Maze

Lunch at Maze:

We had the 4 course tasting menu each. There were 9 to choose from on the menu, and we literally ordered everything except for the oxtail. 5 savoury and 3 sweets.

Menu as per Maze website :

Savoury

• Onion squash soup, puffed wild rice, ewe’s curd, smoked bacon, braised chicken thighs,chestnut powder
• Marinated beetroot, Slipcote cheese, pine nuts and Cabernet Sauvignon dressing
• Cornish red mullet, tapenade, croutons, aioli, fish soup
• ‘Scotch broth’ roasted halibut, black pudding,Argyle ham, turnip purée
• Citrus spiced oxtail, wild turnips, horseradish and sour apple risotto
• Braised shoulder of aged lamb, faggot, parsnip purée, pear jam, ox-eye daisy, cob-nuts

Sweet

• Devon milk and yoghurt mousse, winter berry sorbet, dried winter fruits and oats,berry syrup
• Winter clémentine mess, powdered brazil nuts, clémentine sorbet, vanilla oil
• Devonshire rice pudding, spiced blackberry jam, clotted cream and blackberry ripple ice cream

The best dish of all would be the lamb - it was heavenly - meat cooked to perfection (as they always say on reality cooking shows :P) - very tender and moist...lol. Beetroot and slipcote cheese is quite an interesting combination of sweet and salty - nice. Soup is nice as well. Both fish were decent, but preferred the halibut and black pudding over the mullet.

All in all it was quite a nice meal. They even gave us some sweet treats after paying - chocolate with some crispy raspberry filling, ginger and vanilla fudge. Plus, the table next to us doesn't have it! Sweet!

That said, I think I still prefer Petrus. But that was a couple of years back, maybe I have higher expectations now? lol...But then again, the Petrus meal was double the price, so can't really compare I guess. And also, as a lil' fan of Jason Atherton, I think I should also put in a little bit of biased comments - Maze is really good! :P

Total damage done: 40 quid (plus wine though)