The Northern Line being ****ed up the shítter meaning I had to get an Uber there and back was bad enough, but then I followed Sir Charlie’s extravagant and frankly beyond my means food & beverage recommendations
Guinness and Champagne cocktail (a silly novelty drink containing two things that should never be combined)
3 Native Oysters
Grouse with game chips, cabbage, bread sauce and redcurrant jelly
Bread and butter pudding with armagnac and prunes
The House Claret
A top, top meal Wichard, although I do wonder about the merits of game. Being a dark meat, grouse is one of the more flavourful but I'm still not sure why you'd ever eat it ahead of beef or pork. It's just not that interesting.
Grouse. Good choice, mostly because it's the sort of thing you would never make yourself but is - apparently - delicious if done properly.
Thing with game is that the strong flavor allows you to use the trimmings to make utterly delicious sauces. My pheasant and venison jus are both quite wonderful. But the meat, unless perfectly sourced and perfectly cooked just isn't all that, as you point out. I made venison at the weekend however the butcher had aged it too much and it had a very unpleasant, dry, livery taste which overrode my delicious jus.
I tried grouse just once and didn't get the cooking right. Would have been exactly what I would have ordered at Rules, though. Would have asked them to hold the bread sauce, what with it being utterly heinous.