Heston Blumenthal, proprietor of the world's second best restaurant, tells the Guardian, "I am delighted the Health Protection Agency and the local Environmental Health Office have given us the all clear to open the restaurant tomorrow (Thursday, March 12). Whilst they are still awaiting outstanding test results we cannot comment further, but obviously we are overjoyed to be able to get back to business as normal."...
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The food-news aggregate site Coldmud has a first-hand account from a diner who got food poisoning after eating at Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck. Broadcaster David Freeman thinks giardiasis might be the culprit behind the illness that has affected more than 400 Fat Duck patrons....
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From left: Third course (oyster, passion fruit jelly, lavender); eighth course ("Sound of the Sea," made with sand of tapioca and fried bits of eel, layered with hide cockles, oyster, razor clams, seaweed). Photographs from the Ulterior Epicure's Flickr stream Although Heston Blumenthal's storied Fat Duck restaurant has some strict picture-taking protocol (“No Flash Photography” and “Keep Your Lens Trained On The Table"), the Ulterior Epicure was able to document every nibble of his 15-course feast. I approached The Fat Duck as a skeptic. None of my encounters with molecular gastronomy (“m.g.”) in the U.S. had impressed me: alinea, moto, wd~50… The Fat Duck was not only my first full-frontal m.g. experience outside the U.S., but it would be...
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If you ever plan on eating at The Fat Duck—known as one of the best restaurants in the world—and want your meal to be a surprise, don't read Boots in the Oven's exhaustive photo-laden post about their more than three-hour dinner at the restaurant. Otherwise, dig into 20 or so courses (if I may count every different dish as a course, even if it's the sized of a tablespoon) of molecular gastronomical madness, ranging from oak moss and truffle toast (appetizer) to salmon smoked with liquorice (main dish) to mango and Douglas fir purée (dessert). Although I'd love to try all the dishes, one stood out as the most intriguing: nitro-scrambled egg and bacon ice cream. Don't tell me...
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