I hadn’t been in London in almost a decade and it has long been one of my favorite places in the world (okay, I haven’t traveled that much, but I read an awful lot!) Regardless, I am a died-in-the-Shetland-wool Anglophile and coming to the United Kingdom always feels like I am coming home. This was going to be a short trip, only a few days in London before heading off to Barcelona and Geneva. My first visit to London was as a young adolescent, on a musical excursion with my French Horn instructor and his wife, the late Rudy Tate. That trip has since been categorized in my memory as having visited Elizabethan England with jaunts to Stratford-Upon-Avon, Hanford Court, and similar Renaissance points. My second visit, ten years ago, was a promise I made to myself; that if I ever got a Master’s degree, I would reward myself with a return to my beloved England. That trip was my journey through Roman England; a week in York, a week in Bath and neighboring Wells, and a week in London where much time was spent in the British Museum. Now I get to return to my artistic roots and explore the multiple fabulous museums and eat through the many noted restaurants…
I ate here first over two years ago with Jschyun and don’t know why I
hadn’t been back. Recently, my trainer, Lisa, and I started dining out
a lot together and she wanted some Japanese fusion so I suggested Amé.
It was Easter night and relatively empty (maybe four or five other
tables full). Wanting to taste as many flavors as possible, I cajoled
our waiter into mixing up the five-course tasting menu with a few
additional items but also by not serving both of us the exact same
five-course tasting. So, with the first course of crudo, we got two
platters; subsequently eight tastes!
1.
(Top left, clockwise) Uni on scallop, cuttlefish, potato croquette with
salmon and caviar, tuna tartare with self mix-in quail egg. Of the
four, the scallop was the winning combination.