu are 1999 Dom Perignon (£120), 1996 Dom Perignon Rose (£210), 1993 Dom Perignon (£250), 1964 Oenotheque Dom Perignon (£570) and 1959 Oenotheque Dom Perignon (£1,700).

So a cheap meal it aint, but it will be rather memorable.

 

 

 

 

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