Summary
It's not the usual place he'd pop in for a pint, but Journal beer writer Alastair Gilmour finds inspiration and education at a top hotel in the company of chef-proprietor Raymond Blanc
Every sense gets a look-in on the long, straight path leading to Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons.See the full content of this document
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Wort to the Weisse
The brush of lavender on leg, the honey-coloured manor house view, the aroma of woodsmoke that reconstitutes itself as roast lamb the closer you get, the dribble of rousing saliva and the warble of treetop birdsong blending with the purr of parked Jaguar.
The restaurant and country house hotel near Oxford, owned and run by the extraordinary Raymond Blanc, is regarded as one of the best in Europe and one the few restaurants in the world to have retained two Michelin stars for 22 years (its four AA red stars, five AA ro...See the full content of this document
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