It seems as though it's been a weekend of non-stop eating in our household. It all got off to a great start at Angela Hartnett's Mayfair restaurant Murano on Friday where we celebrated a double birthday and indulged ourselves over four delicious courses, the highlight of which (for me at least) was a superb white truffle risotto.
We decided to give the Taste Festival up in Regent's Park a miss, and headed instead to the Marylebone Summer Fayre where there were literally dozens of stalls serving up mouth watering treats. After pigging out on a pulled pork sandwich, I made a beeline to Peter Gordon's Providores stall, where they were serving up excellent Chorizo burgers in soft granary baps.
To follow, I decided to try two of Gordon's risottos to see how they stacked up against the Murano offering. I shared a smoked mackerel risotto and also a pea risotto with my wife. Both of these were very good, with fresh summery flavours, but ultimately they were no match for the delicate, complex flavours of Hartnett's triumphant dish.
But maybe that was expecting too much, after all the dish at Murano was around four times the cost of the Providores offering.
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