So, our local and awesome Chinese, is shut, due to the Chinese New Year for the next 2 weeks, which considering this is hopefully our last or second last weekend in this house, slightly gutting. I don't think they're away working out how to pay for Hull City AFC just in case anyone is interested. So, the wife has demanded I take her to the Brampton Mill, which is a fab, but expensive local restaurant. Probably a little too posh for a lot of you on here, but I wondered, given these options for main course, what would you go for and why? I normally go for the steak or the lamb there, always excellent, but I'm thinking about trying the Wagyu Burger, as I've heard awesome things about Wagyu beef. Is it really that good? Note for Chazz and Ben: You can only have 1. Fat ****s. Home-made British beef burger £11.50 with smoked Cheddar, mustard mayonnaise, relish and fries Wagyu burger £15.95 with smoked cheddar, crispy onions, relish, sweet potato fries and aioli Lobster brioche roll £14.75 withtwice-cooked chunky chips and thermidor dip Battered Halloumi £11.50 in garlic & buttermilk with twice-cooked chunky chips, minted pea purée and tartare sauce (v) Slow-cooked pork belly & seared scallops £18.50 with pancetta & thyme mashed potato, beans tossed in apple butter and an English cider & mustard sauce Spit-roasted chicken £12.95 with lemon & garlic confit, fries, jus and aioli Chicken, ham & crème fraîche pie £13.95 with mashed potato, seasonal greens, thyme glazed carrots and jus Croxton manor Cheddar soufflè £10.95 with celeriac remoulade and a spiced pear & hazelnut salad (v) Hand-made beetroot and truffle ravioli £10.95 with julienne beetroot tossed in a white wine sauce (v) King prawn, crab and chorizo linguine £13.50 with white wine, tomatoes, garlic & chilli 9oz 28 day aged rib-eye steak £20.95 with twice-cooked chunky chips, crispy onions and baby kale 7oz Fillet steak £23.50 with dauphinoise potatoes, roasted mushroom & caramelised shallot, béarnaise sauce and rosemary, tomato & garlic jelly Beer-battered line-caught cod £11.95 withtwice-cooked chunky chips, minted pea purée and tartare sauce Roasted salmon supreme £13.50 with tenderstem broccoli, Romano pepper, Portobello mushrooms, feta and a pineapple & sesame dressing Pan-fried seabass fillets £17.50 with mashed potato, green vegetables and a brown shrimp & Devon crab sauce Four-bone English rack of lamb £20.50 with asparagus, chorizo, peas, baby onions, dauphinoise potatoes and jus Chargrilled swordfish steak £19.95 with jerk seasoning, tenderstem broccoli, pineapple salsa, pomegranate seeds and coconut sauce Duck leg confit and waffle £15.50 with sweet potato fries, seasonal greens, honey roasted pineapple and jus
Is your local Chinese actually run by Chinese people? Chinese New Year was last month. Wagyu beef is excellent, though it's completely wasted if you make it into a burger, as the whole benefit of it is the marbling of the meat that makes it such a great steak.
Wait, what? The Chinese New Year was last month. February 8 to be precise (my birthday coincidentally).
Malaysians. They're lovely. It's just this time of year they say its New Year, we're off, some **** off back to see family, some just have a break. The only important thing is, the ****ers are shut for 2 weeks. You musta eaten that beef, any thoughts on it?
Errr Chinese New Year has been and gone?! I deal with alot of Chinese suppliers so I'm pretty confident I'm right... Edit: beaten to it multiple times!
Expensive? I'd say that's really cheap. Tomorrow I'm going out for brunch and it's £45 a head. For brunch. Re the menu I had Wagyu in a nice restaurant in Bangkok over the festive period. It was alright. I'd go King prawn, crab and chorizo linguine.
Anyone paying less than £30 for a main course (a lasagne, maybe) or less than £50 for a bottle of wine is a tramp.
Oh. Prawns. Crabs. No. We have those in our fish tank. They have names. We can't eat anything that looks like it coulda been in our tank. I'm ok with chorizo obvz.
Wagyu/Kobe beef - think of the best rib eye steak you ever had and then mutiply that by 10, it's that good. The burger advertised doesn't sound genuine, as lammie says, no chef would commit such sacrilege by turning a Kobe steak into a burger.
Wagyu beef can now be sold when it's made from a cow that once touched a genuine wagyu... Being serious you can buy it in Aldi, and its from cows here that have some % link to a real one. Check out their Wagyu burgers for a few quid. Real Wagyu is priced like it should be: in the hundreds. And, having just eaten in Nobu, Monte Carlo, I'd say that menu is very reasonable. The wife had a bowl of broccoli that cost more than anything above. Made my eyes water when the bill came.
rack of lamb looks good, rib-eye steak if it's a good one. Prices look ok to me, I've given up paying silly money for food.
