This is a once in a life time experience for many. Luckily I tend to have these experiences often and The Fat Duck is one of my favourite places. The food is always exquisite. I cannot recommend one dish as I love them all, the...freshness and seasonality is key when delivering great food such as this. Highly recommend.More

Booked a table for my husbands 30th and my gosh it did not disappoint!.... though we did feel the odd Norfolk couple in the corner (but we are used to that!) The moto of the restaurant QUESTION EVERYTHING do question everything even if it how...to pour the water from the really posh fancy look water jugs 😂 (we don't get out much!!!) But its something off our bucket list! We love Hestons work have watched all his programmes and always wanted to visit the fat duck for the experience and it DEFINITELY didn't disappoint!. The food was mind blowing 🤯 literally! We had the anthology menu celebrating 25yrs of the restaurant so we had an amazing taster of the menu from the past 25 yrs and our favourite meal was the "snail porridge"... I know... snail yes fine but the porridge part! But honestly tasty as! The 1 thing that blew my mind was the "Crab icecream" yep I said it Crab icecream I love crab us Norfolk folk live for Cromer crabs! Can't go to the seaside without a crab! So to have crab icecream 😳... it felt so wrong but amazing at the same time!. Honestly so want to go again! We drank plenty of wine to each complemented the dish we where eating... the staff where amazing especially once they noticed we weren't used to being waited on and having needs met! Our meals out normally consist of the pub just up the road in the small Norfolk village in which we live!. But to anyone reading this from little ole Norfolk and you want to experience this DO IT... go on the site and book your table now! Pictures... Snail porridge and crab ice cream 😳😂❤😍More

I will agree with several other reviews here, that this is a stripped back version of the former glory days, so if you are returning to the Fat Duck you may want to enjoy the lasting memory you had, and not return until after Covid....It’s a ‘greatest hits’ menu at the moment, so many dishes we had tried before and still as good as first time I.e Sound of the sea, snail porridge. Came across as a clever way to use up previous popular dishes, but fell a bit flat at times. The wine/soft drink flight was a huge £110 which consisted of only 3 alcoholic drinks and a few soft. Was really not worth the money so skip this if you can. Was disappointed to be one of the first few diners in and to be sat right next to another couple who were served everything just before us, so we never had that element of surprise! This could have been avoided so simply by sitting us at the other end of the room. Waitress was so loud introducing the dishes that we couldn’t switch off from hearing all about what we hadn’t yet had. It’s a little detail but one that was frustrating. So ask to move if you arrive early as there were not enough customers at this point to mask the noise. So in conclusion, go if you’ve never been, returnees wait until a brand new menu is launched.More

I have always loved Heston and his philosophy and managed, after months of trying, to obtain a table to celebrate our nuptials... it was a minimoon weekend. We arrived at 12:45pm on the Saturday and were there for nearly four hours of pure culinary and...gastronomic magic. Every morsel was just amazing, wow factor every time. This isn’t just a meal it’s a multi-sensory experience. We counted eleven courses in total (we think) and have sat down with the booklet to reminisce and show family and friends many times. We had the 25th year anniversary version of ‘The Journey’. Many of Heston’s iconic dishes were showcased within the menu and it was just superb. The staff were knowledgable and professional... the first course being poached at the table in liquid nitrogen, eaten in one go from the spoon, and disappears on the tongue before you can swallow it! The restaurant and facilities are cosy and clean. I would wholeheartedly recommend The Fat Duck, but I doubt they need my recommendation... I will be back. Thank you Heston and the team.More

I went here tonight for my wife’s birthday and I’m very sad to say that I was totally underwhelmed with the food and service for a 3 Michelin star restaurant, and I had taken the Covid restrictions into consideration before I arrived. I deliberately kept...away from the “wine pairing” and instead ordered a couple of bottles of wine that we liked but, getting the chance to drink them was a mission in itself as they take the bottles away from the table and then get totally distracted so forget to top you up....The food was no more than average for a one star restaurant so I’m not sure where they got the other two stars from.....If you read other reviews that will say “it’s amazing” and if you believe that, then more fool you.....Heston, I’m very sorry to say this but, you either need to take back control of your restaurant or face the inevitable.More

Second visit 10 years apart and lovely to re visit some courses we had tried previously. You never know what to expect but I think most people would be aware the food is not going to be "normal fare" and should not be surprised at...unusual flavours etc. Loved the dessert I won't give anything away.More

My husband and I visited the Fat Duck 2 years ago during their Storytime menu and it was the best restaurant/food experience of my life. We've been itching to go back ever since and just after our honeymoon my husband booked another trip, this time...with my parents. There was a stark difference between this visit and the last and I must say I'm really disappointed, having waited 2 years for them to change the menu so we could go back. 60% of the menu was exactly what we'd eaten last time, none of the personal touches were included and there was at least 4 courses less than we enjoyed of which I include the drinks pairing. There didn't seem to be a Sommelier and the drinks menu itself was vastly reduced, including things like the special coffee menu was not there. The coffee experience we had the first time around was exceptional and I will always remember the story that the gentleman told us as he was careful grinding the beans. I'm guessing this is a Covid impact and that there was likely staff on Furlough and I understand that we paid a little less than 2yrs prior but they've stripped back too much in my opinion and I was just expecting more. We were asked a number of times if we were celebrating anything special, which we were, and yet nothing was actually done... If we hadn't been asked I wouldn't have minded but we were and therefore it set an expectation. I don't know if this will put me off going again, the first experience was so good I think this will go down in my memory as just another bad Covid experience, but I just wish they'd done just that bit more. It's still an exceptional amount of money and I just can't right now shake off this feeling of being let down...More