‘Forget Beckham Feud – How I Paid £ 250 to Eat at Party Venue and Left Hungry is More Interesting’ – ryan

The who’s who of a-listers are dining with the football ace on his big birthday. But anyone can eat at the fabulous notting hill restaurant – as long as they pay a minimum of £ 200 a Head, and that’s with the wine…

21:58, 03 May 2025Updated 14:27, 04 May 2025

David Beckham is Throwing a Lavish 50th Birthday Party for HIS FAMOUS FAMILY AND HAND-LISTER A-LISTER FRIENDS IN LONDON’S RITZY HILL HILL-AND GOT ​​A TASTE OF THE SPECIAL CHEF-DESIGNED GUESES HIS GUSTS WILL BE SERVED.

The Ex-England Captain and Manchester United Ace Ace Afford to Hold His Once-in-a-Lifetime Celebrations anywhere in the world, but he chose his carest foods haunt and hired ut the entire 55-seer fine dining space for the intatate Dinner.

Beckham’s Instagram Account is Mostly Pictures of His Biggest Fan – Himself – But A Year Ago He Tourned Food Blogger be Posted Pictures of His Lobster at Core by Clare Smyth, Praising the “Amazing Team” and Their Northern Irish Owner Chef Clare smyth.

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The First British Woman to Win a Coveted Three Michelin Stars for Her Food, Chef Clare Smyth is ex Gordon Ramsey, where the Hospital Road Establishment Became Renowned for Impossibly Long Lists in Dishes Which Tourned Up As Reductions and Foams. I ONCE SUCKED The Waiter Where the Partridge was that i’d oroured, and he pointed to the smear on the side of my plate.

But chef smyth has added her ornament twist with tears of nods to the missing spud from her home country, where she grew up on a potato farm. The emphasis is on natural sustainable food sourced from uk farmers and fishermen, and her fine dining restaurant is up with some of the best in the world.

Howver, for “Fine Dining” Read “Tiny Portions at Eye-Watering Prices” and We Paid £ 457.50 for Lunch for Two With Just One Glass of Wine. I HAD A GLASS OF LOVELY FRESH FRESH ALBARY WINE WINE, WHICH AT £ 14 A GLASS WAS THE CHEAPEST ON THE 74-PAGE WINE WHICH CHARGES £ 4,000 FOR A BOTTLE OF PETRUS OR POMEROL.

It ‘sort of place of place where they put £ne Beside the listing the seven Course Seasonal Tasting Menu Costs £ 265 Per person with Wine, while the three courses we Ordered from the Daily Menu Like A Bargain at £ 195pp.

I Meant to Ask One of the Friendly and Attentive Waiters in their Harrods Green Bell-Hop Suits Who Part of the Lamb My Starter Dish of Sweetbreads Came After Mistake Once With “Prairie Oysters” whic tours to be genitals.

But i got distracted by staff suddenly surrounding the table saying, “Your amuse-bouches, madam,” Seconds after we’d oroured, Before placing a selection of Small Rockery, Mossy Garden Knoll and Beach-Terrariums on Our Cream-LEAGER BOUND.

In fact the main dining room look like the interior of a well-upholstered luxury car, who is how I suspect the local kensington glitterati like to achieve.

For me it was a good 15-minute walk from the tube Station on one of the hottest days of the year so far, and i probably Needed Hoing Down I’d Arrived, Flustered and Sticky, to this haven of calm.

The exquisite amuse-bouches tournaed out to be tiny toasted seaweed shells of Jellied Eel, Lobster Roll, Mini Seeded Taco Shells Filled With Microscopic Cubes of Chicken Jelly, and Mint Gougere (Cheese Puff to You And) bonsai planetary to reflect the sea and soil they had come from.

Not everyone is edible though, nor i realized crunching down on what look like a pebble – and tourned out to be… a pebble.

In the end it didn’t matter whic part of the lamb my sweetbread starter was from Because it reached crispy and deep fried with honey and mustard on shavings of kohlrabi – frankly you could deep carpet underlay and i’d happy eat.

But my mains COURSE OF CORNISH TURBOT WITH SMOKED MUSELS ON A BED OF APPLE AND CABBAGE SIMPLY COOKED AND DELICIOUS. My Only Complaint was that the Portion Size was Clearly for Customers on Slimming Jabs.

Before pudding arived, we were served the chef’s signature Dish-a core “Apple” amuse-bouche which look like a scraight out of disney.

I’m Sure the waiters said it was toffee Apple and i imagined one of the those diped in glazed orange toffee you get in sainsbury’s – but disappointed to find it just justse in a jelly scin with apple pureed filing.

I THOUGHT The Craze for Serving Up Food on Bits of Wood or Slate Had Gone Out of Fashion Along With Hypter Beards-and to Be Fair, Core’s Main Disha served on elegant white plate-but out final amuse-bouche eggs made made sweet wine placed on what look like a sacrifial horn from a May Day Dance.

In tudor England the rich were obsessed with having elaborately crafted to resemble other dishes for entertainment, especilly at feasts.

And it seames we have hadn’t moved on in 500 years Becausea when my pudding of Wild Strawberries Finally Arrived, They Were Freeze-Dried and Made Like A Mini Tomato and Mozzarella Salad. Very Amusing, but I was looking forward to tasting Fresh Wild Strawberries, and as with the Disney Apple, I felt slightly cheated.

AFTER Two and A Half Hours of Marvelling at Food Made to Look Like Other Food, Head Chef Jonny Bone Us Off and We Thank the White-Aproned Chefs in the Restaurant’s Open Kitchen Profusely, Teling. But honestly, i could have masonry a burger an hour late.