is the fat duck that good?
my friends said it was ok
and said the experience is better then the food
Your friend is right. Great place to go once, menu barely ever changed so you need a long time between to go the second time. Food still decent but the experience is really good, the first time anyway.
A good pal of mine did a load of work on a land deal for a client who promised to take my friend and the lawyer to the Fat Duck if the deal went well, which it did.
They turned up for lunch and go for the tasting menu but chose the cheapest wine match option from the waiter. He then went for a piss and the lawyer beckons the waiter back over and says they have changed their mind and would opt for the spunkier wines with every course.
They lunch for about 4 hours and throughout the poor guy keeps saying how nice the wines were and how happy he was not wasting money on the expensive list. The bill arrived for £2.4k. He was about to flip out but looked to see his two dining buddies just crying laughing.