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oyster girl is back 🦪

Oysters for £2.04 a pop in Mayfair 🦪 👀 This deal is on every Saturday from 12 pm until 7 pm at Sexy Fish. It’s called the Oyster Seduction menu and you can choose the - usually prohibitively expensive - Gillardeau oysters for a rather curious but very affordable £2.04 per bivalve mollusc. these oysters are sweeter, meat and a lot creamier than the standard jersey rock oyster, (which tend to feature in oyster happy hours) and are smaller and leaner. Invite #London #londonlife #oysters #oystergirl #sexyfish #gillardeau

I am German and it is my duty to review all the German restaurants in London. Today I’m visiting German gymnasium (with my German mother) to review their Christmas goose. You can order the goose (which comes with red cabbage, a bread dumpling, and green cabbage) for £39, or for £10 more you can have a three course meal of potato soup, goose and Apfelstrudel. A 3 course German meal for under £50!! Das mögen wir. GG is located in Kings Cross and the festive goose will be running throughout the festive season. (Invite) #germangymnasium #London #londonlife #deutschesessen #germanfood #germancuisine

The first time I ever had an oyster was when my mother ate one when she was pregnant with me. And this is the first time we’re eating oysters together since that day. We’re about 7 minutes into our meal when my mother hits me with a ‘I would never usually order oysters if I go to a restaurant’ What????? My love for oysters is so vast, a newspaper article christened me ‘oyster girl’. Anyway, questions of parentage aside, today we’re at Bentleys Oyster bar and grill which confidently bills itself as Mayfairs best restaurant. We’re here to eat oysters. (INVITE) A quick oyster masterclass - there are 2 types of oysters - rock and native. Rock oysters. These are now the most common oyster in the UK. They originally came from Japanese waters, which is where their other name - the Pacific oyster - comes from. It takes around 3 years for them to grow to an edible size and they are available all year round. Native oysters are native to our waters. The natives take longer to grow to an edible size, about five years and have a flat shell. Traditionally they’re only available to eat in a month with the letter R in it, so predominantly the winter months, when the water is cooler. I quite like native oysters. They have a strong taste, are rather metallic and have a long mouth feel. If oysters aren’t your thing, Bentleys also does an amazing turbot with langoustine sauce and lobster with garlic, lemon and almond butter. Price wise - yes it’s expensive, you’re in zone one, the beating heart of the capital. You’re paying a premium for the location, but the quality of the food and service are both phenomenal. It’s rare nowadays to experience waiters who takes their craft so seriously, and whose priority is to make you feel special and looked after, and that is the type of service you get here. It’s clear that a lot of thought and love has gone into the flavour of each dish and it’s a restaurant by Richard Corrigan, so of course it has! In a sea of overly hyped and overpriced Mayfair restaurants, Bentleys is definitely one of the best (if not THE best!) #bentleys #oysters #London #londonlife #londonfood #mayfair

This Is everything My brother and I ate at Londons oldest Michelin starred restaurant. (Invite) The restaurant is called Pied a Terre, It’s in Fitzrovia and has been Michelin starred for 31 consecutive years which is impressive given it burnt down in 2004 and retained its 2 stars that year. We had a 10 course tasting menu and a wine pairing. The first course was scallop stuffed chicken wing, oysters and exmoor caviar, and truffled egg with aged parmesan. Our first real starter is a plate of British tomatoes, in a tomato consume and topped with a bloody may granita. It’s an acidic dish so you cant pair it with an acidic wine as it will overwhelm your palate. The wine we had initially tasted soft and quite weak, But, after eating the tomatoes, and trying it again, it blossomed into a rich and tart flavour as it had taken on the tomatoes acidity. This is the first wine pairing I’ve had where I’ve actually noticed how much the food can impact the wine’s flavour. Second course was scallop with mushroom ketchup, king oyster mushroom, black autumn truffle and sauce vin jaune. Course number 4 is a Norfolk quail with pistachio, blackberry, duck liver mignonette and Elysium sauce. The year on a wine bottle indicates the grape harvest; this wines grapes were picked in 2013, the same year my brother started secondary school. I’m laughing here because ive never had meat like this! the quail was soft and pink and barely needed chewing, it was like eating butter. Course 5 was cod with squash prepared several different ways. This was paired with a chardonnay. I don’t usually like chardonnay because usually I find they taste like rancid butter, but this one was golden, full bodied and had a creamy texture. It came with a crab and sage profiterole. Course 6: Highland Venison Saddle with Roscoff Onion / Beetroot / Celeriac / Mayan Chocolate. Venison saddle is a premium cut which is taken from the back of the deer and it’s a very tender and and has a gamey flavour. Course 7 is the cheese course, we had a tete a moin which was served with crackers lodged into a tree trunk. Paired with a German wine grown in the Mosul region which hs some of the steepest vinerayrs in the world which you can see here There was a palate cleanser which I didnt film becuase i forgot but the course after that is the Peated Chocolate Mousse which is as heavy as it sounds. we finished with a few sweet bites The 10 course tasting menu cost £150pp and the wine pairing starts at £150pp and goes up to £450 for 8 glasses!!

🇩🇪 Oktoberfest hallöchen !!🇦🇹 This is my first time celebrating oktoberfest and where better to do it than in….London… in austrian themed The Delaunay ! The Delaunay is hosting an oktoberfest menu until sunday 6 october, meine Mutter and I had: Kasekrainer hotdog in a brioche bun with mustard and caramelised onions 😋 (£12.75) Sausage selection with german potato salad and sauerkraut (£17.50) pork knuckle with semmelknödel and sauerkraut (£24) - the highlight of the meal 10000/10 Mushroom stroganoff - i almost had an argument with my mother about this being vegetarian because it tasted so rich meaty and unlike any veggie dish i’d ever eaten - and it came with HOT PICKLES!!! (18.50) Apfelstrudel with custard + a couple of huge steins of beer (around £12 from memory) (invite) #germanfood #deutschesessen #London #londonlife #thedelaunay #lecker #schweinehaxe #österreich