{"id":826,"date":"2012-09-28T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/?p=826"},"modified":"2012-09-30T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T08:33:39","slug":"brasserie-blanc-on-a-perfect-thursday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2012\/09\/28\/brasserie-blanc-on-a-perfect-thursday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Brasserie Blanc on a perfect Thursday evening."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this day we were waiting for a long time. We booked the tickets to Royal Festival Hall back in May to hear Beethoven&#8217;s 9th Symphony live, so there had to be a nice dinner before that.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond&#8217;s place got picked shortly after he popped in to Dinings a while ago, the fact that his restaurant is a walking distance from the RFH mattered too.<\/p>\n<p>Very, very pleasant place. Florek picked a bottle of Pinot Noir, for a starter we shared a steak tartare, very bravely seasoned, lots of mustard and capers, have to try it at Mum&#8217;s! With a baguette it was great. For the mains Florek had a hake, I went for the grilled scallops on a truffle mash.There was some baked fennel as well, not my thing though, it tasted like a bottle of perfume. Scallops though- fantastic. Maybe even second most awesome scallops dish ever, after those that Goemon made for us in Dinings last time, when we went with Moka. Goemon&#8217;s scallops sat in the truffle soy sauce and had some crispy parma ham on top, the only problem with them was the amount- 3 scallops for the 3 of us.Anyway, those today were spot on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2012\/09\/photo123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-827\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2012\/09\/photo123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For dessert we went for Baked Alaska, something I&#8217;ve seen on Masterchef plenty of times, but never tried. It was nice, I love grand marnier and our waiter presented it in a nice way. He was so cool, that we invited him to share it with us, which he enthusiastically did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2012\/09\/photo122.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-828\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/files\/2012\/09\/photo122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good thing is, that there is Brasserie Blanc in Cheltenham as well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this day we were waiting for a long time. We booked the tickets to Royal Festival Hall back in May to hear Beethoven&#8217;s 9th Symphony live, so there had to be a nice dinner before that. Raymond&#8217;s place got picked shortly after he popped in to Dinings a while ago, the fact that his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/2012\/09\/28\/brasserie-blanc-on-a-perfect-thursday-evening\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brasserie Blanc on a perfect Thursday evening.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eaten-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.xs4all.co.uk\/tablefortwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}