L'Ortolan (Reading)

• Alan Murchison was in charge of the kitchen
• Both visits were 5 years apart
• What I can remember from both meals was that the food was overworked and the pricing was very ambitious
• I was also particularly annoyed with the wine service &ndash
• We were presented with a dusty bottle and the waiter did not have a Scooby how to handle the wine with a lot of sediment poured into the glass
• Perhaps it was an off night or perhaps it was because L&rsquo
• S 10 in 8 Group was heading towards liquidation
• Ortolan after 13 years and in his place is his former protege Tom Clarke

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