The Michelin Club
4 friends who love food
L'Ortolan
1 star Michelin Restaurant in Shinfield, Reading
Head Chef: Alan Murchison
Food: French
Date visited: 10/05-2014
Total Bill: £913.78 (including optional service charge)
Menu:
All 4 members in the Michelin Club went for the Surprise Menu, where the following dishes were served:
Chef's appetiser
Crab (Lime dressed white crab meat, fennel, mango & coconut).
Cazpacho (Chilled tomato soup, confit tomato, Brock Hall goat's cheese mousse).
Tuna (Seared tuna with classic Nicoise garnish).
Asparagues (English asparagus, confit egg yolk, toated hazelnuts, sordough croutons).
Stone Bass (Fillet of stone bass, confit tomatoes fennel).
Beef (Fillet of beef, pommes Anna, asparagus, smoked bone marrow).
British Cheese (plated selection of British cheese).
Chef's pre-dessert
Strawberry (Strawberry parfait, strawberry meringue, Champagné).
Caramel Slice (Puffed rice, caramel, Madirofolo ganache, popcorn ice cream).
Wine:
The Wine was picked with excellent help from the Sommelier, where we had the following:
White: 2011 Testalonga Bandito, 'Skin Contact', Chenin Blanc (long maceration) (South Africa) & 2 gl of 2012 Jurancon Séc, Clos Lapeyre, Jean Bernard Larrieu (South West France) & 2 gl of unkown.
Red: 2008 Clos du Jaugueyron, Haut Medoc, Margaus, Michel Theuron (France).
Port: 4 gl of 2007 Quinta da Romaneira, Late Bottled Vintage Unfiltered.
Dessert: 4 gl of 2013 Cerdon de Bugey, Renardet Fache, Ain (France) (D), 4 fl of 2000 Rivesaltes Ambré, Cazes (France).
Extras:
The restaurant furthermore served 3 different tasters before dinner and 6 different small tasters after dinner.
Annette and Carlos also had a nice tour of the kitchen in the end of the evening.
Further pictures from our evening can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152480002406383.1073741969.786091382&type=1&l=e800747c7f
Link to the restaurant:
To read about our whole experience in this restaurant, please refer to our blog where we will also like to hear your comments and view if you have visited the restaurant yourself.