This will be brief as I do realise there is little value in writing up a two day special. As I’ve never eaten at any of Chang’s famous New York restaurants (yes, how embarrassing), this presented an opportunity to try his food. We were hoping see his classics and fortunately the £100pp 6 course surprise menu included some of his most-written about dishes.
The meal stuttered with a couple of so-so dishes at the start, but quickly got better (and better) as it crept to the finish. The rice cakes were tasty and the Bo Ssam (with extra pork rib eye) was absolutely epic. No cereal milk ice cream or crack pie however, as we finished with Fergus’ Dr Henderson. Lovely all the same. Definitely delicious cooking.
We drank a couple of glasses of wine and a glass of sake (recommended for the fish) each, and paid £276.75 for two. Expensive for what it was but then again most one-offs are.
How long before Momofuku makes its way to London then?
Pork Bun
Mackerel, Masago & Mackerel Oil
Eel Dashi, Peas & Samphire
Spicy Rice Cakes, Shallots & Choi Sam
Pork Shoulder & Ribeye, Kimchi, Lettuce, Oysters
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Hi, love your blog and nearly always fully agree with the reviews, just wondering/suggesting if you have ever thought about doing some kind of search by area or map function? Quite a lot of times I’ve wanted to find somewhere to eat constrained by why I’m doing before or afterwards and it would make this a lot easier.
Hope this is a useful comment, as I said, love the reviews
Hi Mamie – Glad to hear you enjoy the blog. Yes, you are not the first to request this, and I did once try my hand at building a google maps enabled page that would be able to show all the places I’ve written about. Sadly, it was quite a challenge and I never got round to finishing that project. But perhaps with new advancement in web tech, there might be easier ways to integrate so I will consider resurrecting this idea.
Hi Kang L,
Gotta say.. I went there as well.. was super excited to check out David Chang and his dishes and was thoroughly disappointed. Dishes were good, but not great. Pork bun, yum; the eel dashi was impressive, but everything else was so-so. Ice cream for dessert at $100 pp was really unbelievably shocking to me, even as a one off. I say this as a Korean wanting the guy to have impressed.. I will however, still check him out in Toronto.
Love your blog!