Lumière

Clarence Parade

Cheltenham GL50 3PA

BY NEAL MARTIN |

The Food: 

Canapés: Taramasalata, cucumber, lemon and Avruga caviar with squid ink tuile; ‘Coronation Chicken’; Truffled ‘Mac & Cheese’ with Black Garlic and Old Winchester

Meadowland smoked eel, red Desirée apple, caviar with smoked Pepper Dulce

Red Mullet with fennel, coriander and St. Austell mussels

Asparagus with morels, chicken, black truffle and sherry

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Lumière is a pertinent reminder that this country has fostered a raft of brilliant chefs in recent years, many out in provincial towns. I wish we had our own Lumière where I live in Guildford! This is haut cuisine at a high level without the pretension one occasionally finds.