The Fat Duck Heston Blumenthal $900 (£650) 3 Stars Michelin Fine Dining 25 Years Celebration Course

I just did some reading after seeing this to see if I could find out how much the fat duck costs to run and how much money it actually makes (not a huge amount, as it turns out), and found out that the mechanical sweet shop thing cost £150,000! No wonder the prices are so high!!!

I saved $895 by eating my frozen pork bun and making my own green tea while watching this episode

I have worked at FD and all I can say is the dedication and the measurement of times is beyond your imagination. It is like a show in a theater but with food. You can not make mistakes because then all the stations will slow down and everyone must eat at correct times. There are cameras and people are watching customer's satisfcation . I was blessed to be part of the team back at 2019 -2020 and I am still happy to see FD evolving without losing the destination.

I'll be honest - when they pulled out a centrepiece for the 'walk in the woods' and started explaining what it was supposed to represent, my eyes nearly rolled out of their sockets.

Marco Pierre white described modern 3* experience as a series of canapés where you spend your evening talking to the waiter - seems accurate 😢

I would have believed somebody if they said this was satire.

0:14 I love how Heston tells you which year he started preparing each of the dishes - the fact that they take years, sometimes decades, to prepare is a testament to his dedication!

At least they have the decency of providing their guests with magnifying glasses so they can see the microscopic portions!!!

I feel like I’m watching ingredients that have had the life processed out of them. Not one dish conjured any association with an actual foodstuff. More like watching an elegant science experiment.

most of these dishes made me think of squidward when he says “we serve food here sir” 😂

Dining with the waiters is probably new normal. Food looks good though.

I couldn’t deal with this I love going to a restaurant ordering my food and actually getting too talk to my partner without being interrupted every 5 mins food looks lovely though

Yes it’s pretentious and over the top.. but life is too short to not splurge on experiences like this once in awhile with someone you love. It sucks the closest Michelin star restaurant to me is thousands of miles away but I hope someday to dine like this. I absolutely love fine dining. The fanciest restaurant I’ve ever dined at was in Vegas at that Eiffel Tower restaurant. It was very fancy and I literally had the best tasting meal I’ve ever had, but even that place didn’t get this fancy. However, it wasn’t anywhere near as expensive. I went with some friends and their were 8 of us and the entire bill with tip was around $3,000. I seriously had the best steak in the WORLD there. The filet minion. It was incredible.

I’ll stick with the dinner I cooked today: a £3.50 whole roast chicken from Asda, some Aunt Bessie’s roasts, minted peas and Bisto gravy 👍

Glad to see that the Fat Duck is as popular as ever. I don't see Heston on TV anymore so I like to rewatch his shows here on YT

Not a pleasant room to eat in though... quite unwelcoming.

If food is telling stories about chef's past, influences, skills, ideas, then this specific menu was a fairytale.

For 3 star Michelin I’m surprised with the amount of noisemakers and minimal privacy

What a gaggle of rich people sounds like.

Seems like a pretty worthwhile life experience imo. You can't take your money with you why not create some memories with it. I remember doing an 8 course tasting memory 20yrs ago.