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Experience The Fable Tree menu in a unique and immersive way. The Top Seat is an individual seat positioned at the top of the pass at The Fat Duck in Bray. Watch our chefs bring together the iconic dishes that make up The Fable Tree - listen, learn and chat to them to find out all the secrets that go into making the menus at our iconic three Michelin starred restaurant. The Top Seat during the festive period is priced at £750pp - inclusive of drinks pairing and service charge. Come along and drop into the rabbit hole that is The Fat Duck in Bray, England and secure a ticket for the Top Seat - the best seat in the house.

We invite you to join us for the journey of a lifetime with the release of our January and February 2027 tickets. If you are looking to ward away the New Year blues, The Fat Duck will transform gloom into glee. "The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped it into his cup of tea."

International Coffee Day takes place today and we take coffee at The Fat Duck very seriously.

It has such a powerful hold on my memory because every Sunday my sister and I would be dragged to Church Street Market near Marylebone by our grandmother. Although it was only the early 1970s, it now feels like another age. Among the stalls of bric-à-brac there were even rag-and-bone men selling things from horse and carts.

Archives 2003, Heston Blumenthal for The Guardian Our mind play tricks on us when faced with certain flavour combinations or foods, says Heston Blumenthal, not least because we've been taught not to eat them that way. But what if that means we're denying ourselves a real treat? You know how, when you chew on a piece of chewing gum, it loses its flavour after about 10 minutes? Well, I have got news for you. The chewing gum hasn't lost its flavour. You have. If you take the gum out of your mouth and leave it on one side for about 40 minutes, then eat something else and start chewing the gum again, you'll find that it tastes much as it did when you first started. The fact is that your brain has got bored with tasting the same old flavour, and just ceased to register it. We register the rate of change of flavour more than the flavour itself. This is the reason why, if we eat a plate of food of uniform flavour, we become bored.

Whenever we eat, the poor brain has a fair amount of work to do just to process the data and then let us know if we like a particular food. What makes that food acceptable or otherwise is a complicated issue, because it raises so many emotions and memories, and may even call into question firm beliefs.

Thirty years of questioning everything. Thirty years of culinary exploration and extraordinary moments at the dining table. Heston’s journey began when he was 16, when he went to the three-star L’Oustau de Baumanière and was bowled over by its theatricality and multisensory richness. He began visiting France every summer, translating French cookbooks word by word and cooking the classics over and over.

The Fat Duck at Bray Cottages offers a tailored, unforgettable experience. Stay in the luxurious Lavender House in Bray, then indulge in a bespoke Fat Duck dinner and wine flight in the comfort of the cottage, served by Fat Duck chefs. Complete with a thoughtfully curated breakfast hamper filled with everything you need to enjoy a relaxed morning, this is the ultimate gastro-moment, designed to make your culinary journey last even longer, and crafted to perfection. Your perfection.