oursin | I'm not sure I ever want to eat there again, even though I love game (Reply)

From the restaurant group that gave you the very tasteless promotional offer in August:

Our menus have always been inspired by seasonal produce such as using the very best game, cooked simply to allow the product to speak for itself.

Every November... some of our senior chefs travel to the Czech Republic to hunt for deer and wild boar deep in the vast forests.*

All the game, which comprises of a variety of roe, sika, red and fallow deer, as well as wild boar, is transported straight back to London in our chiller van for our chefs across the group to bring to the tables of our restaurants.

It's hard to be chest-beatingly macho and excruciatingly poncey simultaneously, but I think they've managed it.

I do think the whole seasonality thing is about the seasons where you happen to be rather than the vast forests of Central Europe.

*Alack that the forests in the Czech Republic appear to lack a population of Common Brown Bears - we know they're common on account of their excretory habits and their practice of 'eavin 'alf a brick at strangers... Otherwise, if our noble restaurateurs went down to the woods today, they'd be sure of a big surprise.