Gordon Ramsay – Maze (Restaurant Review)
Posted December 6th, 2008 | No Comments
Last weekend on a trip to London I took the opportunity to visit my 4th Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
Those of you that know me or follow me on Twitter will know that I’m pretty obsessed with food and fine dining in particular. I’m not going to review the restaurant & especially the dishes in detail as I did following my visit to Boxwood in Knightsbridge, as I feel this blog has moved on from that time. I don’t want to bore my new readers who see this as a technology blog.
I have been asked many times what I had to eat though so I thought I would list my chosen dishes with a very few quick thoughts on the overall experience compared to the other restaurants.
Maze
Maze is very modern for a fine dining menu, in everything from the ambience and dress code right through to the food. The menu is a ‘tapas’ style tasting menu with individual dishes costing between £8 – £15 each. The chef recommended selecting 2 or 3 starter dishes and 2 main courses. I chose 3 starters and 4 main courses, being a tasting menu I wanted to taste as much as possible!
My 8 Dishes…
The following is what I ate.
Love the eel!
As I said, I won’t be reviewing the food individually, just to say that every single dish was stunning. Standouts were the scallops, both fish main courses – particularly the halibut with black pudding and my favourite dish of the evening and one of my favourites of all time, the smoked eel & fois gois. I’d never eaten eel before but I loved it and can’t wait to have it again.
Not quite…
Finally, some thoughts on the restaurant. Although I enjoyed the food as much as any of the other top restaurants I visited, the overall experience at Maze wasn’t quite as good as the other Gordon Ramsay restaurants i’ve been to. I still had a fantastic time and an average restaurant wouldn’t even come close to it. But after the high standards of Claridges and the 3 Michelin starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, Maze didn’t quite live up to them.
It was really only little things such as the staff not being as friendly and approachable but when you pay so much money for a meal the small things make the difference to the overall experience.
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