Happy New Year From London

This year, I am not going to be in London to celebrated New Years ( sigh!),
But here is ( to dream about) the New Years Menu at the best hotel in London, The Goring Hotel.

Hosted by the affable managing director

Mr.David Morgan-Hewitt

Champagne cocktails.

Canapés

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Oak smoked salmon with a smoked salmon mousse and caviar

Hot Californian asparagus with hollandaise sauce

Carpaccio of cauliflower with a caraway dressing, tomato tartare, tomato sorbet and chervil

Tartare of Leyburn venison with marinated beetroot and black pepper soured cream

Roast parsnip and heather honey soup

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Grilled fillet of sea bass with a wild fennel sauce

Poached fillets of Dover sole in a lobster sauce

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Breast of Yorkshire pheasant with caramelized apples, braised red cabbage,

Calvados sauce and fondant potato

Fillet of Castle of Mey beef with spring greens, wild mushrooms,

a red wine sauce and fondant potato

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British cheese with fig chutney

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Dark chocolate ganache with caramelized banana and tangerine sorbet

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Coffee and petits fours

Bollinger, Special Cuvée, Aÿ

Here also is the celebration on BBC1 from last years New Years Eve to get you in the mood

                                Hope you and yours have a fantastic 2010!
                                                          ~ H.E. Lewis