Alright All,
Not had much really to say the last few weeks, it has been very busy with both year end parties and one of the restaurants, (the fine dine is still being finalised, hope to open that in a few months)
Not feeling at all festive the shopping malls are all done up but Africa just doesnt seem Christmasy and with the heat no chance of a White Christmas!!
Good thing is we have done all these large functions and no Turkey so unlike most of you guys in the UK i havent cooked any Turkey and doesnt look like we will until i do my Beer Basted Turkey Xmas Day!!
Ha-Ha i dont miss Turkey Dinners at all...............
Had to make a decision on the crappy side of the job and let one of my Sous Chefs go i had been watching him for a couple of months and he just does not do what a Sous should, he has "lost the dressing room" to coin a cheesy footy phrase and the boys have lost respect for him along with a few other things i decided to change things around.
On the plus side my Jnr Sous Ephraim can now step up and i hope grow and i have had the chance to promote one of my CDP's George who has been with me a while to Jnr Sous he can now take on a little more and hopefully we can develop these 2 lads. its something i have been looking at for some time as i didnt want to lose him as he grew......so its up to him now we are all right behind the boys to make things happen.
On a happier note it was my ?? birthday last Sunday so i took 2 days off/together for the first time in ages and had 2 great days with Ania and my daughter Kasia who will be 1 in January, had a nice meal in a cool new Japanese restaurant on their Teppanyaki table we had the seafood menu, amonst others things we had lovely well cooked King Prawns, Lobster and Grouper and then a nice really creamy rice pudding with hot caramelised pineapple from the Teppanyaki Grill,
Until you have had Pineapple here in Kenya you havent really had it, Del Monte have pineapple farms as far as the eye can see just outside Nairobi, one of my suppliers grows for Del Monte too and when he first came in with samples i could litterally smell the fruit before he reached the kitchen, so tasty.
I have worked on a Pineapple tasting plate for the fine dine, should be nice.............
Last night we went to the new kid on Nairobi's food scene Seven Seafood Bar and Grill, food was ok but the service was far from it, it went a lot like this;
Sat for around 20mins with wine list and menu,with not much attention from anyone,
Ordered some Reisling Wine, waiter came back, Sorry and reccomended a very similar wine in a Chenin Blanc!!!!???? in place of a Reisling???!! Where's Oz Clarke when you need him!
So....ordered the grossly marked up Gerwurtztraminer and guess what............
Then we settled for an Italian Trebbiano which was nothing to Blog Home About,
Ordered food some bread came and then our starters, 2 Calamari which was tasty and well cooked with a little Salsa Verde,
They then brought some dips and oils which the lady proudly said go really well with the bread which they had cleared 5 minutes before!!.......anyway....
Main course Ania had the Giant Prawns and me the New York Striploin Aged,
Prawns were top notch, nice and fresh and well cooked,
The medium steak came woefully overcooked the juices that were left running brown!!
The manager looked in horror as he knew the cock-ups had just gone into overkill he was good and after the waiter was told it was overcooked (and not medium as he kept telling me it was)
anyhow after Ania had already started i tiold them not to worry i would go with it, to be fair it was sort of tasty and not a bad piece of meat just a bad pair of hands had looked after it.
And as i fancied something sweet onto dessert, Chocolate Brownie with nutty Semifreddo and the old favourite Chocolate Fondant with Baileys for Ania.
I noticed a cheeky Sauternes by the glass so ordered one each with Pud,
And.............guess what no Sauternes so we plumped for a Muscat which was very nice but would have tasted a lot better with the dessert and not after they cleared the table!!
All in all not bad food just poor untrained service!!
Had a cheeky Double Espresso to finish which said it came with a trio of Petit Four think they had given up then and had left the P4's with the Riesling, My Medium Steak and the Sauternes.
But was still nice evening spent away from work and with the girls....................
Im really excited as we are due to fly home January 1st and have some great meals booked with Steve-O
Im also waiting to hear if i have a table confirmed at El Bulli.!!! Watch this space for an update...............
ChefBennett01 has told me to put more pictures up as soon as im more confident on the posting of them i will do my best!
Catch you all soon,
Ill try and post at least a Christnas Wish to you all before the time,
Roll on 1st of January ive got my shorts and flip flops packed its warm in UK isnt it???
Kevin
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