That Was The Week That Was

Marco Pierre White must be making quite a packet since he jumped into His Gordoness’s shoes hosting Hell’s Kitchen on TV,  enough to allow him to sell three of his top restaurants. He has flogged iconic London fine-dining restaurants The Mirabelle, Drones and Quo Vadis to entrepreneurs Stephen Schaffer and Joseph Ettedgui. “We are very excited to have acquired The Mirabelle,” Schaffer said. “With its storied history, fantastic Mayfair location, and unique private landscaped terrace, it is well-placed to shine as a modern-day Mayfair icon.” Schaffer and Ettedgui will announce their full plans for the upgrading of the restaurant, which opened in 1936, in early 2008. The three restaurants were part of White Star Lines, which White set up in 1999 with Jimmy Lahoud. It also owns L’Escargot, the Belvedere and Criterion
So with all that spare cash burning a hole in his pocket perhaps Marco could be tempted to pop across the pond to New York for a dessert billed as the “most expensive dessert in the world.”, at Serendipity 3 in Manhatten’s Upper East Side. The home of the world famous frozen hot chocolate, Serendipity, announced this week that they’ve set a Guinness Book record. For  $25K  you get “a blend of 28 cocoas (14 from the most exotic and rare places in the world) and five grams of edible 24-carat gold, served in a goblet lined with edible gold and eaten with a solid 18-carat gold spoon encrusted with diamonds. There is also an 18-carat gold “crown” on the goblet that when removed turns into a bracelet that the buyer gets to keep, along with the spoon who’s diamonds are black, brown, and white created by Euphoria in NYC. The whole thing is topped with a whipped cream and shaved truffles from France.” What a load of bollocks

Speaking of carrots Terry Pendred has unearthed an odd-shaped vegetable or two in his time – but never one in the shape of a woman! The 76-year-old was taken aback when he pulled a voluptuous looking 4lbs 12oz carrot out of his back garden allotment. He said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw it, it certainly is unusual..it came from a row of carrots which have all been misshapen, but they were nothing like this. I have grown rude shaped carrots before, but they are normally look like males!”