Just had a really great meal – expensive but amazing value despite that:

https://www.facebook.com/109StMaryStreet
http://claire-hutchings.co.uk/events-2/

One of those newfangled pop-up restaurants, open in Weymouth until the end of the month. Highly recommended! 🙂

Mmm, lunch…

‘ow much?

Couldn’t see prices on the menu based on a quick glance…

Can’t access Facebook in the office, but am down that way with work a couple of times per month…what was the food like? Price per head etc?

Weymouth always seems a bit bereft of good restaurants, so will give this place a try.

£45/head for canapés followed by five courses. It seats twenty and often gets booked up but we were there on a quiet night. I don’t often go to posh restaurants (wife is too much of a fussy eater and we’re too poor) but we were blown away!

It’s this kind of stuff – quite magical:

Our particular menu was:

Canapés

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Broccoli
Sumac & Pine Nuts

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Salmon
Kimchi, Cucumber & Coriander

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White Rock Chicken
Crab, Butternut & Mushroom

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Coconut
Mango & Lime
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Carrot
Chocolate & Sea Buckthorn

As you can imagine, that’s a very minimalist description of the food!

The head chef, Claire, was serving as it was a quiet evening, talked us through each dish and came out for a chat once service had ended. This pop-up ends in a few weeks, and then she’s doing one in Barbados over the winter. I wouldn’t be surprised to see her with a load of Michelin stars in a decade’s time!

Looks nice but I’d count all that as a single course…bit expensive…

Magical?

In a kind of makes your money disappear kind of way?

I’d need to stop off at the chippy on the way home..

It cost about the same as my handlebars… 😉

The bread was great too – freshly baked top notch brown and white, and then three different butters – truffle, seaweed and unsalted (this was particularly remarkable) – and presented on a chilled rock!