{"id":2861,"date":"2011-11-16T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2011-11-16T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:01:35","slug":"my-vision-of-love-also-dinner-by-heston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"My Vision of Love: Also Dinner by Heston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 16th<\/sup> November 2011<\/p>\n

How to explain, how to explain my vision of Love? Leonardo was the root of it, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

So perhaps first of all, to delay, let me tell you about Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. That\u2019s the name of the restaurant, lodged within the so-called Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Knightsbridge, directly opposite H Nicks.<\/p>\n

You know those 5 star hotels, seething with suspect money and rich tourists in nothing clothes, no whiff of normality. We were in the private room, which is library red with massive door knocker-type wall lights, gazing through glass panels at a lot of sports jackets. Only on the way out were two dollies, perhaps Russian, tottering into the bar in dolly clothes and 8 inch heels.<\/p>\n

There were five courses, all British, from different historical periods: the second was a mandarin with leaves on a board, only it was pat\u00e9 and the \u2018peel\u2019 was an orange jelly of some kind. In the 16th<\/sup> century such food illusions were popular. The Tipsy Pudding was from the 19th<\/sup> century and had been re-modelled by Heston with brioche. Someone has to sit up all night and monitor its oven progress every three minutes, then judge the insertion of alcohol. Many confections fail, collapsing under the strain of the drink.<\/p>\n

The result was a fairly uneventful bread\/cake with the power to knock you across the room from the added spirit.<\/p>\n

I love Heston; he\u2019s absolutely off his head.<\/p>\n

The Multis arranged this now engraved evening. How shall we ever forget it? The wines they ordered were some of the greatest known. I\u2019m sorry to say it was a subscription dinner. I was let off since it was given for my birthday six weeks ago but \u00a32600 was total. I hear that the priceless Multis underwrote and bailed out to a considerable extent. A large JCB, its scooper full of cash, was seen manoeuvring into the hotel at the end.<\/p>\n

O! my vision of Love \u2013 may it come into words when called!<\/p>\n

\"Meat

Meat Fruit Illusion at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Tuesday 8th November 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Door-Knocker

Door-Knocker Type Wall Light in Private Room at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Knightsbridge, London <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Non-Private

Non-Private Room Diners at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Seen Through Glass from the Private Room<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dinner

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal: Menu Part 1<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dinner

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal: Menu Part 2<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dinner

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal: Menu Part 3<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 16th November 2011 How to explain, how to explain my vision of Love? Leonardo was the root of it, I\u2019m sure. So perhaps first of all, to delay, let me tell you about Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. That\u2019s the name of the restaurant, lodged within the so-called Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Knightsbridge, directly opposite H […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrain-edge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poorlittlerichgays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}