Eat Out London!Ametsa with Arzak Instruction
The one Michelin Star Basque restaurant is located at COMO The Halkin in London’s Belgravia.
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While in London, I was super excited to try the Ametsa with Arzak Instruction Restaurant which specializes in cuisine from the Basque region of Spain.
Pierre Loves strong and spicy food, and this is exactly what the food was at the Ametsa with Arzak Instruction Restaurant.
In conclusion, I would highly recommend you to visit the Ametsa with Arzak Instruction Restaurant inside of The Halkin as soon as possible, it was definitely one of the top meals of my life!
While in London, I was super excited to try the Ametsa with Arzak Instruction Restaurant which specializes in cuisine from the Basque region of Spain.
The restaurant is located inside The Halkin by COMO hotels in… COMO The Halkin, London, The Halkin by Como, Halkin Hotel London, Halkin St, Belgravia, London SW1X 7DJ, UK
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She isn't cooking at Ametsa, but has apparently been heavily involved – hence the 'Arzak Instruction' (a subtitle that carries the unfortunate echo of those cards placed in phone boxes by discipline-minded ladies).
The most outré dish of the lunch was a dessert called 'moon rocks', chocolate-coated pebbles of freeze-dried orange and Cointreau, on a grey 'sand' of powdered black and white sesame seeds.
The Arzaks have apparently incorporated the best of British ingredients at Ametsa, rather than just importing local produce from San Sebastian, and it may be that dishes that sing and soar there just don't work quite as well here.
Ametsa with Arzak Instruction The Halkin Hotel Halkin Street London SW1 (020-7333 1234).
All tips and service charge go to the staff' The produce at this award-winning Spanish deli and tapas bar all comes from artisan producers – baby squid pan-fried in garlic butter served with salsa verde is a typically delicious dish.
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Since the 1970s, the three-Michelin-starred restaurant Arzak, in San Sebastián, run by the father and daughter team of Juan Mari and Elena Arzak, has been a center of modern Basque cooking.
In March, with a team from their consultancy Arzak Instruction and the chef Sergio Sanz, the pair oversaw the opening of Ametsa — Basque for “dream” — in London’s sleek Halkin hotel.
What arrived was three sweet, perfectly seared scallops alongside a glossy sheet of gelled carrot rolled around a green salad, the plate garnished with crumbs of dehydrated squid ink.
And there’s a fondness for toasty ancillary flavors: the squid ink crumbs, the lamb’s coffee wrapper, the milk skin.
Ametsa With Arzak Instruction, The Halkin, 5 Halkin Street, London; (44-20) 7333-1234; Dinner for two, without wine but including service, is about £125 ($180 at $1.44 to the pound); tasting menu, £105 ($155) per person.
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Xabier Gutierrez was the head of the development kitchen on the top floor of the San Sebastian restaurant before moving to London.
Mikael Sorazu, also from the development kitchen, is the chef de cuisine at Ametsa and Igor Zalakain was sous chef at Arzak.
The cheese had little flavour and seemed merely puzzling as a nibble, the crisps were pleasant, the rockfish mousse decent (13/20 for the rockfish).
French toast (£12.50) with mango and coconut was just odd, a little burnt in places, the tropical fruit flavour not coming through enough (12/20).
In the evening, with a modest wine, the bill would weigh in at about £100 a head, much more if you had the tasting menu.
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She isn't cooking at Ametsa, but has apparently been heavily involved – hence the 'Arzak Instruction' (a subtitle that carries the unfortunate echo of those cards placed in phone boxes by discipline-minded ladies).
The most outré dish of the lunch was a dessert called 'moon rocks', chocolate-coated pebbles of freeze-dried orange and Cointreau, on a grey 'sand' of powdered black and white sesame seeds.
The Arzaks have apparently incorporated the best of British ingredients at Ametsa, rather than just importing local produce from San Sebastian, and it may be that dishes that sing and soar there just don't work quite as well here.
Ametsa with Arzak Instruction The Halkin Hotel Halkin Street London SW1 (020-7333 1234).
All tips and service charge go to the staff' The produce at this award-winning Spanish deli and tapas bar all comes from artisan producers – baby squid pan-fried in garlic butter served with salsa verde is a typically delicious dish.
Restaurant review: Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, London - Telegraph
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Much like Dr Martin Luther King before her, Basque superchef Elena Arzak has a dream: “a kitchen beyond our frontiers in the middle of London in the heart of the Halkin hotel”.
While this has a less utopian ring than the good doctor’s promised land (it will, one presumes, be of more interest to Arzak’s accountant than her analyst), it has at least proved easier to realise: for Ametsa – which, spookily enough, means “dream” in Arzak’s native tongue – is already with us.
The three-star restaurant in San Sebastián where Arzak works with her father Juan Mari was ranked eighth in the world in last year’s Sam Pellegrino awards; she herself was named Best Female Chef (Dad had to make do with a Lifetime Achievement Award).
Sat directly parallel with the electric doors beyond the foyer, so that blasts of night air incessantly wafted over, inviting the traditional cry of “Knee blanket to table 17”, we sank gloomily into the chasm between Arzak’s stellar reputation and the drabness of her food.
The only element of my beef fillet with “aged red wine” that had more to say than a weary “meh” were the thin, golden discs of pineapple alternating with potato circles in a delicate line.
Restaurant: Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, London SW1 | Life and ...
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That terrible name in full: Ametsa with Arzak Instruction.
Because the reason yer foodie is getting their bowels in an uproar is that this is the first ever venture outside his native San Sebastian for legendary three-Michelined chef, culinary innovator, worldwide influencer and father of "la nueva cocina Vasca", Juan Mari Arzak with his daughter, Elena.
The scene is set by the contrived aperitivos on their steel contraptions: a trademark scorpion fish lollipop thing, wrapped in Weetabix-like kataifi pastry; puffed rice wafers sandwiching a fish mousse about as thrilling as tuna mayo; and, weirdest of all, what's described as "cheese puzzle", the puzzle being why anyone would want to torture good cheese until it tasted like ossified Dairylea and looked like a Wall's Funny Feet ice lolly.
Another signature dish is "From egg to chicken": one of those low-temperature eggs, with a crackly "paper" made from yolk, surrounded by crisp crumbs of chicken skin with a whiff of truffle.
• Ametsa with Arzak Instruction Halkin Hotel, Halkin Street, London SW1, 020-7333 1234.
Ametsa with Arzak Instruction | Restaurants in Belgravia, London
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This Michelin-starred Spanish restaurant at COMO The Halkin hotel comes from the Arzak family - famed for their eponymous, three Michelin-starred restaurant in San Sebastian, Spain.
Ametsa offers a similarly intricate showcase of New Basque cuisine, with contemporary interpretations of classic dishes from the north-east of Spain.
The menu might include dishes such as seasonal vegetables with sesame and summer truffle, grouse with dry apricot mousse and golden berries, suckling pig on a bed of carob crumbs, and leche 'tostada' con helado de piña asada - a Spanish dessert of clove custard, toasted milk and pineapple ice cream.
A tasting menu - with or without wine pairing - is available alongside the a la carte at dinner, with a set lunch menu (currently £29 for two courses) offering a more accessible option.
Sherries and Spanish wine dominate the wine list.