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<topic>
  <id>531514</id>
  <title>Gordon Ramsay?</title>
  <published_at>Sun Jun 22 10:40:11 -0700 2008</published_at>
  <post_count>7</post_count>
  <board>
    <id>2</id>
    <name>Los Angeles Area</name>
  </board>
  <posts>
    <post>
      <post>
        <level>0</level>
        <id>3802348</id>
        <content>Anyone been? Prices? Are reso's hard to get?</content>
        <published_at>Sun Jun 22 10:40:12 -0700 2008</published_at>
        <parent_id></parent_id>
        <user>
          <id>184819</id>
          <name>winesnob73</name>
        </user>
      </post>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>3802471</id>
      <content>http://www.google.com/search?q=gordon+ramsey+weho+chowhound+london&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a</content>
      <published_at>Sun Jun 22 11:37:30 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>3802348</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>91179</id>
        <name>ns1</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>2</level>
      <id>3802951</id>
      <content>Or rather:
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/523965
</content>
      <published_at>Sun Jun 22 15:01:33 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>3802471</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>28703</id>
        <name>RicRios</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>3805601</id>
      <content>I posted this review about a week or so ago.

http://www.chowhound.com/topics/530729

I actually am psyched to go back, not the best meal ever, but enough high points -- pork belly, a fascinatingly tacky environment and a great rose champagne by the glass -- to make it really fun.</content>
      <published_at>Mon Jun 23 11:47:28 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>3802348</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>151099</id>
        <name>la tache burger</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>1</level>
      <id>4065285</id>
      <content>Went tonight.  Loved, loved the room.  Loved the service.  Loved the wine list.  Wasn't super wowed by what I ordered.  Burrata mozzarella with heirloom tomatoes - tomatoes not that great (although I think it has been a bad year for tomatoes).  Almond soup - just plain didn't like.  Actually couldn't eat my third course because I had eaten too much of the really good bread and delicious butter and was stuffed by the time the third course arrived.  (I've read people say the courses are really small, but I didn't find them so).  Would definitely give it another try just because I liked the room, service and wine list so much.</content>
      <published_at>Fri Sep 26 22:39:54 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>3802348</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>27951</id>
        <name>omotosando</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>2</level>
      <id>4065446</id>
      <content>I find it interesting that you were full by the third course. As I posted before (http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/523627), I had 10 courses and still wasn't that full.

A lot of people (including me) initially complained about portion size, so I wonder if they've significantly revamped the menu since my last visit: http://www.kevineats.com/2008/05/gordon-ramsay-at-london-west-hollywood.htm

I checked the menu online (http://gordonramsay.com/gratthelondonwh/menus/alacarte/) and it still looks very similar to what I encountered. Is this what you saw at the restaurant as well?</content>
      <published_at>Sat Sep 27 03:54:51 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>4065285</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>54503</id>
        <name>kevin h</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>3</level>
      <id>4066635</id>
      <content>The menu looks very similar, although I don't see the almond soup that I ordered on it.  I thought the Burrata mozzarella with heirloom tomatoes appetizer was huge.  The almond soup was somewhat more dainty.  Again, maybe it was that excellent bread and butter (and wine), but I literally could not take a bite of my third course.  (By the way, I read your review and saw that the only bread you got was baguettes.  That apparently has changed.  We didn't get baguettes - we got sliced bread, including a raisin nut bread).  Because I didn't touch my third course, the waiter was concerned and asked if something was wrong with it.  And I wouldn't consider myself a particuarly dainty eater.  Maybe it was the pot of tea I ordered waiting for my dining companions who were late.  But my dining companions both ordered two courses to my three and were satisfied.

By the way, my third course was the Pan-fried Arctic char with orzo, pickled Japanese mushrooms and dashi (which I ended up having for breakfast this morning).  The portion I got seemed bigger than the portion you photographed on your blog, although I can't tell if that is just perhaps the camera angle you used.  My burrata mozzarella with heirloom tomatoes appetizer also seemed bigger than the portion you photographed.  Perhaps they have slightly increased the portions.

And again, I loved the wine list and the sommelier (female) was great.  Friendly, helpful, enthusiastic, not at all snobby.  A welcome change from say, the idiot I encountered a few months at the French Laundry in Napa, whose advice consisted of, "you might want to start with a white and then switch to a red."


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      <published_at>Sat Sep 27 17:33:35 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>4065446</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>27951</id>
        <name>omotosando</name>
      </user>
    </post>
    <post>
      <level>4</level>
      <id>4089913</id>
      <content>A response like that at FL?!  Say it ain't so!

I'm off to Gordon Ramsay at the London very soon - will report back!</content>
      <published_at>Wed Oct 08 01:39:06 -0700 2008</published_at>
      <parent_id>4066635</parent_id>
      <user>
        <id>11933</id>
        <name>J.L.</name>
      </user>
    </post>
  </posts>
</topic>
