Lime green, but parsley in reality, the sauce offset the meaty realism of the smoked pork and potato spam-alike. The sweetness of baby tomatoes did nothing to unhinge the hautiness of the verbal slap handed to a diner by the waitress. Of course, karma kicks in quickly, as the A1 wine is served to a bunch of teenagers. Whose wine was that? Chris Jarmer - the man with his name acid-etched in the windows. ---------- Uncertain presentation belies a deliciously simple slice of snapper with crisp, sweet 'beurre rouge' - whatever. The bed of spinach only emphasises the raw energy of the snapper, but the superfluous oysters with bacon merely guild the lilly. Only there to provide 'more,' they do little for the overall dish other than try and help justify the price. ---------- Overwhelming aromas blast onto the culinary scene - the delicious deliciousness inspires my salivation - but is soon betrayed by the use of onion as the centerpiece of the dish. Onion tart, garnished with roast duck, and then more onion still, leaves the mouth aching for more than just more onion. Peasant food dressed in gourmet sauce is still just peasant food. ---------- More aromas: directional this time, but twice as powerful, and at least as good. So-called celeriac masquerades as mashed potato - more peasant food. Delicious, but for peasants nonetheless. Boiled carrots and deep-fried potato maketh not the gourmet. Simple, but good, and, at the same time, over the top in all the right ways. ---------- Ornate but essentially useless garnish finishes cream caramel flavoured with coconut for no reason other than to distinguish itself from the supermarket variety - and tinned pineapple does little to debunk the supermarket conspiracy theory. ---------- Petit fours inspire bad puns at a table of five. The meal ends with coffee ordered in the time-honoured method - "what the person before me had" - dissapointment guaranteed in writing by the management. The bearly English-speaking chef comes past for idle chatter - and this writing his hidden hastily...