What up Food Tubers? Okay, so I'm at Barbecoa. It's a beautiful, beautiful restaurant of mine in
St. Paul's, London.
And it's really weird, right, Barbecoa is essentially about meat and fire, but when it comes to dessert,
this is Ed Loftus ("Hello everybody"), he is our executive pastry chef here at Barbecoa.
It's 'What am I eating today?' , so Ed, it looks incredible. I mean, look at that.
("At Barbecoa we like to do all the classics really and then put a little twist on them. So, this is lemon
meringue pie. So it's all about the lemon and we got blackcurrant,
and we got a beautiful blackcurrant curd, and that's sitting on top of a really crunchy vanilla shortbread.
And then we just top that with beautiful little meringue peaks, toasted those off with a blow-torch,
and we've got a really bitter, sharp lemon gel").
So should I? ("Go for it, do it"). I really, I think Ed's right, we kinda like to have fun with classics, and then
pimp the ride.
("It's all about nostalgia. It's gotta sing to people. Its gotta make people think of those flavors from their childhood,
and lemon meringue pie for me at school, we always had it. You know, every Friday
was sort of lemon meringue pie day. So this still makes you think of that").
("This is, this is a bit tongue-in-cheek. We're playing on nostalgia here, it's called Snickers Sphere.")
("So all those beautiful components") Ohhhh! Hahahah, oh my lord.
("So we've taken everyone's sort of, well my favourite chocolate bar which is Snickers, and we've put it into a
frozen dessert. So we've got layers of peanut praline, we've got layers of chocolate parfait, we've got vanilla
parfait, we've got liquid caramel, we've got sea salt, and we just tried to create all those memories
that I have of a Snickers bar, but just a little bit more grown up").
Can I just say, has your missus tried this by the way? ("She hasn't yet, no.
On the side we'v got a bit of butter-milk sorbet, just to cut through it all a little bit.
It's the best selling dessert in Barbecoa, I mean people rave about this"). They do. I haven't tasted this before,
and that is in my top five desserts of all time. ("Wow"). That is a phenomenal bit of work.
There is a lot of work gone into that. Well done mate. That's kinda recalibrated my expectations on chocolate desserts now. Memories.