A birthday treat and oh, what a treat! This is our most visited restaurant of all time although of late trips have been less frequent for various reasons. We charged our wallets and put on our best clothes ready for a fine afternoon’s indulgence with...full intentions of blowing the budget. Slipping back into this place is like a pair of comfy, familiar shoes but still with the wonder and anticipation of what is to come. Well, firstly some fresh as you like, immaculately prepared oysters that can only benefit from a helping of fizzy lube. I went for the scallop ceviche with grapefruit, pomegranate, chilli and BANG what a mouthful of flavour, coupled with the perfect soft, succulent, slithers of scallop (easy for you to say) this has to be my best ever raw dish. In my mouth/mind it was partytime with the most beautiful women, the best music the anticipation of the night ahead and the distant memory of youth when nights extended past 11pm. My main of halibut with smoked eel and morels was cooked to perfection with the fish superbly flaking and the earthy fungi and Smokey eel adding to a dish greater than the sum of its parts. Champagne flow coming towards the end we shared the Irish apple tart and, yet again, what a triumph. The bitterness of the apple was a revelation to me, and finished off a gut busting fishy feast of mega proportion. I don’t think it is normal to have every dish/course so perfect and to one’s complete satisfaction but that’s what happened today. It was my meal of the last year without question, and we have been to some top restaurants in that time, including multi-star places. I have to be fair, complained before about prices here, but this time I have no complaints. Apart from I can’t afford to eat here every week.More