#Abacus chinese restaurant menu free#

He experiences luxury in life and little else. He is Simon's regular travelling companion & confidant. Issy is a Beanie Baby who was a gift from the Founder of Four Seasons' office. He loves Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, The Dorchester and Veuve Clicquot.

There are funny stories attached to all these interactions, feel free to ask Si about them when you meet him. During this time he met Whoopi Goldberg (in Claridge's), Mike Tyson (in the Concorde Lounge at JFK), Gordon Ramsay (in the Doha Four Seasons), Chris Eubanks (in The Dorchester), Cherie Blair (in Bermuda & again in the Doha Four Seasons) etc. Si Frew has lived in the UK, Bermuda, Qatar, Cyprus & the Cayman Islands. Hope the photos below illustrate why both meals were '7 teddies' (🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 ) experiences. It is said to be one of the best restaurants in Panama. Tonight I take my perfect Panama host to Maito in Panama City, to thank him. Both dishes were delicious & I wanted to lick the plate after the beef.

I had the shrimp & piangua (a mangrove swamp delight!) with black garlic paste & leeks as a starter and the paletero (shoulder) beef with romaine lettuce, culona (leaf-cutter) ants & native potatoes crisps. I intend to get the beautiful Leo menu framed, after I get back to LondonĮl Chato is also a beautiful restaurant with playful & interesting waiters. There I was made a No 10 Territorio cocktail. It was an interesting and fun culinary journey and made even better by meeting Sommelier Laura, Head of Social Media Juan Pablo and Chef Espinosa herself at the end of the meal at the bar upstairs. Strangely, I preferred the duck to the pork dish. I opted for the alcohol pairing and the meal was a succession of exquisite and mouthwatering small dishes with stories about antioxidants, potency & falling in love.ĭishes like the guinea fowl, tallo, maize & kipu seemed be a play on the classic chicken & corn. Issy quickly fell foul of her strict 'no toys or bags' rule. Leo is a temple to fine dining and Chef Leonor Espinosa was in the kitchen and very hands-on. They were different but I had some of the best meals of my life at both. The food was nowhere near worth the price and the waiter started collecting our payment in the middle of us still eating our lunch! And then mixed up some of our payments.I tried restaurants Leo & El Chato in Bogota. The only compensation we got for the mixup was free drinks along with our $18 buffet. There was also a waitress standing at the dessert table shoooing us away and telling us that desserts were extra. It was very uncomfortable for us to parade through the testeraunt with our large group from the private room. Then we had to take her own plate into the dining room with the restaurant but could only go one table at a time as not to 'disrupt' the other customers that were eating for lunch. The manager never came to apologize or clear it up and sent the Waiter instead, and told us we were to get food from the catering dishes first so we wouldn't inconvenience the lunch rush. There was a miscommunication about whether we were eating a catered meal or in the buffet with the general public in the restaurant. I was there recently for lunch with a big group so they seated us in the private room.

#Abacus chinese restaurant menu free#