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Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons ("Four Seasons Manor", a.k.a. Le Manoir) is a luxury hotel-restaurant in the village of
Great Milton Great Milton is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Oxfordshire, about east of Oxford. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 1,042. The School Great Milton church of England primar ...
near
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, in
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, England. It is situated in a 15th-century
manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...
, near a church that was visited by
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, In March 2014 the company owning the restaurant introduced a new brand name, Belmond and the hotel changed its name to "Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons". In December 2018 Belmond was acquired by
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.


Description

The restaurant has two
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s, as well as scoring 9/10 in the ''
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.'' It is capable of serving 260 guests per day. It is owned by LVMH (since acquiring Belmond Ltd in December 2018) and run by the leading French chef
Raymond Blanc Raymond Blanc OBE (born 19 November 1949) is a French chef. Blanc is the chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the ''Good Food Guid ...
. The executive chef is Luke Selby, having replaced Gary Jones who left the role in November 2022, after over 20 years. The head pastry chef is Benoit Blin. The gardens are used to grow fresh food for the restaurant. A
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is available for clients. The restaurant was used as a filming location in the
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television programme '' The Restaurant'', where it has been used for challenges as well as Raymond Blanc's "room of truth". The restaurant kitchen has trained 34 Michelin starred chefs. Its basic training programs for its chefs lasts approximately 2.5 years, with each chef spending 6 months on each "section" in the kitchen. Chefs who stay longer than the initial 2.5 years of training go on to learn the management side of the business.


Chefs trained at Le Manoir

Many notable chefs and restaurateurs were mentored by or worked for Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir, including: *
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*
Heston Blumenthal Heston Marc Blumenthal (; born 27 May 1966) is an English celebrity chef, TV personality and food writer. His restaurants include the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, a three- Michelin-star restaurant that was named the world's best by the Worl ...
*
Michael Caines Michael Andrew Caines (born 3 January 1969) is an English chef born in Exeter, Devon. He was head chef of Gidleigh Park in Devon until January 2016. He is currently the chef owner of the Lympstone Manor hotel between Exeter and Exmouth, whic ...
*
Elisha Carter Elisha Carter (born 6 October 1969) is a British chef who appeared in the BBC television series Great British Menu in 2008. He is Head Chef at ''The Landau'' restaurant located in The Langham, London. Biography Carter was born in North London, ...
*
Éric Chavot Éric Chavot (born 1967) is a French Michelin starred chef. He was working the head chef at the Bob Bob Cité and Bob Bob Ricard restaurants in London until January 2020, as well as the consultant chef at the Royal Albert Hall's Coda restaurant. ...
*
William Curley William Curley (born 29 October 1971) is a Scottish patissier and chocolatier. Curley is the owner of the London chocolate company William Curley Ltd., and has won the Academy of Chocolate's 'Britain's Best Chocolatier' Award four times. In 20 ...
*
David Goodridge David Goodridge, is the Chef de Cuisine of the venerable Gaddi's restaurant at the Peninsula Hong Kong hotel. He joined Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in Oxfordshire, England, owned by one of the world's finest chef ...
*
Paul Heathcote Paul Heathcote MBE (born 3 October 1960) is a chef, restaurateur and food consultant who spent two years under the guidance of Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons. He has appeared on many UK food television shows. Heathcote is one of ...
*
Paul Liebrandt Paul Liebrandt is a British chef and restaurateur. He was the co-owner of Corton restaurant in New York City and the subject of the documentary film, '' A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt''. Liebrandt is known for his daring cuisine, ...
*
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*
Marco Pierre White Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. In 1995 he became the youngest chef to earn three Michelin stars. He has trained chefs including Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Gordon Ramsa ...
* James Knight-Pacheco


Reception

Restaurant critic
Jay Rayner Jason Matthew Rayner (born 14 September 1966) is a British journalist and food critic. He has worked as a freelance journalist for newspapers including ''The Observer'' and ''The Independent on Sunday.'' He was the ''Observer'' restaurant criti ...
visited Le Manoir for the first time in 2013. Whilst he described it as possibly the most expensive restaurant in Britain, he praised the set up including the kitchen garden. Regarding the food, he praised a "pitch-perfect"
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terrine Terrine may refer to: * Terrine (cookware), a vessel for cooking a forcemeat loaf * Terrine (food) A terrine (), in traditional French cuisine, is a loaf of forcemeat or aspic, similar to a pâté, that is cooked in a covered pottery mold (a ...
, which was served with a
horseradish Horseradish (''Armoracia rusticana'', syn. ''Cochlearia armoracia'') is a perennial plant of the family Brassicaceae (which also includes Mustard plant, mustard, wasabi, broccoli, cabbage, and radish). It is a root vegetable, cultivated and us ...
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. He wondered at the skill involved in creating a dessert of poached
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and fried
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inside a globe of nougatine. He said that while he couldn't justify or excuse the expense, the meal was fabulous.


Public transport

Since June 2022, Le Manoir has subsidised a bus service between Great Milton and central Oxford.
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route 46 links the village with central Oxford via Wheatley,
Horspath Horspath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about east of the centre of Oxford, England. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,378. Archaeology The parish's western boundary largely follows the course of a Roma ...
and Cowley. Buses run hourly, seven days a week, from early morning until after midnight.


References


External links


Official website
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