New Year’s Eve Dinner in London – One O One Restaurant

Since we had planned our New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day stay at the Park Tower Knightsbridge Hotel, I also booked ourselves a nice New Year’s Eve dinner at the hotel’s 3 AA Rosette rated restaurant, One O One Restaurant. Known as one of the best seafood restaurants in London, Chef Pascal Proyart is passionate about seafood and has been at helmed at One O One Restaurant since 1998.

New Year’s Eve special menu priced at £99+ per person (as a discretionary 12.5% service charge would be added to the final bill), with 7 courses delicately planned for the special event. Starting from the Appetiser, with the cured & smoked Salmon served with Beetroot, Caviar, Rillettes, Celeriac and Lemon. Then we moved on to my favourite dish of the night, Lobster and Squid Riceless Risotto with Scallop, Cauliflower, Tapioca and Veloute. The Risotto was infused with extremely flavoursome foams and sauce that left me wanting for more!

Next up, we had the Halibut and Abalone with Sunchokes and Sea Spinach. The fish was cooked to perfection and we particularly loved the Sunchokes, as it was such a unique texture and tasted great with the rest of the plate. Our main course was the Beef Venison with Foie Gras, Carrot, Watercress and Truffle, which the beef was tender and juicy and the Foie Gras was strong in flavour.

Desserts

By this time, after 4 courses, we were already quite full although the portions looked small. We had 3 desserts soon after, Sorbet Fromage Frais with Champagne & Passion Fruit, as well as 55% Manjari Chocolate Pave with Gold Leaf, Nougat, Pistachio and Kulfi Saffron Ice Cream, before ended our dinner with Chef’s signature chocolate truffle and Petit Four. Dessert wise, I loved the Sorbet as I’m sucker for cold stuff but Big Teddy loved the Chocolate Pave with the fancy Gold Leaf.

Final Word

The final bill came up to £307 with a bottle of £65 white wine. It was a lovely dinner and we thoroughly enjoyed it from the beginning to the end. There were so much different great tastes and sensations going on with all those dishes. After the dinner, we retired back to our panoramic room upstairs and watched the whole London New Year’s fireworks on TV and partially from our room.

Despite the slightly unpleasant experience when I made the table booking for two in late November, where I had to go through the whole difficult process of signing credit card authorisation form and indemnity form which I felt that the restaurant could have upgraded to better online web services that could take care of all those manual paper forms instead of signing and emailing back and forth, still this dining experience at One O One Restaurant was definitely a highlight of our London New Year’s celebration this year.

Official Website: http://www.oneoonerestaurant.com/
Address: The Park Tower Knightsbridge Hotel, 101 Knightsbridge, Belgravia, London SW1X 7RN, UK
Tel: +44 20 7290 7101

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