The weekend papers were full of good reviews for a variety of different restaurants including one of the most expensive in the country and a pop-up restaurant housed in unlicensed premises.
Jasper Gerard of The Daily Telegraph, was accompanied by Heston Blumenthal on his visit to Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley, where the reality really does live up to the hype.
However, he adds that he has no answer for diners complaining about the price - £318.37 for two at lunch. "Just as motoring correspondents review Rolls-Royces as well as Reliant Robins, so restaurant critics should test drive high-octane, turbo-charged culinary marques as well as old bangers," Gerard says.
The Observer's Jay Rayner meanwhile enjoys a more down-to-earth eating experience at Dock Kitchen, one of London's latest pop-up restaurants. Run by River Café chef Stevie Parle, its friendly and lightly chaotic service, very good food and unlicensed premises, make the experience an enjoyable one that doesn't burn a hole in his expenses.
Tracey MacLeod of The Independent dines at the newly opened Ashmolean Dining Room at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford. She says that despite its informal, café-like feel, the confident, friendly service and ambitious menu marks this out as far more than an add-on to the museums' visitor experience.
Finally The Times's Giles Coren raves about Mitch Tonks's Seahorse in Dartmouth, Devon, describing the seafood restaurant as perfect. Taking the produce, cooking, service, ambience, location and company into consideration, he rates it as the best meal he has had all year.
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Well dear old Jasper might not be able to give his readers who complained about the price an answer, but I can: he must have spanked the bloody wine list from one end of Knightsbridge to the other.
I'm not claiming Wareing is cheap, but there is a lunch menu at £35 a head. At that price, even allowing for some of the eye-bulging prices on the wine list, it would be possible to get out of there for less than £150 for two, a relative bargain for that quality of cooking.
Hell, the full on price is £75. Multiply that by two, add a £35 bottle of wine, a bottle of water and a 12.5% service charge and it would still be £100 less than the bill Jasper ran up. Still I'm delighted Heston got a good lunch, as indeed is whoever signs Jasper's expenses claim.