Lovers could fork out eye-watering £749 for Valentine’s Day feast at Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant Dinner
TELLY chef Heston Blumenthal is serving up a St Valentine’s Day bank balance massacre – a £749.10 dinner for two.
The popular cook is charging £135 per person for his romantic grub on the special day.
And he is offering wine options that customers might find hard to swallow.
Diners hoping to treat their loved ones can splurge £105 person on his cheapest wine pairing or go for his £195 a head “prestige” plonk at his swanky London eatery Dinner.
That works out at £660 for the food and dearest wine, plus a 13.5% service charge that takes the bill to a whopping £749.10.
Heston’s menu is truffle and mushroom parfait and grilled bread, almond, saffron, veal sweetbreads and smoked eel, duck with red cabbage and pickled cherries or salmon dressed in Champagne with roasted leek, parsley, caviar and seaweed butter.
Pudding is smoked walnut mousse with poached pear, salted caramel and vanilla ice cream.
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The set menu at the two Michelin-starred restaurant in Knightsbridge includes a glass of sparkling rose per person.
A recent diner said of the joint on TripAdvisor: “Absolutely fabulous from start to finish. My partner and I had the tasting menu, which did not disappoint.
“Each dish was exquisite in taste and the paired wines complimented the flavours perfectly. Of course it's very pricey, but in my opinion completely worth every penny for the food, experience and service.”
But another wrote: “Sadly I’m really surprised this restaurant has 2 Michelin stars.
"It just isn’t up to standard to have one. The food is average.
"There’s not much more I can add.
"In a 2 Michelin star restaurant you expect great service, surprises in between courses (the surprise was that there was nothing .. ).”
Another diner said: "Average with a high price point, standard food , little or no wow , don’t expect fat duck menu , all very ordinary.
"Service was particularly poor, my wife’s food would be explained whilst no explanation was offered to me, my food came disjointed, not all the elements on the plate due to the kitchen being busy, arrived 5 minutes apart.
"How it can leave the kitchen missing elements is strange and not worthy of a Michelin star kitchen.
"Then to be given a £52 service charge, when service was so poor."
